I'm feeling like crap... I woke up yesterday morning with a sore throat and a slight fever, which became more of a fever. It all kicked off a massive fibromyalgia flare as well, which meant I spent the entire day at a 1-10 pain scale level of about 8. All I could do about it was take ibuprofen and ask Hubby for hugs after he got home from work.
This morning, I woke up with considerably lessened pain...except for my throat, which had gotten worse. And I still had a fever. I get sore throats sometimes with my allergies or a cold, or if I have trouble swallowing one of my medications and it gets stuck in my throat, but I almost never have a fever. So since I was physically capable of moving and driving, I went to the nearest urgent care and was diagnosed with strep throat. Which seriously sucks. Alt gets strep and bronchitis 2-3 times apiece every year, and I always manage not to catch it from her. But on Wednesday, I had to take Country to her pediatrician, and there were coughing, hacking kids there refusing to wear the masks they're supposed to wear if they're coughing, and the parents were saying "Okay, honey, you don't have to wear it if you don't want to", so I'm pretty sure that's where I got the strep from.
The suckiest part, though, is on Friday I felt totally fine...so I went out to lunch with Woody, then he came back to my place and we snuggled a bit on the couch. Which means he probably has it as well. I feel massively guilty about that, even though I couldn't have predicted on Friday that I would wake up sick yesterday... I called him yesterday to give him a heads-up, and now I have to call him again to let him know it is definitely strep. And I'm afraid he's going to be angry with me, which is one of those irrational fears that I'm gonna feel anyway until proven otherwise.