This morning, on the way back from taking Kitten to her swim lessons, I swung by the store and picked up some chloroseptic spray, at Margie’s request. Her throat was killing her.<\/p>\n
She did the appropriate spritzing, but didn’t feel much relief. She looked at the instructions in more detail, and noted it said that it shouldn’t be used in conjunction with a fever. <\/p>\n
So this afternoon, she called the advice line at KP, and they opined that if her throat hurt that much, and she had a fever, she should probably go in and pay them a visit. And she did, and they ran some quick tests, and determined that (yes, you guessed it) she has strep throat.<\/p>\n
“Yeesh,” I said, as I was riding the shuttle bus to the rental car lot, talking with her on my cell phone.<\/p>\n
“So if you find your throat hurting, you should go see a doctor immediately,” she told me.<\/p>\n
My throat immediately started feeling scratchy. “My throat is automatically feeling scratchy,” I told her.<\/p>\n
I could hear her shake her head. “No, you’ll know <\/i>if it’s hurting like this.”<\/p>\n
Joy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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