The Life I Chose to live

 So nearly a month ago I told yall I was sick. It turned out to be strep. Well 10 days on antibiotics and I started feeling better. I was left with this horrible feeling of a head cold and a post nasal drip that just would not pass, then started what felt like an ear infection... shortly followed by another fever.. so back to the emergency room I went.    Turns out that I had what the doctors are calling "the triad". It seems to be very common this year and they haven't quite figured out how to control it outside of a hospital setting.  I spent 2 days in the hospital under supervision,  super antibiotics (a mixture of penicillin and clindamycin), IV fluids, pain killers, and steroids.    When I went in I was struggling to swallow my own saliva much less any type of fluids or pills. I had a fever of 104+. And struggled to stay awake for any amount of time. I was lucky though. Unlike some that I had heard of, my fever broke within 12 hours. They were able to get the swellin

    Someone please tell me where Strep even originated. Friday evening I took a nap.. I felt fine when I laid down, just tired. But when I woke up I felt like crap. My body ached, my throat was dry and itchy, and I had this killer migraine. By the time I went to bed, I was in agony. I figured eh maybe not getting much sleep in the past week has finally caught up to me.     Saturday morning I tried to wake up but my eyes and head just weren't allowing it. I would wake up, the aches and pains were turmoil. My throat felt as if I had a thousand paper cuts. I felt light headed and just out of it. I was never able to keep my eyes open for more than 5 minutes without dozing off. So I finally checked my temperature.... 102.3. WTF was going on? So I took some meds, gargled salt water, attempted to soak to relieve the body aches, and still felt no better. So back to bed I went.      Then Brandi woke up with the same symptoms. So I stumbled to find a flashlight. I looked at her throat and I&