Sick Kitten
As a child I was a little clock. Once a month, on the dot, I’d have strep. It was terrible. It got so bad that they decided I needed a tonsilectomy (needed my tonsils removed). However, once decided, I had nonstop strep. They pushed back my surgery three times before my pediatrician said "to hell with it" and put me under with a 102 temp.
Since then, I’ve regularly had strep once every two years or so.
Until now, I’ve gone a good five years or so without one single strep diagnosis. Guess I was way overdue. This just kicked me in the ass.
I ignored the headaches I woke up with Thursday and Friday, even managed to ignore the beginnings of a stabbing pain when I swallowed Friday. But when I woke up Saturday morning at FOUR IN THE FUCKING MORNING and couldn’t swallow because my entire exterior throat was swollen and puffy and tender and the entire interior was swollen and icky looking, I couldn’t ignore it.
I’ve had strep plenty to know that you must gargle warm salt-water to cleanse the throat. You must drink plenty of juices and water. You must see a doc as soon as possible.
What I didn’t remember was the massive headaches and the lovely fevers. I don’t have a thermometer, however after this, I will purchase one. I mean, if after taking some tylenol for the headache and fever, my temp was 100.4 (visited my mother, don’t ask), then I must’ve had a pretty high fever. Hell, it was high enough that I couldn’t focus or see straight, I was quite dizzy and off balance. Until the tylenol, of course. Then I could move and sleep with ease.
Of course, that also meant that I went to take a nap Saturday afternoon while Big Ed visited his parents. But when I woke up…. According to Big Ed, the apartment’s thermostat read 85degrees but I was cuddled and huddled in a ball under the blankets freezing my ass off.
So I’m not doing so well. And to top it off, I gag on my birthcontrol pill, a tiny little spec of a pill compared to the horse-pill antibiotics and painkiller/anti-inflamatory meds the doc gave me. My throat is still that swollen. *sigh*
