Netflix and Meds

What happened on Wednesday?  Well, I woke up and felt a bit sick again.  I was so mad and annoyed.  I had a really long day ahead of me and I was finally starting to feel better.  How could this be happening again?

By the end of school I knew something was wrong.  I drove all the way down to practice and was completely miserable.  I lasted a half hour before getting back in my car and heading home.  By the time I got to my house I knew something was very, very wrong.  I barely managed to crawl into bed.  I was achy, feverish, and my armpits hurt so bad.  When I woke up the next day I knew I had to get to the doctor, and fast.

Thankfully, we have an Urgent Care in our neighborhood (although the five minute walk seemed overly daunting.)  It wasn't even 9:00 and I had already had a strep test and a flu test.  I had been to the Urgent Care a few weeks before and the doctor had mentioned strep but I didn't have a sore throat at that time so I passed on that awful throat culture test (I was seriously traumatized in my early twenties when I had six strep tests in ten days when I had mono.) . Apparently I had had strep for three weeks and it had gotten pretty bad.

I've never had strep so I figured I would take the meds and after a few doses I would be back to my old self.  I dragged myself to Walgreen's to get my prescription and went home to "Netflix and Meds."

(In other news, the new She-Ra is pretty awesome and I was a pretty big fan of the original.)

But the meds didn't kick in right away.  I had no idea how bad strep can be.  I barely survived Friday and it took all my strength (and lots of prosecco) to make it through our ThanksgivingFest.  Sunday was mildly better but Monday was downhill again.  I was seriously getting so frustrated.  I started Googling armpit pain, swollen glands, and all kinds of other things you should never Google.  That's when JO decided we needed to go to Sulmona to take my mind off of it.  (Plus, the prosecco worked the other night so why not try it again.) It was definitely the right choice!

See, prosecco worked~ . Tuesday morning I actually felt like a human again.  I haven't been able to exercise since the middle of October and I have a ton of life stuff to catch up (hence all the blogging) but I'm feeling better just in time for the extra long weekend so I'll take it.