So the lack of blog posts actually may be valid this time. We returned from Las Vegas on Sunday night and John started to feel sick on Monday. At first he thought it was a bad cold, but quickly realized that it had to be the flu. He spent most of Tues, Wed and Thurs in our bedroom in the dark moaning while I went to work and packed up as much of our Maids office as possible. Thursday morning my body started to ache and I quickly got a fever. When I called the doctor and explained that John thought he had the flu, they suggested going to the Urgent Care for Tamiflu. We decided for him to go first so that if he tested positive, we could both get the Tamiflu. He did and because our Urgent Care is so wonderful, he just prescribed both of us an antibiotic, Tamiflu, and a cough syryp with coating to share. We went home and began our new medicine routine - 3 Advil, 2 Tylenol, 1 Mucinex, 1 antibiotic and 1 Tamiflu every 4 hours. Well, I guess the antibiotic and Tamilu were only twice a day and not every four hours.
Friday morning was moving day. Neither of us could move and had fevers. We decided to stay in bed until 2 pm. Pam and Haley down at work, helped move boxes over to the new office while we rested in the morning. We showed up by the afternoon, wearing gloves and masks. We moved items until 10 that night. Then Sat morning came and so did our movers. We still had to move a ton of smaller items to the new office while they moved the bigger items. I think on Sat we were there until 11. By Sunday, Caleb and Jonathan had fevers. They were coughing so hard they were throwing up a little too. We setup a triage center for Ashlyn and both headed down to work to unpack as much as we could to open on Monday morning. There are a lot of things that have to be working for a normal Maids day - like computers, networks, printing, supplies, drive 20 vans to the new location, and much more to list. We got most of it up and running to open on Monday!
By Monday morning, we were both dazed about what had been happening the last 48 hours. We knew we both were walking around completely drugged and with little voices, but were somehow making progress. Both younger boys were fever free, but still very sick with body aches, a wooping cough, and a horrible headache, which Ashlyn was helping to tend to. Joshua was starting to show symptoms by Monday night. The first day at the Maids new office, the plumbing backed up and one office was missing electricity, When the electrician left, we setup that office. The next day, we had to move that office furniture all out so the plumber could drill a huge hole in there to fix the plumbing problem. Tuesday was spent catching up on cleaning at home and planning for the next few days there. By Wed, Joshua was finally fever free, the plumbing problem was fixed and our 3 garage shelves were built. Theses all took hours to complete.
Now we are left with horrible coughs that cause some gagging and sometimes throwing up problems. An office that is about 3/4th of the way functional/unpacked. Only a water pressure problem that should soon be resolved by drilling up our conference room. And some pretty tired, but recovering owners. It should be interesting to see what happens after this weekend!
Friday morning was moving day. Neither of us could move and had fevers. We decided to stay in bed until 2 pm. Pam and Haley down at work, helped move boxes over to the new office while we rested in the morning. We showed up by the afternoon, wearing gloves and masks. We moved items until 10 that night. Then Sat morning came and so did our movers. We still had to move a ton of smaller items to the new office while they moved the bigger items. I think on Sat we were there until 11. By Sunday, Caleb and Jonathan had fevers. They were coughing so hard they were throwing up a little too. We setup a triage center for Ashlyn and both headed down to work to unpack as much as we could to open on Monday morning. There are a lot of things that have to be working for a normal Maids day - like computers, networks, printing, supplies, drive 20 vans to the new location, and much more to list. We got most of it up and running to open on Monday!
By Monday morning, we were both dazed about what had been happening the last 48 hours. We knew we both were walking around completely drugged and with little voices, but were somehow making progress. Both younger boys were fever free, but still very sick with body aches, a wooping cough, and a horrible headache, which Ashlyn was helping to tend to. Joshua was starting to show symptoms by Monday night. The first day at the Maids new office, the plumbing backed up and one office was missing electricity, When the electrician left, we setup that office. The next day, we had to move that office furniture all out so the plumber could drill a huge hole in there to fix the plumbing problem. Tuesday was spent catching up on cleaning at home and planning for the next few days there. By Wed, Joshua was finally fever free, the plumbing problem was fixed and our 3 garage shelves were built. Theses all took hours to complete.
Now we are left with horrible coughs that cause some gagging and sometimes throwing up problems. An office that is about 3/4th of the way functional/unpacked. Only a water pressure problem that should soon be resolved by drilling up our conference room. And some pretty tired, but recovering owners. It should be interesting to see what happens after this weekend!
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