You Get What You Ask

the day i ask what strep throat is, i manage to get it. well, technically i didn't find out until today but i can say i had it all along. but wait, it's contagious!? dang it, probably should not have drank wendy's orange juice right out of the carton...or drink yaru's delicious home made soup right out of the rice cooker... oh god and phoebe's toothbrush, really should not have used that... sorry roomies

anyways joking aside, my strep throat is apparently a very odd case. first of all, only my left tonsil is inflamed, all red and bulged out like a fat man's beer belly while the right one is perfectly fine, having its beauty sleep. second of all, i have no other symptoms. in most cases, people with strep throat tend to have high fever and swollen lymph glands near the neck area. my only symptom is that i have this really ugly-looking tonsil. even the doctor was sure i didn't have strep throat, but after five minutes into doing the test, results showed that i did indeed.

i was sad, upset. mainly because i'm supposed to have my dad's gene - strong immune system and a body that fights off everything. i rarely get sick and if i do, it's once a year. i guess this can count as my first official one and hope that i don't get sick the rest of the year. another thing, i'm all about natural healing. i've never taken advil/tylenol/penadol/any sort of pain killers in my life because i hate relying on pills. they're deadly in my eyes. but here i am having to take antibiotics, two tablets per day for friggin ten days. that's 20 pills. totally disrupting my no-pill doctrine. not happy.

it all started with my simple curiosity of what strep throat was because one of my friend got it. i never expected myself to actually get it. i suppose now i really know what it is. it's definitely not what i asked for but i sure did get my answer - the hard and painful way.

ps phoebe gets a shout out cause it's her birthday! :)