Strep Tease

This last week has been awful for me.  When I say awful I mean awfully painful.  Christmas Eve I started to get the chills and was not feeling so hot.  Pun intended, pa dum shhht.  I went to bed early and woke up Christmas morning with some pain in my throat, but nothing a farm gal like myself couldn't handle.  We opened presents, went to Grantsville and enjoyed our Christmas day.  My throat  was irritating and it was difficult to eat, but I love food so really nothing could stop me from eating.

Monday rolled around and my throat still  hurts, I've been eating cough drops like they are candy and I had been popping ibuprofen as well.  I went to the gym...shouldn't have though because I ended up getting my gym partner sick as well.  I came home and just kinda suffered through the day.  By Tuesday I was feeling like I was swallowing shards of glass.  My jaw was aching from clenching my teeth so tightly to swallow.  That night I had horrible night sweats.  I woke up drenched from head to toe & my sheets were soaked.  I am pretty stubborn when it comes to going to the doctor.  I have gone before when I thought I had strep only to be told I didn't.  So I don't go unless it's an absolute must.

Finally after some encouragement from my sister Deedra I made an appointment to see the doc.  Yep it was strep.  Ack!  Here I had been suffering for 3 long, miserable days and I could have been getting better!  I got started on the amoxicillin asap.  I was in bed all day long.  It was painful.  Finally after about 48  hours of amoxicillin my throat is feeling better, but it still hurts in my mouth.  It's hard to swallow and hard to talk.  Upon investigation I find my gums around my wisdom tooth on the bottom are inflamed, swollen and just yucky looking.  My ears are aching, my jaw is aching, my neck is aching, everything is aching & painful!

Friday morning I go to the dentist.  Which was pretty much useless.  He gave me some antibacterial mouthwash and told me to keep taking my amoxicillin.  And tells me I'll probably need my wisdom teeth removed.  I am all for removing those things, but guess what...it is now Sunday and my mouth still hurts.  The swelling in the gums has gone down a little, but it's still swollen and painful.

My mouth ruined my whole week almost ruined my New Years Eve, but Wes saved the day by bringing me some ice cream & diet coke.  A couple things I usually don't do, or try not to do very often is drink pop & take pills, but they seemed to have done the trick because I actually really enjoyed New Years Eve with my family.  We watched a few episodes of Home Improvement and Kamrie said, "Dad, this show is hilarious!." 

The thing that most upsets me about this is that Wes had the whole week off from work.  Which was a blessing so he could take care of the kids and me.  I was only good for moaning and drooling.  Drooling was less painful than swallowing of spitting.  But he had the week off so we could get a lot of things done around the house and so we could go visit both of our folks.  Well none of that happened.

That's my sad sob story.  I feel better already just writing about it.  Here's the hoping this week my mouth will heal!