Strep Throat, Big Changes and HighCotton

Thursday after my time doing PTA stuff at the school I went to the Temple. (It was wonderful and spontaneous. I have found if I plan in advance to go, something always pops up, so now I sneak. I wear a skirt, feel a little need to escape the world and voila. I love the peace and clarity I feel there. It is so freeing to walk in the door and leave the world behind.) When I got home my throat felt a little sore. The next day I had a fever and pain in my throat but when I looked with a flashlight it looked fine. This morning I looked with an old flash light- wow it was red. The new bulbs in the led flashlights cast a harsh white light that drown out all color. (I really miss the old days when we had the non energy efficient light bulbs. Those were the days. Scott has replaced all lights even my little reading lights with the artificial harsh florescent or led lights. I know it is better for the world and for cost purposes, but I love old real light bulbs. I love how I digress.) I decided to go into the doctor. I had not had my usual sinus pains I get with colds yet my throat was really hurting. I have strep. They came in the room in a few minutes after the test with some nasty elixir. I remember when it took days for them to see if you strep. I started on the meds but now my tummy hurts really bad. I wonder is it from the strep or am I allergic to the meds? I wish at times I had a good crystal ball, then I could avoid illness. Would it be too terrible to at least have a better way to know what to do in certain situations? I guess that is all part of the trials and errors necessary to experience growth. (update from when I typed this... I was allergic to the med so they switched me. I have now been on 2 antibiotics and it isn't helping- plus I got sicker. Scott and I are just very blessed right now with sickness and time to think of all our blessings while we wait in Dr. offices. He is improving- hooray, and I know I will too. His theory is we picked up some sort of strange virus. Because his saliva glands were dry and my throat is dry. I think he may be right as all his other tests have been negative so far. I just hope his goes totally away and mine clears up before the auditions for the Stake Play:)) I have a really busy day scheduled tomorrow with church meetings all day and now I'm thinking-- should I go anyway even if I am contagious? Then I think NO crazy, if people stayed home when sick things would not spread. (I stayed home by the way which wasn't even a choice I could make I was one sick girl. But I was able to go today:)) I am very happy- just a little bit of life going on is all. The biggest change in a long time is happening right now and with Scott so ill and everything else I'm amazed we are continuing on. We are truly surrounded by awesome family that has been praying and fasting I I know that is why Scott is on the mend. Scott has been thinking for a few years he would like a new challenge. Some of his friends who are attorneys would ask him to come work with them. He would laugh and feel great they thought enough of him to consider it. Then our company's founder sold our company. It was hard for us. There were many changes. Some were great others very different and difficult. The biggest impact was product changes and a ruffian who stalked us (he had nothing to do with our company just prayed on our success, luckily he is gone now). As a result I stepped back from the business and Scott took on the entire load himself. Part of what he had loved was working with me. He also loved the integrity of the leadership and was saddened to see it change hands. We also had a huge growth spurt which took our numbers from 35,000 to 1 million consultants. How can things stay small when you grow that big? We loved the small feeling. We still love it and the products, but Scott felt he needed something more. I will be taking over the business again and I'm really proud of what Scott has decided and who he has decided to work with. He is working for a family owned company out of Birmingham, AL. called High Cotton. They flew us out there in Dec and I was very impressed, we met the owner and his family and had a tour and met all the other employees and saw the whole operation. It was really cool and I loved everyone I met. The city was neat too. They loved Scott and made him a great offer, he was thrilled to accept. So now he will be working with his friends, selling and traveling and he is excited and himself again. If I had to lose him to another company it couldn't have been a better one. You can see the company website at highcottonusa.com. The term High Cotton means prosperity in the south- it is not a cotton company. We are excited about all the changes and having fun with 2008.