Eight Legged Friends

It all started about a week ago when I noticed a knot in the back of my neck.  I kept rubbing at it, it hurt, but it didn't really go away.  I asked Ron what he thought it was and we both decided that it wasn't a tumor, so I should be fine :o)

Fast forward to Wednesday.  I am sitting at work when my stomach starts to itch, so I scratch it.  Then, it starts to move around to my back and becomes almost unbearable.  So, I go into the restroom where I discover that almost my entire body is covered in itchy hives.  I pop a couple of Benadryl and make it through the day.  I head over to the quick care place after work, since I hadn't eaten anything out of the ordinary, used any different soaps, or anything that would cause an allergic reaction.  I mainly wanted to make sure that it wasn't anything contagious.  Dr. says, just keep taking Benadryl every 4-6 hours for the next few days, you will be fine!  Perfect.

Fast Forward to Friday.  I wake up with the hives still in full effect, but now, all of my extremities feel like they are asleep.  I am tingling, itchy, and so swollen that I can hardly get my shoes on.  Ok, so now is when I am thinking that this might be something more than just an allergic reaction to something still unknown.  So, I decide to call our regular Dr. and see what they have to say about it.  I was told to get in there as soon as I could.

I head into the Dr. and they start trying to figure out what is going on.  And, I don't know why, but I mentioned that little knot on my neck and how annoying it was.  So, she checked it out and low and behold....a spider bite.  One little spider, that I never saw, one little "knot" on my neck, caused all of this discomfort and irritation!  I guess it was lucky that I said something because then they could treat it correctly.  My hives have gone away considerably and my arms and legs are feeling fairly normal today.  We bug-bombed our house tonight, after realizing what the culprit to my illness was. 

It just gives me the willies to know I was cuddling up with something like this:

I'm Back!!

So, I have been down and out for a whole week now.  Last Tuesday I came down with something terrible.  I had a fever of 102.6°F, cold chills, an awful sore throat, and I couldn't keep any food down.  Needless to say, I didn't really get out of bed for almost an entire week.  It was not pretty. 

But, I was pretty happy because it seemed that I had managed to keep it to myself. Wrong.  On Friday, Braison's temperature started rising and he started coughing and refusing to eat.  So, we shipped Lilian off to my dad's house for the weekend, hoping to keep her out of the loop.  On Sunday, Ron started complaining of a sore throat and his temperature started rising as well.

When Lilian came home on Sunday evening, she was really cuddly and didn't want to do much of anything.  Alas, her temperature had skyrocketed by bedtime.

So, at least Momma was on the upward swing of things by the time that it hit the rest of the family. 

Right now, we are just all trying to survive this crud.