Improving health

I thought I needed to report that Nicole is improving. I think that the antibiotic that she got Monday is helping with the sinus infection. At least that will allow her to get better rest during the night. The throat is down a little because we can tell it in her voice but she still has a way to go. She needs to sleep a lot and drink lots of liquid, both of which she is doing so we wait.

Yesterday, I took an young man down to the doctor because of a very sore throat. If it is still really sore Friday, he will go back and get a blood test and we will know the result Monday. We hope that he does not have mono as well. They call it glandular disease down here. It is still the same nasty bug (virus). It have been good that we are close and have the spare bedroom for such a situation. We have not had an occasion to use it in the pass but there is always a time.

Other than that, we had busy day yesterday with class so afterward we had dinner at home with Nicole. Norma had purchases a chocolate cake for my birthday but it had raisins in it. I didn't think it was bad but Norma decided that she would not buy it again. By the way, raisins are called sultanas down here. So I have been buying Sultana Bran Flakes in the store.

This is a short entry and one just to say the Nikki is doing better.

Hope all is well you!

one sick kid

The weekend was going to be low key but we had decided that the wild flowers were starting to come out around here so we would go to Kings Park in Perth to see some. It is quite a huge park and has many wildflowers that are rare growing there. At first we were going to go Saturday but we had a number of things to do so we decided to do it Sunday. We hear from a student Friday night that she just got back from the doctor and she has mono. Norma went over to check on her. She was pretty sick with very swollen tonsils, sore throat, enlarged spleen and liver. The doctor told her to go to bed immediately, take lots of fluids and get rest. She also said to not go to class for two weeks. That is a lot to miss. Norma invited her to our place and on Saturday afternoon she called and said that she thought it would be better to come over. The P&O is an interesting place but the kitchen downstairs and you have to go outside to get into it, which is just not great when you are feeling this bad and running a fever. We talked to her this morning at breakfast and her nose is so stuffed up that I going with her this afternoon to check with the doctor to see if she also has a sinus infection. She says that her throat and everything do not seem to be better but mono does not improve quickly. If she also has a sinus infection, that will not help her get well either. We shall see how she improves over the week. This is one of those cases when we are glad that we have the spare bed room and are close so can offer Nikki the help to get better. Mono is virus so they can't give her antibiotics but they did give her some steroids to help her throat because it is so swollen.

We are glad to be able to offer her some help.
B.