Sidetracked by Strep!

The day after I started this blog, my husband and I woke up with the worst sore throat I ever had.  We had no energy and felt achy all over.  At first we ignored the symptoms, and as most parents do, we just tried to just “walk it off.”  The next day, we felt even worse, bad enough that we went to the doctor.   With a throat swab, the doc confirmed the diagnosis:  strep throat.  My husband got checked and he had it too.  We were not too surprised, our son had it a week earlier.  But we thought we would avoid it:  we stayed away from each other, and used antibacterial wipes and Lysol spray on everything.  But we still caught it and suffered through it the rest of the week.  The family did stay away in different rooms most of the week to avoid passing it back to each other.

Needless to say, I did not get much done this past week.

But while being sick did sidetrack me from my blogging and prepping plans, I was grateful for the few supplies we had on hand when my husband and I were  too sick to go to the store:

–extra toilet paper rolls and tissues so we did not run out

–lots of canned chicken soup in the pantry

–extra pain relievers, which I bought on sale when Walgreen’s was having a 2 for 1 special.

–herbs for home remedies (will discuss this in another post)

–gas in the car when we drove to the doctor’s office

Now that we are feeling better, we can go back to our normal routine.   The first thing I did was drive to the gas station to fill up the tank.  One of the first things I learned from reading the prepping blogs is to keep the gas tank filled to no less than half a tank.  Today I plan to stop by the store to restock the supplies we used up, such as canned chicken soup, toilet paper and pain relievers.

The week of being sick reinforced to me that even if no large-scale emergency happens, even if things continue along normally, these extra supplies are a blessing to have on hand for our daily life.