bleh.

Elijah was without a fever for another 24 hours and then during the night last night it came back for the 4th time in a week.  So this morning we took him back to the hospital to be checked out.  The pediatric doctor (a nice friendly girl from Edinburgh!) listened to his chest and said that he seems to have a chest infection.  She prescribed him an antibiotic and hopefully from here on out he'll be on the mend.  Later in the afternoon he perked up a bit and was playing around the house again, which was good to see.  Poor little guy, this is the first time since he had his "well baby" check up at 6 weeks old (the stupidest thing ever... why should I take my perfectly healthy child into a germ-ridden doctor's office so he can be poked and prodded and then proclaimed healthy and I can be patronized and treated like an imbecile first-time mother in the process?) that he's ever been to a doctor AND the first time he's ever been on an antibiotic!  Sniff.

Ketzia has developed a cough, too, and is full of sniffles.  I'm keeping a close eye on her and we're praying that she fights off this bug before it gets any worse.

An excerpt from an email to my mom tonight: "David and I are both utterly exhausted but, as usual, we're just frantically shifting from one urgent thing to the next, and every day is as frantic and packed full as it can possibly be.  Nothing is simple... for instance, this afternoon David went to take off the canopy from our truck bed so that he can pick up furniture on Monday. In the process (which should be a simple matter of unlatching and then lifting up the canopy and setting it down on the ground) he discovered that the truck company wired the rear brake light on the canopy through the canopy, so in order to remove the canopy he had to cut the cables and he will have to reattach them with electrical tape later!!  What should have been a few minutes' work turned into more than an hour.  Also we've discovered there's a problem with the plumbing in the guest room so now we have to get the plumber to come Monday morning... and our guest is arriving Monday night!" 


There's more, trust me, there's lots more.  But I will stop there.  It's been a really hard, distressing week in a lot of ways.  It's tempting to let it all get to me, become overwhelming.  But that wouldn't be living in faith according to the truth of Psalm 46 which we've been dwelling a lot on recently: "God is our refuge and our strength, a very present help in trouble... the Lord of hosts is with us, the God of Jacob is our refuge."  There is much to take comfort in there!  And a very timely reminder that people will fail us and we will be faced with many difficulties, but in the midst of it, we should "be still and know that He is God."