My two-day battle with Streptococcal pharyngitis

A pox on the person that gave me this! I woke up last Monday with 39.1 degree fever and sore throat and after a test the good doctor let me know the good news: "yorenkin" (strep throat).

Fortunately, after two days of being unable to eat anything exept jellies from a horribly swollen throat and only barely able to walk to the john (I fainted in mid-step and crashed into a wall in the middle of the night and scared the whole neighborhood), the antibiotics got the fever down and I felt good enough to take the kids up to Nagano as planned.

FYI,
一分で分かるヨウレン菌
http://www.yourenkin.com/cat4/post_4.html

Wikipedia on Strep Throat
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streptococcal_pharyngitis
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streptococcus

Makes you appreciate good health and the importance of basics like gargling and washing hands after coming home. Thanks for nursing me back to health Megu!