Today I am thankful for antibiotics! Somehow, apparently I caught strep throat, I’m guessing at school. I got sick the day before my birthday, October 15th. A friend of ours had told us awhile back if we had a sore throat to take some Advil, so I took Advil and figured since it felt better I was fine. After about a week I felt ok-ish, but then last week my daughter was complaining she was sick and her throat really hurt. I offered several times to make her a doctors appointment, however she wouldn’t agree to go to one until the third day she was sick. Off we went to the Urgent Care because her doctor was booked and surprised she was when she tested positive for strep! Fast forward to this week and my husband starts feeling sick yesterday. Since our daughter has strep I convinced him not to wait and to go in to check, Bingo! He tested positive for strep. We went to go get some soup after his test and he asked how I was feeling and I said that I was still feeling tired and on the sick side and then he said, “Maybe we should get you checked to”, so off I went back to the Urgent Care and viola after telling the doctor I just wanted to make sure I didn’t have it, he said, “Well I’m sorry but you tested positive.” I said, “Are you sure, I got sick two weeks ago and I feel mostly better.” He said, ” You might have gotten better but then since you never took antibiotics, you probably re-infected yourself with your toothbrush or it just came back around to you after your daughter got sick.” So today, I’m thankful for something called a z-pack, because I’m actually allergic to the antibiotic most commonly given to treat strep, penicillin and all it’s relatives.

I’m also thankful to report that our family member actually woke up from her coma! Praise be Jesus Christ, she woke up! She is home and recovering from her ordeal, a little on the wobbly side but it is a far cry from being on life support and being declared basically brain dead. Miracles still happen and I’m glad one happened for her, it makes me happy. Though sometimes, part of me wonders why for some people and not others, not us, but that is not for us to “reason why” it would just drive me crazy if I even tried. So I’m thankful for big miracles today!

Nice weather. The weather has been so nice, not too hot, not too cold. I can still wear a t-shirt if I want to or put on a sweatshirt if I want to and it’s crisp and chilly in the morning for our runs, my favorite weather for running. The sky is blue with little white wisps of cloud floating around. There may be something blowing in our way and this time of year, rain is always nice too!

So today for antibiotics, miracles, and nice weather…I Give Thanks!

Ran yesterday but not today, for some reason my body did not want to rise and go for a run, but hopefully tomorrow. Signing up for our annual Turkey Trot today, so that will be a fun run to look forward to, our long run Saturday was 5miles because I have been sick, but that’s ok, well get back to it…KOR