November 10: Blah, Sick.

Tray has been sick with a cold since last Wednesday. I've been trying to avoid catching his cold, and so far neither Penny nor I have caught it. However, on Tuesday I tried to go swim like normal, and just could not seem to get going. I probably swam half of what I normally do, and in shorter intervals. I chalked it up to poor nutrition that day, and the after effects of having gone running with a (much faster) friend on Monday. She and I were supposed to meet up yesterday to swim after work/classes. Well, I woke up yesterday morning with that distinctive "cold-coming-on" feeling of sore throat and achy legs that I always get with a cold. I stopped by Walgreens on the way to work and took some cold medicine and some tylenol and hoped I'd feel better in time for our swim. By the time I got done with my class that afternoon I was really feeling the sore throat and decided to call things off. When I got home, I took my temperature. Fever? Check. I looked in the mirror at my throat and immediately sat down and googled images of strep throat. My throat looked exactly like strep. So, I went to the doctor this morning. The nurse said, "It's strep." The doctor said, "It's strep." The strep test said, "It's not strep." So I was sent home with a diagnosis of viral tonsillitis. And all I could think was, "here we go again." Back in 1999 I had three bouts of this back to back and the last one put me in the hospital for almost 4 days. Here's hoping I wake up tomorrow feeling better. And that I don't actually have strep despite the test that I am now spreading throughout the household. Ugh.