Sick in Texas

It is now Thursday night. I've been sick since Monday night. That's a long time to be sick with the stomach flu! Especially in a place I love! Now I say it's just a flu bug I caught but Gwen begs to differ. She does think it's a bug and I did catch it but not the flu. Saturday while I was giving a tour I hopped over this wood fence to talk to my group, like every other tour I give. Unlike every other tour I didn't hop high enough because I scraped my leg on the fence. I didn't think any thing of it, I must admit I'm a bit clumsy and get scratched up all the time, and continued talking about that particular animal. One of group members on my tour raised her hand and told me I was bleeding. That wasn't new news to me either. I often get little scratches that turn red and bleed for a sec and then it's fine. When she told me I started examining my arms and fingers and didn't see anything. It didn't even occur to me that it was my leg that I had caught on the fence that was bleeding! I didn't think I had hit it hard enough, but apparently I had. It was gushing blood and it looked pretty bad.  I went and fixed it up and continued the rest of the day. I had to change my band aides three times within a couple hours because it was bleeding so much. (I am going somewhere with this story I promise) We thought I may even have to go get stitches because it was bleeding so much and because it was such a long cut. Well by that night it had stopped bleeding, thank goodness, and scabbed over.

The next day Kim took me to this beautiful creek that runs near here house. It was shallow and slow moving so we spent a good couple of hours walking down stream and then walking back up stream in it. I do have to say it was very strange to step into the creek and not have it be freezing cold like all the water is in Logan! When we had our fill of playing in the water we went back to Kim's place and I was sure to change my band aides and wash my cut so it was nice and clean. (this is the point of the whole story) Well Gwen is convinced that I caught something from the creek, through my cut, which I guess could have not completely scabbed over. It could happened. But whatever. Anyway it happened here I am... sick.

 All of Tuesday and Wednesday I spent upstairs, in the dark, sleeping and puking and that's about it. Today I felt much better, like a person again. The only thing was I was really tired. After not eating anything except Saltines and Sprite for the past three days I had no energy! But I couldn't stay upstairs any longer. I was going crazy. The cats were driving me up the wall and I needed some fresh air. And fresh air I got :) I took my book and water out to the patch to read and get some sun! It was a beautiful day and I loved being out there! (ps I was reading Catching Fire the second book in the Hunger Games Series. I just finished it and I liked it! I still like the first book the best but this on was still good! Thank you to Katie and Jolynn for letting me borrow them). So I'm sitting out there reading for maybe two, three hours. I get my fill of the sun and feel tired again so I go inside. Now I did remember to put sunscreen on my face AND my arms but it never occurred to me to put it on my legs. I have never gotten sunburned on my legs. I'm never sitting down so the sun is shining directly on my legs to burn them. Well today I was and my poor white, logan-winter legs got sunburned.

And on my way back from the patch I stopped to help Sassy with her winter hair again. I didn't have a brush so I was just pulling it off of her. She still has a lot that needs to come off. We left a trail today.