Tuesday ~ Taking the good with the bad ~ a relapse has happened...

My Husband woke up looking and sounding worse.

It pretty much was 'official'... after a month of flu,

then substantial needing lots of medicine respiratory illness,

my poor sweet Husband, who was feeling a lot better towards

the end of last week, has a cold... 

We were both very tired this morning and napped...

I made lunch and was so happy to make a new pot

of Chicken Bone Broth for my ailing husband...

it was humming away and smelling up the house so nicely,

but then later it changed and I did not think right away

what and why and by the time I did,

the water had boiled out and it was in the beginning stages of burn...

I immediately turned off the burner and poured water into my poor

pretty red pot and the water turned smokey black...

I was fortunate that it was not smoking when I opened the pot!

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Later I called my Mother and told her about it

and she commented that once Oma (her Mom) 

almost burnt the house on Railroad Street down.

I must tell you the story so that it is not forgotten... 

My Oma, even back then, cleaned houses for others...

my Mom was probably in grade 8 and her old brother,

my Uncle H, was in grade 10.

My Oma was cooking soup bones on the stove

when she left to go clean house,

not realizing that the burner was set on 'High' instead of 

on 'Low', and when my Uncle H came back from school,

the smoke was so dense that he could not get to the phone 

that was in the hallway past the kitchen...

he had to go to the neighbours house to call the fire department.

The pot, a thick aluminum one was from Holland,

where my Mom and her family had immigrated from probably about 14 years

before this time, and the pot was burned though, the bottom of it

being totally gone.  The cupboards were scorched, the kitchen had 

to be repainted and my Mom's lunch, the next day,

when she opened it, smoke came right out of the bag,

right there at school, and she had to throw her lunch away,

it was so damaged!

Thank God that the house did not burn down.

My Oma must of been so distressed by this,

as I know her to be a very careful woman and she was probably

very distracted that morning, maybe running late or something

worrying her. She had 8 children and I am sure always had much

to think about and even more to do... 

Anyway, there's the story and my Mom comforted me,

that it could of been much worse.

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I will have to be more careful when making broth and not put the 

temperature so that I can here it cooking but be careful to have a much lower

simmer.... lesson learned

and I am so THANKFUL that my beautiful red rooster pot is still OK...!

My Husband and I were talking about that pot as we drove our

now fixed car (battery went, taking the alternator with it), how

we find that pot so beautiful, my Husband esp. loves the rooster on it,

as do I... we got it at 65% off about 2 years ago and I am so glad that

I did not ruin it, as it would be costly to replace at full price!!! 

So thank God for that!

***

So my Husband had a online consult with a doctor this morning

who told him to monitor his temperature and breathing. 

By tonight he had an elevated temperature, just over 100F.

So he called our medical place again and now will see

the doctor tomorrow.

***

He's quite unwell, the main thing we are hoping and praying for 

is that this cold stays in his head and does not descend into his lungs.

***

So tonight, after I cleaned up while Mr Husband did prayers early,

and then we did what we call 'prayers for our marriage' and he had

tea ready for him and we did the oils for respiratory health...

and then I finally had time to read quietly the 

much loved Akathist to Saint Luke the Surgeon...

***

Tonight we talked again about how we must seek

to be thankful to God for all things and if we are,

then we can still have the joy that God brings,

our heart can still have lightness...

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I forget sometimes and feel discouraged and dismayed,

but God is our Father, He loves us and will take care of us...

and we have so many many things to be thankful for!