I was collecting up some interesting things to share with the blog and then a minor disaster struck my minor. Today, we regale you with the Wednesday Night Bullet Post, now with more cocci...
- Neatnik is sick.
- Again.
- For the second time this summer.
- Okay, the last ailment was not exactly during the summer.
- It was during the last week of school. She had a stomach bug and so graciously shared it with me.
- But since the temperatures that week were rocking the mercury into summertime values, we are calling that week "summer".
- Neatnik had a really rough night and she got up this morning with a very raspy voice, a cough, tender glands, swollen tonsils, and a nice little fever.
- We scored our favorite doctor which sort of made up for the gagging during the swabbing.
- Yep, you guessed it: strep throat again.
- Bad year for strep locally.
- Ran several laps through school this year.
- Neatnik caught it each and every lap.
- Almost like snatching the brass ring except with more snot.
Caring for a coughing, sneezing, feverish, and clingy child is tiring under the best of atmospheric conditions. Take that same child sporting the same set of symptoms in 98°F heat, add a side order of excessive humidity, and you experience a whole new level of physical and emotional drainage.
You'll just have to take it on faith and trust me on this one, though I can offer this one bit of additional proof: I'm going to bed now and it's only just 9 o'clock.
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We had strep this year, too, only it got all the way to Scarlet Fever because they never got the white spots I was waiting for. My daughter even relapsed and had to have two rounds of antibiotics! Lucky she's only had them once before (in 12 years).
Hope the Neatnik feels better soon!
Oy! I'm saying prayers for the both of you!
Hope she feels better soon:(
When do they look at tonsil removal these days? I had mine out before I was 6, for repeated strep infections, but I'm not sure what constituted "repeated" 40 years ago!
Prayers for quick healing and cooling breezes.
I hope you both feel better soon! And that the heat breaks.
And... I read the title as coccyx at first. :D
Poor Trek & Neatnik. My BFF had strep throat every year of her life until she bit the bullet and had her tonsils removed at the tender age of 38.
There are much more enjoyable ways of catching the brass ring. I read the article. :)
Poor you - not the nicest way to spend the summer vacation :( And wishing Neatnik a very speedy recovery.
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