Well... the Twins weekend has come and gone. What a crazy bookend to a hard, physically, emotionally and spiritually draining week... yowzers! I have to laugh (for fear of crying) about just how nutzo life can get, how when you feel like you've had enough dumped on you, you don't actually crumble when you're handed more. I have come to experience many times that my Lord is good to do whatever it takes to bring me to the foot of the cross.My week started with answered prayer, though the delivery was rough. Mid-way though the week had the worst day at work I can remember. Had already taken a vacation day for Friday (God's provision starts to make sense here and continues quite remarkably) Even if I hadn't taken vacation Friday, I couldn't have functioned at work because I had the WORST aches of my life, was incredibly fatigued and running a temp for sure. Had lunch with a good friend b/c we needed to catch up, though that lunch turned out to be harder than fighting a temperature and body-aches.
We (Cass, Katie and I) left for the Cities about 4ish on Friday - Cass drove b/c I was in no state to drive my own vehicle. Spent the entire ride (yes, from Fargo to Plymouth, from Plymouth to my mom's in Apple Valley) in a state of la-la-land and crashed. Saturday, awoke still feeling as though I were hit by a bus and still tired having not slept more than 4 hours (fever!). Breakfast with Carolyn early then Kim came! But I felt bad b/c I couldn't really engage in intelligent conversation... I tried to make the best of the Saturday game (but I wasn't very good company for those around me, still in la-la-land) Saturday night was mislerable again (very little sleep, do you ever feel so crappy that you're emotional and sick and just hope you'll feel better if you cry? Well, that's what poor-sobbing mess my mother got to deal with at 5am. I cannot tell you how blessed I was to be at home)
Sunday proved interesting. No church, needed sleep and I know Jesus:) Debated over whether or not to go the game at call but figured for the good of the schedule and my fan-status, I'd brave it. They won! The ride home was equally awful (chattered and sweat to death the entire way home - thank God for Katie's willingness to drive us back to Moorhead)
Yes, reached home ok... only to call the Ask-A-Nurse hotline after running a 102+ temp for at least 3 days. That phone call wasn't pleasant (the symptoms sound like meningitis, SCARY word) Called Beth (a wonderful friend/neighbor) who graciously took me to the emergency room, which was a first for me. After maybe a hour and a half of questions, poking, peeing and waiting... the doc ruled out meningitis, bladder/kidney infection and landed on a good 'ol VIRUS! Yup, I'm contagious until this stupid fever breaks (don't remember sweating or shivering this much in my life and I grew up in Minnesota winters) I just have to wait, bored and frustrated since I'm missing work but there's little I can do... so I'll wait...
All in all, it has been good to see the Lord's provision last week/weekend. There were timing things, schedule/people things that worked out just as they needed to in order to give the little rest I got this weekend midst the hustle of being home and 2 Twins games. So... Praise God, he is GOOD all the time!
