Catching Up With the Curtis Family

Catching Up With the Curtis Family

Sunday, December 11, 2011

Pneumonia and Funerals...Not Fun!

This last week has been miserable to say the least! It started last Sunday when we found out that Mary's (my step-mom) mother, Dorothy, passed away. They lived in Iowa so I planned on making the trip with my dad and Max out to Iowa for the funeral services on Thursday and staying most of the weekend there. However, what I didn't realize was that I was going to get sick. I began feeling poorly on Monday, but suffered through work and everything else that I had going on for the week all the while just not feeling well. I took McKenna to school Thursday morning and left with my dad as soon as I returned home in the morning for our trek to Iowa. I decided to attempt a call to the doctor to see if he would call a prescription out to Iowa to hopefully help with the misery. He did call this prescription in, but it didn't help. I returned on Saturday evening and went to Redi-Med today. They did a chest x-ray and determined that there were spots on my lungs and I had the start of pneumonia. This explains why I have been feeling so exhausted and hurting in the chest area. So, I began three different antibiotics and an inhaler today. I have done nothing but sleep and take medicine today which is just what the doctor ordered! I hope to go back to school on Tuesday depending on how I am feeling.
Despite feeling poor, I manage to drag myself to the viewing and funeral. Such a sad event! Dorothy's humor and spunk will certainly be missed! We love and will miss you, Dorothy!
On a happy note, Doug got his 200th career girls victory on Friday evening! This is a great accomplishment. I, unfortunately, missed it as I was in Iowa. He is now only 10 games away from 300 wins with both boy and girls. Hopefully, he can get 10 more wins this year!