Out from Under our Hole!

If you frequent the Adkins Family Blog, you know the past couple of weeks have been anything but normal around here! Life has been so insane and I'll be honest with you this is one momma who is ready for school to begin and the lack of routine of summer to be behind us! We need some normalcy back in this house!

Nine of the last 13 days has found one of our family members at the doctor. That's not the kind of normalcy I like! I thought last week was bad, but the chaos just continued to this past week.

I think, although I'm a little scared to say this, that we are now ALL on the road to recovery.


Miraculously enough Maddie has remained unscathed by any of this. She is healthy and energetic and full of life!

I just love this picture!

Daddy (aka Ron) has been relatively healthy too! He has had some allergies issues, but has not been the one making trips to the doctor! He was asked to do a funeral this past week with an unchurched family. We continue to be amazed how the Lord puts new people in our paths! Ron has been asked to do 17 funerals in the last 3 years. Although these are not easy to do, we sense the Lord using him in mighty ways to minister to families grieving and in many cases seeking so much more!

Nathaniel too seems to be doing pretty good. We took him to urgent care last weekend and it was a virus not pink eye! He improved relatively quickly and was back outside in no time! His yearly exam was this past week and he did great with that too! He and Ronnie are both 51 1/4 inches tall, but Nathaniel has 5 lbs on his big brother!

Ronnie went to his PT follow up appointment yesterday and got a great report. Brenda, his Physical therapist, said that she could already tell improvement and praised him on how well he's done his exercises. He is strengthening this legs and she could tell. She sent him home with some of the same and some new exercises and said she would like to see him in another 6 weeks to keep track of how he's doing!

Eli was our crazy man this week. He broke out Tuesday evening with a rash that according to books and grandparents appeared to be chicken pox! By morning it looked more like hives to me, but I thought we better check with the doctor. By Wednesday evening he was broke out everywhere and by Thursday morning he was beginning to improve. The doctor did blood work to try to determine what was going on and after several days of assuming I was one of very few (if any) parents who had ever given their children chicken pox - the doctors office called and said, "No Chicken pox, must be a virus"! Eli and his viruses! He's got to stop this. He is much better and hopefully we can keep him that way!

My shingle pain is 100% better than last week and I am very grateful! Some of you have asked about the rash, it remains and I'm told by some could be as long as years before it's completely gone - who knows!

Then today I was diagnosed with both strep and an ear infection. Apparently my immune system is way down due to the shingles and that explains it. All I know is that I am ready for routine and not the kind that includes trips to the clinic!

We hope that things, not only on this blog, but in our crazy household will get back to "normal" soon! One thing I can't seem to get over is the fact that if we had moved this August, as planned - we had no plan for insurance. We would not have been covered for all of this.

Praise the Lord for His provision!

There is good to be found in all circumstances!