*headdesk*

Ana was having chest fluttering yesterday, so Jenn took her to the doctor. And the doctor said she has just fought off strep with apparently no symptoms until that. (Seriously?)

I was feeling fine until Jenn told me this. Immediately I began to feel a rash on me, bumpy like strep. Well, I can be a hypochondriac too, so I tried to ignore it. The more I ignored it, the more my throat started to feel sore. Psychosomatic.

I woke up this morning still rashy, and now slightly itchy... and Jenn said I'm rashed up all over my chest and face, because by this point I didn't trust my own ability to tell.

Yup. I'm sick. With strep. So let's hie me to the doctor!

Joy. *sighs*

First, I couldn't find my bra.

So I went without, which... I would rather have not.

(It wasn't urgently necessary to look at my chest and stomach anyway, so go me!)

The doctor agreed that there's a good chance it IS strep, because Ana has it... but it's a little asymptomatic and the strep test didn't come up positive. The rash doesn't entirely look like strep rash in particular, and strep isn't usually (though google says it can be) itchy. (Itchy is a bad word for how it feels, but I don't have another one. Bad tingly, sorta. It's not like anything I've ever experienced, exactly, but it's not horrendously painful.) So I got a prescription for antibiotics (just in case it's strep) and one to treat the rash (in case it's not, or it's strep AND something).

The one for the rash is insanely complicated, to be taken over six days - take two before breakfast, one after lunch and dinner, one before bed on the first day. The next day take ONE before breakfast, one after lunch and dinner, one before bed. Every day the set of pills declines by one... and they taste HORRIBLE. Like earwax, but a dozen times worse at least. Blech. I have no idea how I can lose that taste in my mouth.

And the amoxicillin is HUGE. Ugh.

All I can say is this had damn well better be the right medicine to fix things. I couldn't even find the marzipan to drown my sorrows in.