I was given a Tender Mercy!

Back when I had "the flu," Grant and I were so, so worried that one of our girls would get it. It was just such a nasty "flu" (the one described in the post about 6 or so down.) Well, 2 weeks went by and no one else got it! I was thinking how amazing and rare that was, when I started seeing reports on the news about salmonella poisoning through peanut butter products. Two days ago, I said to Grant, "Wouldn't that be funny if it wasn't the flu at all, but salmonella poisoning?" (Okay, not funny but I always use that word for some reason.) Grant looked up the symptoms and I had all except one! I wasn’t totally convinced until today when I looked up the list of things that were recalled and realized that I had eaten not one but two of the items on the list, sometime during the few days before I got sick (I don’t remember exactly when.) I quickly grabbed the remaining (Austin brand) crackers with peanut butter in the center, and Grant’s protein bars to throw in the garbage. I couldn’t believe I didn’t take this more serious before! As I read all about it, I started thinking. Here I had a potential threat to my children’s lives, right here in our home. I couldn’t help but think that if it was one of my daughters who ate the crackers that I ate, maybe the outcome wouldn’t have been so good. Or if Grant wouldn’t have made me drink so much Gatorade, maybe I would’ve ended up in the hospital. Or if one of the girls would’ve eaten some crackers before today, when I took them out, they would’ve gotten sick unnecessarily. Or if… Or if… Or if… There were just so many ways this couldn’t gone so differently and been so terrible! I called my physician’s office and they told me to watch the girls over the next day or so and if they even feel nauseated, I should take them straight to the hospital. Wow! I couldn’t help but be so grateful for how it turned out. I truly feel that the Lord is guiding our lives!! I am so glad that it was me that got sick. I am so glad that we are all fine. Wow, how scary and yet what a miracle!