Flu: 1, Bekah: 0

Whew. That was unexpected!!

Two mornings ago, I woke up with a bit of a sore throat. Maddening, but not altogether surprising since Ryan has been fighting a cold since New Year's and pretty much all his co-workers have been sick with some version of the same thing too.

But then 2:30 in the afternoon came and went and I realized I'd missed my 2:30 snack. Worse, I realized I didn't care. Whoa. Stop the world. Bekah missed food and doesn't care? This is serious.

By the time Ryan got home, I didn't care about anything at all. We were supposed to go grocery shopping, but he told me to just give him the list and go rest on the couch. I didn't even have the energy to argue.

He even found a rotisserie chicken and some soup while he was out so we could have something to eat when he got home! And ice cream. Because ice cream fixes everything.

It was a long, long evening. I had a fever, horrible chills, and at one point, my skin hurt so much that I kind of wanted to just peel it all off.

It's not weird for me to get a cold every winter, but it IS weird for me to get anything that resembles the flu. It's been a long, long time since something like that hit me!

I tried to sleep in bed, but I was so restless that I came out to the couch for the second half of the night. When morning came, it seemed my fever was down, but I was so wiped out that I couldn't keep my eyes open. And I didn't even want coffee. WHOA.

Ryan called me in sick for carpool duty and went to work, and by lunchtime, I had a grand total of 241 steps on my Fitbit. (That's bad news when you're on a weeklong insurance challenge for 12,000 steps a day.)

I tried to rest well all day, getting up a couple of times to get in those pesky 12,000 steps. (That wore me out, by the way.) I read 100 pages of The Long Winter, which I feel is the story of our January. I did my devos and watched a lot of DVR'd shows.

A thousand husbandly points to Ryan for taking care of me (and the house, since I've been a housewife failure while down for the count) for the past couple of days. I'm not what I'd call well yet, but I do feel better. If I could remember to REST a bit better, I'm sure that would move along more quickly! :)