THE SIMPSONS NEWS

Well, I’m on hiatus now. What really sucks about that is the fact that, last week, they had told me they were going to keep me until Wednesday in case they needed me. This pretty much meant that I was going to have three more days worth of pay and I probably wasn’t going to have a lot of work to do. On Friday around three o’clock I was told that I wasn’t going to stay and that It was my last day that day…yeah…that really stunk. Not only that, but none of my paper work was done so I didn’t even get my last paycheck that day so now I have to do the paperwork at home and so far I haven’t received it.

Over all, I was a bit heartbroken…but it turned out very Providential that this happened because of what happened with my…

FAMILY

My daughter got my wife, son and me sick last week. I just had a sore throat, no big deal, I seem to always have one anyway. My son had the sniffles and a small cough (poor little baby), but my wife…she got the flu. On Wednesday of last week, around 3:00 a.m., my wife woke up shivering, wondering why it was so cold. The temperature in the house was 80 Fahrenheit. It wasn’t exactly cold. I called in sick that day in order to take care of my wife, but more importantly the kids since they didn’t have a baby sitter I couldn’t leave them with anyone in such short notice.

My wife got better as the day went by. The next day, I went to work, and left the boy with my wife (who stayed home again) and I took Munchkin to her Godmother’s house (Carolina). Later, my mom left work a little early, picked up the Munchkin, and went to our house to help my wife. By the time I got home, my wife was feeling well enough to go to work the next day, and so she did. Perhaps it was a good idea, perhaps not, she ended up feeling sick again that night, and not only that, but she lost her voice from talking so much at the school. I spent the entire weekend taking care of a wife who seemed to be getting worse and that couldn’t talk to me. Friday night she couldn’t stop coughing for a good hour. It was awful. It made her throw up. My son, who seemed to be getting better one day, would get worse the next, and my daughter…she’s just a big ball of energy. She’s almost always a handful, even with a very cough that only showed up once a day.

Saturday night my wife had another coughing fit. I was doing everything I could do to make her feel as well as possible. My wife went through lots of lemons and honey. She coughed so much, she got a headache. Sunday was the worst day because around 2:00 a.m., she woke up with a fever. Fortunately, it was gone by seven o’clock that morning. The boy, got sicker that night. He didn’t want to eat and he cried a lot. He was coughing up a storm. My wife, on the other hand, had a really good night that night. She was feeling much, much better.

Monday came and everyone was still sick. The boy woke up with a dry throat and he cried every time he coughed. We remedied the situation quick and made a doctor’s appointment for him, just to make sure he was okay (by “okay” I mean, that he didn’t have more then just a cold). The appointment was for that day. I quickly went to the store to buy food (we were running out), and then I took the boy to the doctor who told me he only had a cold and then he gave me some advice as to how to treat it. It was good piece of mind.

My wife was feeling a lot better that day and her voice had returned. She was up (even though I advised her not to be). She wanted to be up. By the end of the day, she was feeling well enough to go to work the next day and so she did. She went to work because, since she is only a part time teacher at her school, she doesn’t get payed sick days (she’s our only source of income). It went okay for her but she’s still sick and she had a bad night that night. The next day she went to the doctor to find out why. The doctor told her she had a bad case of the flu and gave her some antibiotics. As of the time of this writing, she’s still sick. Hopefully, with the help of the antibiotics, she will finally start getting better.

MY WEEK

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Sounds bad. It’ll be time to do something soon. Better get ready. I’ll keep you posted.

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