Weekend Rendevous

Sooo....Last week John had to spend the week in Atlanta, so I flew to meet him there on Thursday night and then Friday morning we hopped on a flight to the Bahamas for the long weekend! Yes, it was just for the weekend - and it was JUST PERFECT! There wasn't a lot to see or do, so I did EXACTLY what I wanted - laid by the pool and read my book. The weather was perfect. It was sunny and beautiful. Church on Sunday was touching - there were two confirmations, and many tender feelings about Haiti. Apparently there are quite a few Haitians living in the Bahamas, and several members of the branch had family members in Haiti. My emotions got the best of me...it was a very sweet meeting with a beautiful spirit. Of course, maybe it was just such an unusual experience for me to actually be able to listen peacefully at church that I was caught off guard! If you read my previous post, you'll understand what I'm talking about :). John and I are lame - we're both terrible at taking pictures. So I took one of the darling primary kids, one of the church, and we took one as we were leaving for the airport...it's a terrible picture of both of us - but you get the idea of the beauty of where we were. Such a fun - and much needed - weekend! I feel so renewed!



Here's the latest update with John. He has another sinus infection (surprise!) that he's been on antibiotics for since the beginning of January. Yesterday, they brought out the "big guns" of antibiotics to try to kill the infection. Hopefully it will work. When we saw the immunologist, we decided to try a long term oral regimen of antibiotics to keep him from getting sick rather than start on IV therapy every month (he has IGg 2 deficiency). We're hoping it will keep John healthy and he won't need to start the plasma replacement therapy. But with this latest infection dragging on and on and on, I get kind of nervous that his body just isn't going to respond to oral therapy. But, we'll keep our fingers crossed! The IV therapy would suck. Bad. The side effects are terrible, and it's very expensive (the likes of $5000.00 a month!!!!!). Yes, insurance would likely pay for it, but still it would be a lot out of pocket. So, we're really hoping John's body will respond to the oral therapy and will start feeling better so he doesn't need it!

He really started feeling better when we were in the Bahamas...maybe we need to move to a warmer climate because as soon as we got home, he crashed again. I could handle a warmer life :).