illness

This week Mark and I had a health scare with Sydney. She is okay and she will be fine. Nothing that cannot be managed and it's nothing that is affecting her daily activities. But, when we were in the throes of the crisis...I just cannot describe the fear that I felt. Everything else fell aside. Nothing else really mattered. If any harm should come to my child, my only child, what would I do?

As I'm sure you all know, the most helpful assistance in getting through hard times or illness is to surround yourself with friends and family. Sadly, I don't have any here in Vancouver. Thankfully, my friend Chris from Kingston, who I happen to believe might have been my brother in another life, sent out an email to all the friends he has in Vancouver and asked if someone would take pity on me and be my friend. A lovely woman named Georgie was the only one to answer that email.

Thankfully, I have something to keep my mind off my looming doctor appointments on Monday. My very first article, in print, has finally come out and arrived at my door. And I know that I have Chatelaine.com to thank.

My illness is taking it out of me and I'm finding that just keeping up with daily life is difficult. So much so, that I don't even want to clean.

So, no video this week because once again, I got sick. I had a wicked flu on Monday night that had me violently ill throughout the night. It took me a couple of days to recover from that. Not the best way to start the week, especially after suffering a series of migraines last week, including one on my birthday last Tuesday, the 10th.