I have strep throat–AGAIN. Yesterday afternoon I noticed my throat was a little bit sore. It started just like last time–it hurt on one side, and the back of my throat just felt swollen. I thought I would watch it for the night, and if it kept getting worse, I’d go in and get a culture.

I got up around 1:00am and had to take some Ibuprofen because it was hurting so badly. I woke up in the morning feeling pretty good. I was a little tired, but besides my throat hurting I felt OK. But, by the afternoon I knew it was strep again.

I went to the clinic, and the strep screen was positive. Dr. Ferriter said that I probably never got rid of it last time. Apparenlty the PA I saw, didn’t give me the right dose of Biaxin. Nice! I’m on Zithromax now, so I am hoping that it goes away this time!

Emma and Ian were playing together really nicely this morning. Emma got a new Sleeping Beauty doll house that they were playing with. Then they started pretending. They went upstairs to find some dress up clothes. I went to look for them, and this is what I found!

I have been feeling a bit under the weather for the past few days. I felt a little more tired than normal, and at times I felt feverish. I just kind of ignored it and kept doing my normal things ;-)Last night I woke up with a terrible sore throat. I just kept thinking that it was no big deal. We went to the NC Zoo, and it was a real struggle for me. When we got home, I just had to go to the doctor. I found a walk in clinic and sure enough, I had a postive strep screen. Ugh. My throat is killing and my head is pounding. I am going to bed!

I posted about Emma starting Kindergarten, but I never mentioned Ian. I wanted to give them each their own posts Ian started his first day of preschool on Monday too. He did great. I wasn’t really worried about the goodbyes, but he did even better than I expected. He went to Little Miners Summer camp for 2 weeks this summer, and I think that really helped. I walked him to the door with Emma and he just went right into his classroom. He hardly even said goodbye It was cute. He went right in and hung up his lunch box and started playing with something in his classroom. I kissed him goodbye and that was that.

I came back at 12:30pm to pick him up. He was playing on the playground and he didn’t want to leave! I saw Emma too and she she looked at me and said “Moooom, what are you dooing here?” She was afraid that I was going to make her come home too I didn’t get much of a report on how his day went, but he seemed to be doing well. He talked about his day and told me about playing “bad guy” on the playground. I asked him what he learned and he said he learned about peacemakers and Mahatma Ghandi!! I guess he was paying attention

I had a tough week this week! I had a major Ankylosing Spondylitis flare up. I had book group on Monday night. I was in so much pain, I could hardly walk. I couldn’t wait for everyone to leave because I was just hurting so much. When they left, I almost went to the clinic. But I decided to call first to see if there was anything they could do. There wasn’t……So I just called Scott and cried and told him what agony I was in. It was terrible. The next day I went to the clinic and saw Dr. Evers. He didn’t have much advice for me, but did give me a list of things to discuss with Becky. Then on Wednesday, I felt like I was getting Iritis again. Geez!! I went to see Dr. Fassio, and sure enough I have an early case. So now, I am using the Pred Forte eye drops, and hoping it will clear up quickly. Strangely enough, the SI joint pain seems to have gone away as quickly as it came. I can still feel it a tiny bit, but I am 99% better. I am just hoping it stays that way!!

It is a really nice morning. I am thinking about taking the kids to the zoo. But, I think Scott wants to go skiing. So, we will see…..