Had a pretty busy weekend after a week of being mostly sick. I woke up Monday (after being around a lot of kids at Merry Main Street on Saturday) with a very sore throat and feeling pretty bad. The past, oh, 6 or 7 times that happened, it was strep throat. It was also a pretty busy day at work. I stayed home and returned some phone calls and responded to some e-mails. By then it was after lunch, and I was pretty tired so I did what I had wanted to do all morning: take a nap. I woke up at 4:30 (too late to head to my doctor’s office) feeling much worse. It was official: I was sick! The next day, I made sure to get to the doctor. Usually when I see her and tell her my symptoms, she looks in my throat and recoils at what she sees and says, “yep, that’s strep,” and gives me a prescription for an antibiotic. I feel better about 12 hours after I take the first one…knocks it right out. This time, my throat wasn’t terribly red. She gave me a swab test and it was negative. So, she just said, “whatever it is should clear up in a few days, if not come see me again.” I went home and slept, then ended up going to work on Wed but still not feeling well. Being away from work any longer was going to make things really difficult for me, though. Thurs I almost felt right, but I had a “frog” in my throat all day. Friday I woke up feeling great, but with no voice and I had to whisper most of the day (although it got me out of phone calls).
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