Easter Sunday Dan wasn't feeling well so he stayed home to rest up while the girls and I headed to Kasson to visit my grandparents for Easter.
When we got back home I found Dan in bed running a 104.4 temperature! It was quite scary as he was a bit delerious and wasn't quite sure what was going on.
Grandma Sue was able to come up and sit with the girls while I took Dan to the ER to get checked out.
After several hours, three bags of fluids, a gammet of tests, a round with the nebulizer and some pain meds that finally knocked him out it was determined that Dan had Influenza B. The doctor told me that Dan was not to be left unattended for the next 24-hours and that he needed his temperature to be checked every hour to insure that it was not peaking again. I was really worried about him, especially when they told me that people die from this!
A HUGE thank you to my mom for staying the night to take care of the girls so that I could attend to Dan. I was worried that after taking care of Dan that I would make the girls sick if I got too close to them.
An even BIGGER thank you to my mom for staying through the next day and night as well since I ended up getting sick too! She became a master at chasing after our sicky butts with the Lysol spray! Knowing what we were dealing with my doc was able to get me on the meds right away to keep the fever down so I didnt have near as a bad run as Dan did.
We are now at Thursday evening and we are just starting to get back to normal. Dan and I have both been home from work all week and have been struggling with not being as snuggly with the girls as we like to be.
We thank our lucky stars that neither Tehya or Ada have gotten sick, and thanks to everyone that has called and checked in on us. I think we are finally ready to rejoin the world of the living!
Sunday evening around 5pm an F3 class Tornado hit the town of Hugo. The twister touched down about a mile up the road from our house and left devistation in its wake. Several families are without homes, a 2 year old little boy lost his life and there are millions of dollars of property damage. A large majority of the town was evacuated from their homes due to gas leaks from the destroyed homes. Over half the town lost their power and for hours there were over a hundred people that were considered as missing. The elementary school was turned into a makeshift shelter where reports say medical attention was given to over 200 people that were injured in the storm. The storm itself lasted about 5 minutes, and as scary as it was, we got off lightly compared to others so close to us. The summer will be filled with sounds of repairs.
The average size of hail that hit our area was about the size of a golf ball. It sounded like a machine gun was shooting them out at our house they were coming down so fast.
3 sides of our house have hail damage. You can see some of the holes in this picture. We will need all new siding, soffits, facia and roof. We also had hail damage to our trailer that was sitting in the driveway.
I was amazed that even though there are holes in the siding right around it, my favorite ceramic planter doesnt have a scratch on it. My flowers in all my gardens and planters were shredded.
A hole in our kitchen window screen - look how big that is! We know how lucky we are to have our lives and good health after this storm hit so close to us. Thank you to all of you that called and sent text messages to check in on us...it is heartwarming to know that so many people care. Never in our wildest dreams did we imagine the little town of Hugo would be the center of attention on the news!
