i somehow managed to get strep throat, which is apparently very rare for adults. considering i haven't kissed anyone, i can only deduce that i somehow licked something offensive. scary thought.
but thanks to tylenol and penecillin, i am on my way to recovery. no more chills and fever. my throat still hurts, but it's a little more bearable. with about 8 hours of rest i felt better enough to get some of my errands done. and in roughly 12 hours, i will no longer be contagious.
the human body is such a strange and delicate thing. one minute i was feeling fine but by the afternoon i could barely swallow without wincing in pain, and by the next morning i felt so weak and crappy i could barely get up to pee. all because a strain of bacteria, invisible to the human eye, has been coursing through my body attacking my throat. and now a medicine borne from mold is fighting the good fight to bring me back to normal. all this going on inside my body, while it tries to do the normal everyday stuff too. no wonder i need rest!
you would think that since my body is acting in overdrive to kill the offensive bacteria that maybe, just maybe, i could be burning more calories than normal. and perhaps i could be losing weight! but even if that theory were true, i've eaten too much ice cream today. a girl's gotta soothe her sore throat SOMEHOW :)
3 comments:
Can you believe I've never had strep in my life? This despite the fact that my brother contracts it almost annually.
Hope you're feeling better soon!
Strep throat and a speeding ticket. What's next? Finding out there's no Santa Claus?
Ugh. I was plagued with that awful illness several times as a teenager. It hurts like a mofo. Feel better!
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