The FLU!

The past two weeks has been the PITS!

Kirby started out feeling down and under the weather about two weeks ago after teaching Sunday school to a group of sick teens! Of course he had to give them all hugs! Kirby calls it, "The Obama Flu!" Because he says it's really serious stuff and there's been nothing like it that he's ever known! Ha Ha!

Ya gotta love him! He can find humor in any situation!

I told him that maybe we had just bragged too much about the Royal Jelly that we have taken for the last six or seven years or so...
When Kirby and I were first married, Kirby had a real problem with always catching the flu around this time of the year every year that rolled around. Then he would always get worse and it would go into pneumonia and he would wind up in the hospital for a stay! The last time that he was in the hospital for that was in 1999. Then one morning as I was having my morning Cheerios, and listening to a Christian talk show, one of the guests was talking about a product called Bee Alive and how she had begun taking Royal Jelly. She told of how a friend had gotten her to take Royal Jelly and suddenly she began to get better and feel great! She talked about being deficient in B12 vitamins and how Royal Jelly seemed to change all of that for her! This really got my attention because the doctor had told my husband that he would most likely have to take B12 shots for the rest of his life and Kirby, who was always full of life and energy, seemed to just "crash" at the end of every evening. And in the mornings he would just drag himself out of bed! This is not like my husband! Normally he is Mr. Rise and Shine and give God the Glory!

So, I did some research on royal jelly and found it in a local GNC store. I began to give it to him daily and after about a month of taking royal jelly, I could tell a big difference in my husband! He had his energy back! He stopped taking the B12 shots all together! When Kirby went back for his regular examination, our doctor asked him, "What are you doing? You have not been taking your B12 shots, yet all your tests say that your OK." Kirby began to tell the Doc what we had been up to and Dr. S. just smiled and said, "Well, it seems to be doing well for you! Keep it up!" So we did!
I began to take it as well. For years we have not even had a sniffle, until now!

But here is the part that really proved to me that the stuff has been keeping us well! My pitiful husband made a confession to me last week. When I went to get the royal jelly bottle and looked inside, it looked as if it had not been touched. I turned around and gave him that "look" that mothers can only give and he confessed, "I haven't been taking it because we were running low and I wanted you to take it instead." The thing is, I stopped taking it because of the same reason! Neither one of us had taken it for about a month prior to us coming down with the flu!
I promise, I will never do that again! We will get back on royal jelly, ASAP!
But tonight, I am running a fever of 100. Just enough to make me feel really lousy!
It may be a few days before I feel well enough to blog again, but I do want to report that being on the flu has brought my weight down by about 5 more pounds! My doctor says, that this weight would be easy for me to put back on when I am well so I must be careful and stick to my diet and exercise when I am feeling better.