Strep Throat: "How To Suffer For Two Weeks" 


This week I had the honor….nay, the privilege of being diagnosed with strep throat. Yay for me… 
 
Now, if you’re wondering what having strep throat is like, imagine a golf ball wrapped in dull tacks lodged in the back of your throat, and every time you swallow, yawn, or sneeze that spiked ball lodges itself deep into the soft pink tissue of your raw, agitated pharynx. Visually, strep throat looks like a patch of white fungus growing in the back of your mouth. Not a pleasant thing to look at I can assure you.  
 
Accompanying the pain in your throat are various other physical flu-like symptoms; your joints ache, the back of your neck hurts, the glands in your neck are extremely swollen and tender, you’re dizzy and muddled-headed, and you have a high fever (102degrees in my case). Basically you feel like death warmed over. 
 
After gradually suffering with a steadily-increasing illness for almost two weeks and not knowing what was wrong with me, I stopped sucking up the pain, jumped in my car and drove to see a doctor, who confirmed that I did indeed have strep throat, that it was extremely infected, and that I was to take mega-doses of penicillin. Two days later and I finally feel human again. I’ll be on penicillin for the next five days, and am thankful to finally be able to return to work and begin posting here again.  
 
Sorry for the absence. Being sick does not help motivate me to write… Now we dance! 

Posted: Fri - June 16, 2006 at 04:27 PM           |