Uuuuggh!

I have had such a week- and not a good one!  I told you last week that we had Norovirus in our facility.  It is the worst outbreak I have dealt with in the 28 years I've worked there.  Almost all or our residents got it and most of the staff.  It hits fast, and people can be feeling fine, then sick in 15 minutes time.  Of course, you are passing the germ at that point, before you even know you are sick
I was at work from Thursday until the next Friday and was working about 12 hour days - sometimes a little longer, sometimes a little shorter.  Because so much staff was sick, everyone was doing a little of everything.  I worked as a floor nurse several days, helped in laundry, helped with housekeeping...  Everything has been getting bleached because that's the only thing that kills this bug.  We have to wash every item of our peoples clothing in hot water, and we have someone coming in to clean the carpet with steam that reaches a very high temperature.  In the meantime, we need to gown and glove to go into most every room.  On top of that, our business office manager was in a pretty bad accident, just got out of the hospital and can't come to work for another week, and one of the nurses lost her Dad rather unexpectedly.
I'm blessed to work with a lot of people that pitched in and helped.  We even had an administrator that came from another building to help clean!
On Monday, I got home around 8 in the evening, hadn't had supper yet and was really quite tired.  Bob was of course home already and had gotten the mail.  Sitting on the counter was a package for me.

This was stamped on it.

Inside was a sweet note and 3 crocheted dish cloths.  It came from my friend Diana, of Forgiven.  She said when she was making these she prayed about who might be blessed to receive them.  It was such a nice surprise, especially when I thought about her praying and God giving her my name, with her not knowing what would be going on in my life at that time.  It's a wonderful promise from God that we are inscribed on the palm of his hand, and he cares about our every day life.
Thanks Diana for listening to that prompt and for being so thoughtful!

The next day I had another surprise when looking at my friends blogs.  My friend Linda of Me, Myself and Mine, posted a song for me.  It was the song 'Give me Jesus'.  I had commented before to her that I really liked that song, so she posted someone singing it at her church.  She also didn't know what my week was like, and didn't know what a blessing that song was to me at that time!  Thanks to you too, Linda!

I'm sure it will be a busy week getting everyone out of isolation, but hopefully by the end of the week, we'll be a little more normal again!