Not the flu, but about a month ago I caught strep throat. Never had it in 45 years and I was out of town for a class when I caught it or I guess maybe I had already caught it and just wasn’t symptomatic on the drive down yet. I had NO idea strep made you that sick. I had an exam at the end of the week and I’m pretty sure about Wednesday of that week I died and came back as a zombie to finish the class. I could not believe how crappy strep makes you feel. My coworkers begged me to go a local medical clinic in Little Rock where we were but, nope, too stubborn, “I’ll be fine.” I was NOT fine...lol
I think I probably drank about a gallon of water every couple of hours and just kept burning it off. I caught merry hell from my wife on the phone and especially when I got back into town. She called it exactly right, told me it sounded like strep. “Nah, I’ve just got a bug, I’ll be fine.”.......Went to the med clinic on my way home after getting back to town Friday evening. The doc did a swab test and came back less than 5 minutes later. “You have a very bad case of strep and a fever of 102.5.”....I also drove us all back home from Little Rock...lol.
As soon as I got out out of my truck at home and staggered into the house with my Rx, I heard about it for the next couple of days, deservingly so. For anyone who has had strep, I get it now, point taken and appreciated. Blech!