October 14. The night was cold, and the morning was chilly too. Somehow I all of a sudden got a full-blown head cold. I felt fine when I got up this morning, and still felt fine when school started. Before the first class had ended, however, I could feel the cold coming, and I did not feel well the rest of the day. It was only in the Lord’s strength that I was able to finish classes. Judy came to school with a bad cold, and Mike is sick with his stomach ailment again. He wasn’t in lotu yesterday. In music class, I tried to play the keyboard while the students sang “Jesus Loves the Little Children,” but five of the notes between middle C and low C no longer work so the keyboard music just doesn’t sound nice. It sounded much better when they sang it acapella. Then I am trying to teach them the parts to “How Can It Be?” but half the tenor and bass notes are among those that won’t play so I have to play them an octave higher or lower. We decided that it’s time to pray for a new keyboard. I was thankful that they had independent work to do for math and English so I could just relax. I sat and sewed while they were working and came to check on them every so often. It didn’t take them long to do their English lesson, and there was plenty of time left to read the missionary story, or so I thought. But when I finally thought to look at the clock, we were already over into science time. Decided to just go ahead and finish the story. After that, I was quite tired, and offered to let the students go home and just do science tomorrow. But they wanted to do science so I had them re-read the couple pages they read on Friday, and then we read them together and looked over the study exercises. While they were reading the science lesson themselves, I warmed up dinner so Daddy could eat, and I ate when science class was over and the students had left. Matthew came this morning and replaced the trim on the east side of the house. Trophimus helped him, and later Gibson came along and helped too. We are thankful to have that job done. There are still a lot of outdoor repairs that need to be done. Daddy thought he might be able to finish putting the plywood on our bedroom walls; and he took the drum in there to stand on so he could reach the top. He fixed a very small section that needed to be closed off and then measured another section so he could cut the plywood. That was all he could manage before he felt too weak. Looking up is not his cup of tea. Daniel came in to get a flex card while Daddy was working, and offered to come and help but couldn’t work on it today. Daddy was hoping to go out to SIL this week to have them install the Microsoft Professional in my computer. People were expecting SIL aviation to come in this week for coffee. Calls to aviation, however, revealed that they have a plane down and no mechanics available at present to fix it so they have canceled all local flights. It will probably be two or three weeks before they can get it fixed. When I lay down for nap around 2:00, I was so distraught that I could not sleep. I would either sneeze, or my nose would run, or I would get so stopped up that I couldn’t breathe. My ears and throat hurt so much that I could not get comfortable. It was hot, but the wind came up and was blowing on my head. I finally got up and put eardrops in my ears, hoping that would help. It did help a bit, but I was just so uncomfortable all over. When the wind came up, I go up again and shut the kitchen window and the back door, and then took a couple ibuprofen before lying back down; but I was too stopped up by then to be able to breathe. Got up again and got a couple blankets which I put under the head of the mattress so I could be propped up more. But that didn’t help enough to bring comfort and sleep. Finally I thought of onions. Daddy was already up by this time, and he cut up an onion for me and put it on my bedside stand. That helped so much and I was so thankful to get a little rest after that. It was already 3:30 by then, but I really needed to sleep; and I thank the Lord for allowing sleep to come. It was about 4:15, I think, when I did get up. That only gave me time for a drink and a fruit snack (which actually became part of my supper since it was nearly 5:00 by the time I finished eating the fruit). Daddy went and started the generator, and I put supper on the table. Put bath water on to heat while we were eating supper so I could get a bath while the evening was still warm. Then I put dish water on to heat and started writing tomorrow’s lesson plans while the water was heating. After washing dishes, I finished the lesson plans, and then wrote in my journal. “O give thanks unto the God of heaven: for his mercy endureth for ever.” Psalm 136:26 October 15. (written on the 16th) Woke up this morning (the 15th) with chills. That signaled to me that I would probably get a fever later. Ate part of a dish of oatmeal, but couldn’t finish it. Didn’t feel too bad at first, but I soon knew that I would not be able to handle school today. After a while, I went back to bed, and there I stayed most of the day, although I could not sleep. I did not eat anything the rest of the day either. My stomach was upset, and I had a headache that got worse and worse as the day progressed. The fever came around noon with a high of 99.7º. Between the stomach ache, headache, and fever, I was so uncomfortable. I wasn’t able to take aspirin for the fever because we only have non-buffered aspirin which makes me really sick to my stomach even when I don’t feel so bad. I did take some willow which helped a bit, but the headache was still too severe to afford any rest. Also took some artemisinin (wormwood) in case I had malaria. Used up half of the activated charcoal that we had left (used four or five tablets) to try to settle the stomach. Finally late evening, the fever broke, and I was able to get some rest through the night. Praise the Lord!
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