Tuesday at work I started feeling like I head a head cold coming on. By that evening I was feeling achey & clamy. Wednesday I stayed home from work and slept most of the day. I couldn't swallow anything, and could only sip liquids slowly. Shauna took my temperature: 104 degrees.
I felt totally miserable. Even knowing, intellectually, how often we tend to take good health for granted, getting sick sure makes you appreciate generally good health.
Yesterday evening when, after a day of rest, I didn't seem to be getting any better Shauna took me to InstaCare. I tested "very positive" for strep throat.
I was given the choice of penicillin pills 3 times a day for 10-days, or a single shot that would have the same effect. Call me crazy, but I opted for the pills. Getting poked when I was already feeling miserable didn't sound like fun.
The doctor told me to stay home again today (you're still contagious for up to 24-hours after you begin taking antibiotics), and even offered to give me a doctors note to take to work. (I declined; I don't think I need that formality at my present job.) That and lots of liquid, tylenol and ibuprofin, and I'm beginning to feel less miserable, though I don't yet feel "well."
—Michael A. Cleverly
Thursday, May 12, 2005 at 18:09
Nasty, isn't it? I had it myself about two weeks ago, and was knocked out for an entire week. Sounds like you've got it worse than I did.