Not again!!
For the last few days I’ve had a sore throat. It wasn’t been horribly sore, but sore enough. I figured I was just getting a cold since, you know, I just HAD strep. So I let it go for a few days.
Yesterday I started having more fatigue and body ache. But I think I was still in denial that it could be anything more. Today I decided it was worth the time and money to just go see if it was strep or not. I kind of was thinking it might be, but again, how could it be?
They called me about 25 min. after my appt. to tell me it was positive. *sigh…* Again?! Seriously, people, I haven’t had strep since I was in Jr. High, then I get it twice in one month. The joys of parenthood, for sure. I’ve started the antibiotics, so only 23 hours until I am no longer contagious. (And I will publicly apologize to all of the people who get strep from me walking around for DAYS being contagious without knowing.)
The kids are going in this evening to get tested. The nurses theory (and mine) is that Sophia is the carrier. It’s been cycling through her room and someone was diagnosed with it earlier this week. Being a carrier means she has the bacteria, but no symptoms. She then gives it to me, and I get the symptoms!
What makes this all worse is that we had plans for this whole weekend! Sophia was supposed to spend the night with my sister tonight. (And still will if she tests negative, but I’m not optimistic.) Tomorrow morning the kids were going to dye eggs with their cousin. They’ll still dye them tomorrow, just without their cousin. Then we were going to have dinner at my parents with Ron’s sister, her boyfriend, her daughter, and their son. We’ll all have been on antibiotics for 24 hours at that point, but I’m guessing his sister will not want to be around us that soon after. We’ll see. At least we’ll all be fine for Easter dinner on Sunday!
But really, this just sucks.
Unfortunately, strep is one of those things that someone can CARRY asymptomatically and pass onto someone (like you) who then gets it again. The girls I used to nanny for kept passing it around and around for months. Finally, they were ALL put on antibiotics to kill it for good! I hope you feel better soon!
Comment by Imperfect Christian — April 19, 2007 @ 3:16 am