It Must Be February

It must be February. I’m grateful that I haven’t gotten super sick in a long time. About a year to be exact. I don’t know what it is about the end of January, first part of February, but almost every year I get a horrible sore throat. Last year it was a bad case of Strep. This year? Well the jury is still out on what’s going on with me! I went to work two weeks ago with a sore throat. I didn’t have a fever. The only thing wrong with me was my throat. I thought maybe it was allergies, so I donned my mask and went about my day. I got home late from work and my throat felt worse. I woke up in the middle of the night with my throat on fire. Felt like I was swallowing a fire poker. My work offers Teledoc through our insurance, so I figured, it was worth the $45 to set up a call with a doctor. Within an hour I was on the phone with one of their doctors. She was very helpful. Did you know that you can actually buy Rapid Strep A tests on Amazon?! This was defintely news to me! She thought it was viral. Advised me to get a Strep test just in case, and told me to get a nose spray and some allegry pills. If the test came back positive I was suppose to call back and they would call me in a perscription. She called in a perscription for a lidocaine gargle for my throat. Not a fan. Was so thick I couldn’t get it to gargle, so I ended up choking on the medicine and then puking. Not fun when your throat is already on fire. Nothing was seeming to help. I tried everything. My favorite go to has definitely been hot water, with lemon and honey. My sore throat turned out to not be strep and was viral, just like the Teledoc doctor said. The sore throat is gone, but this cough is still lingering on. Looks like I’ll be drinking more hot tea. Perfect on this cold winter night.