Danielle Blog

Tis the season – and no, I don’t mean Christmas

Tis the season for electric blankets, boxes of tissues, sudafed non-drying sinus, humidifiers, saline nasal spray, Nyquil, herbal tea, and soup. And water, lots of water.

I haven’t posted lately, because well, I’ve been feeling like shit.

Fevers and aches and sore throats and head aches and more fever and much more ache and FEVER and the SORE throat that lasts forever and ever.

Yesterday, I was convinced I had strep. After finally managing to find a flashlight in our home (note to self: with Blizzard Season coming, must get/find functioning flashlights), I looked at my throat in the mirror and saw white spots! Combined with the fact that I’ve been running a fever since, oh, Wednesday or Thursday, I was Convinced that this was no longer Just A Cold.

Off to the MinuteClinic I go – not happily. Happily applies to the healthy. Grumpy applies to me who is feverish and achy.

Grump, grump, grump. sign in.

We can see you now. Oh! How Fast! I didn’t even have to pretend to smile in welcome when they told me that. Cause you know, I smile to be polite, and even when sick and grumpy, old habits die hard. No need to take it out on the people who are there to help you, right?

But the quick test is negative. No Strep?! No drugs, nada, nothing, zero, nilch.

The long culture takes up to 3 days. yeahhhhhh…. and in the meantime? Um, try not to go out in public too much, just in case. (that is my own opinion, they didn’t tell me that)

Back home, I felt worrrrrrrrrrrrrrrse. Wayyyyyyyyyyyy worse. Must’ve been the combined activity of leaving the house and being forced to concentrate on driving. blegh who needs concentrating while driving? just put the ol car on autopilot…. wait? you mean that button isn’t autopilot?! yeaaaaaaaaagh!

(jes kidding)

I slept and ate, and worked some, and HB came home early with every over the counter drug known to man* to get me better and multiple cans of soup and 2 kinds of herbal teeeeeeeeea. He brought be refills and drugs and let me sit there while he got the article I’d printed on the printer downstairs.

Isn’t he a sweetie?

And I did start feeling better after ingesting all* of it. I was actually able to get in a few hours of work before running out of steam again. And when I re-read it this morning, it needed very little editing. So, I wasn’t just fooling myself about it being decent.

And this morning? Well, my fever appears to be gone. Isn’t that nice? My throat is still sore and makes me long for hot drinks and NOT cold ones (I’m actually microwaving my water, because it feels better to drink) but I appear to be officially On The Mend.

I got a chunk of writing done on my thesis before lunch which is a Very Good Thing.

Which leads me to think I probably do NOT have strep and that long culture will stay negative. But it does lead me to wonder:
What WERE those white spots on my tonsils? Oddness is what they are.

Just confirmation that I am a Freak, HB would tease me.

mmmm…. time to re-heat my tea and water and take more non-drying pills.

*I exaggerate, but isn’t a little exaggeration good?