But the size of the pill they gave me was almost impossible to swallow

So, indeed, I did have strep throat.  I can’t remember the last time I had

doesn't look so scary when it's represented by a plush toy, does it?

 strep.  Probably when I was a kid or something.  It’s just not on my list of things I’m susceptable to.  So when I started feeling a little peaked, I thought it was allergies like everyone else.  My mother, of course, pulled her nurse hat out of the bag and made me go to the doctor.  What finally pushed me into it was the fact that I almost passed out in the Costco.  Isn’t that embarassing.

While I was still vascillating over the idea of going to the doctor, I looked up the symptoms of strep at WebMD.  Well, if WebMD wasn’t designed to scare the crap out of you, I don’t know what real use it is.  Did you know you can get a whole body rash from strep.  The call it Scarlet Fever.  Didn’t people die from that in the last hundred years or so?  At the very least, I know people went blind from it.  I certain I remember Mary, the oldest sister on Little House on the Prairie, went blind from Scarlet Fever. 

Thus, I visited a Minute Clinic.  Going blind is my worst nightmare.

I’m feeling much better today, thank you all for your kind words.  It seems no one really dies from strep throat, no matter how enticing the prospect may have seemed yesterday.  Several doses of pennecillian as seen to that. 

 Now if I could just find the little weasel that exposed me to it in the first place.  I suspect it was one of the wretched little kids from the school.  I didn’t use any sick days for myself.  I know that’s horrible of me and you can all write me hateful comments, but by the time I was diagnosed I got three doses of antibiotics in me before I returned to work.  I have to save up MY sick days for when the kids are sick.

Or for when I have real trouble with my eyes.  You know, when you just can’t see yourself going to work.