Tuesday, October 31, 2006

Tuesday update

Howdy!

What a weekend I've had. Saturday morning I woke up not quite feeling like myself. By that afternoon, my throat starting giving me trouble which hasn't happened since I was a child. The pain got worse throughout the day; it was horrible. Chris went out and got lots of soup, juice, oranges, and Tylenol. We were pretty sure that I had the flu based on the symptoms that were occuring. That same night I had THE worst case of the chills, so I knew instinctively that I had a high fever, especially since Chris and the kids were rocking shorts and t-shirts and still wanted the fans on. By Sunday I was weak and completely void of energy. My whole body ached, and my throat was almost too much to bear. By yesterday morning, in addition to the other remaining symptoms, my voice sounded very strange. I noticed it when I phoned my boss to call in sick. It wasn't scratchy or strained, but just strange. (wow, repeat this last sentence 5 times as fast as you can, please) Chris took me to the doctor yesterday afternoon and I found out that I have strep throat. The doc gave me a prescription to kill the throat infection, a big bag full of Advil samples, and told me be sure to stay away from the kids (the hardest thing in life for a mom to do).

To sum up, I'm still feeling crappy, but definitely better than yesterday. This is the first in about five days that I've felt up to getting on the computer, which happens to be an enormous obsession of mine. Time for me to eat more soup and watch more scary movies. Life is funny, a week ago I would have done almost anything to be home for a few days and watching fun cheesy horror flicks during the day. But right now, I'd rather be doing what most of you are doing which is working. I don't get it.

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