So most of you have noticed a pattern with Phil: he's often sick.
Well, now he's consistently sick. He has good days where he feels like he can work for part of the day, and then he has bad days where he doesn't feel like going anywhere or doing anything. But he's always feeling sick.
This kind of makes it sound tame, but it's not. He's always tired, and sometimes has one or more of the following: dizziness, nausea, blurry vision, foggy brain, achy muscles, weak muscles, dry/sore eyes, short of breath, stomach ache, and sore throat.
We've booked to see an immunologist, which we should be visiting in less than a month. He will hopefully figure things out for us. At the moment, we're pretty sure (and kind of hoping) that it's chronic fatigue.
We're hoping it is this because there are some nasty diseases that they have to cross off before they can diagnose you with chronic fatigue. Chronic fatigue is quite preferable.
This hasn't affected our plans to move to Melbourne, except that we're moving down sooner. Hopefully by the end of November we'll have moved down and will be living underneath my parent's house (which will be a wonderful blessing!).
We're sure that God wants us to go to bible college, so that will continue, but we might be studying part time, or doing some by correspondence. Phil is able to think and work, it is just more tiring than usual, and especially tiring if he has to go somewhere.
At the moment, we're coping for the most part (though it was a bit sticky when I got very sick with the flu). Phil is going to be working from home more often, and I will be hopefully finishing my degree by mid-November.
God bless you all!
Sunday, July 22, 2012
Tuesday, June 19, 2012
Oops...
So, every few months we were going to update... Sorry! Here's the exciting things that have happened each month since the beginning of the year!
January: Spent almost the whole month in Melbourne as Phil trains people on processing census data.
February: My sister turns 18 (eek!) and we get sick.
March: Erskine family catch up :D Way too short.
April: Foster family catch up :D Way too short and busy. Hardly had time to see everyone properly :(
May: Quiet-ish. Phil sick. We go to the MTS (Melbourne School of Theology) open day and buy hoodies.
June: We spend a week in Adelaide, seeing relatives and going to a cousin's wedding. Also, we got accepted into MTS! Yay!
Life has been getting a lot busier for Phil and I. Last year was quiet. This year is not. We've been helping out at church more, making a greater effort to catch up with people, helping lead bible study and many other things besides. Phil is working 4 days a week so he can spend more time helping out with the church. Mostly this has worked well, except when Phil's been sick (too often) and then he hasn't been able to help out as much as he would like.
I'm in my last year of study, with 2 1/2 subjects left to do. Some subjects are fascinating, others are boring. It's almost as though there isn't any in between. Just really awesome, or really not awesome.
All in all, so many people to see, so little time and lots of poor health :(
January: Spent almost the whole month in Melbourne as Phil trains people on processing census data.
February: My sister turns 18 (eek!) and we get sick.
March: Erskine family catch up :D Way too short.
April: Foster family catch up :D Way too short and busy. Hardly had time to see everyone properly :(
May: Quiet-ish. Phil sick. We go to the MTS (Melbourne School of Theology) open day and buy hoodies.
June: We spend a week in Adelaide, seeing relatives and going to a cousin's wedding. Also, we got accepted into MTS! Yay!
Life has been getting a lot busier for Phil and I. Last year was quiet. This year is not. We've been helping out at church more, making a greater effort to catch up with people, helping lead bible study and many other things besides. Phil is working 4 days a week so he can spend more time helping out with the church. Mostly this has worked well, except when Phil's been sick (too often) and then he hasn't been able to help out as much as he would like.
I'm in my last year of study, with 2 1/2 subjects left to do. Some subjects are fascinating, others are boring. It's almost as though there isn't any in between. Just really awesome, or really not awesome.
All in all, so many people to see, so little time and lots of poor health :(
Wednesday, March 7, 2012
Just a quick update
Sorry we haven't posted for a while! This blog isn't the first thing on our minds when we get free time.
And what are we doing with our time?
Well, Phil is working 4 days a week and doing church related things on the day off (Wednesday). We have been getting into CIF and meeting up with friends more regularly, and I've been helping out at Sunday School. Phil's also thinking of joining the music team, playing the flute of course.
I'm continuing uni. I'm not sure if I'm enjoying it as much as usual. I'll have to think about that. It can be a bit confusing and tiring, but hey, it's my last year!
We're both learning Greek, and finding it quite interesting. We've memorised the letters and can pronounce words, though we don't know what they mean (yet). We know some of them, though, and have created a little card game to help us memorise 16 of the words. But then there's the different conjugations to memorise....
*sigh*
*head-desk*
Well, that's about it.
Hope you're all going well :)
God bless you :)
And what are we doing with our time?
Well, Phil is working 4 days a week and doing church related things on the day off (Wednesday). We have been getting into CIF and meeting up with friends more regularly, and I've been helping out at Sunday School. Phil's also thinking of joining the music team, playing the flute of course.
I'm continuing uni. I'm not sure if I'm enjoying it as much as usual. I'll have to think about that. It can be a bit confusing and tiring, but hey, it's my last year!
We're both learning Greek, and finding it quite interesting. We've memorised the letters and can pronounce words, though we don't know what they mean (yet). We know some of them, though, and have created a little card game to help us memorise 16 of the words. But then there's the different conjugations to memorise....
*sigh*
*head-desk*
Well, that's about it.
Hope you're all going well :)
God bless you :)
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