I don't know what's worse - having a cold, or the cold medication you take to alleviate the symptoms.
At any rate, I went back to work at the school on Wednesday and typically, found myself wiped out by the end of the day.
Since then:
1. Megan, who seemed to be recovering from her cold nicely, turned up with a fever Thursday night. Yesterday morning, she awoke with a sore throat - so I rushed her to the doctor (they have walkin hours where you don't need to make an appointment from 8 to 9). The doctor saw a little redness but chalked that up to the cold and was going to leave it at that. I reminded her that Megan has had the cold for six days and the fever and sore throat just started. "I guess we could do a throat culture," she said. Sure enough, she came up positive for strep.
I am so glad I was insistent -- otherwise, we would have gone all weekend with Megan feeling progressively worse, and I would have had to go back on Monday and do it all over again before getting a scrip for an antibiotic.
Now I'm watching to make sure the amoxicillin works. We've had bouts with ear infections where that particular drug wasn't effective, and I would have to take her back and replace it with something stronger (usually augmentin). I decided to take my chances this time -- amoxicillin is covered by our insurance and costs me just $7.50. The last time Megan took augmentin, I had to pay $50. So my fingers are crossed this will do the trick.
2. Gareth, who announced that he didn't see the attraction in blogging, actually went back into his new Blogger and played with the template and added a profile and another little post. I may end up with a partner in crime yet.
3. My 17-year-old niece left this week for a field trip to the Inauguration in Washington. She's been sending me photos from her cameraphone, and I'm going to attempt to post them here (if I can get moblogging to work - it used to, but stopped suddenly a while back and I haven't worked out why.)
4. Today, BBC Wales is broadcasting an all-star benefit concert for the Tsunami victims, with several stars of the British music scene. The venue, Millennium Stadium is in Gareth's home town of Cardiff, so he was pretty excited about it. While it is not being carried live here on BBC America (missed opportunity!), we were able to find the live webcast. As of this posting, Keane is finishing their set. Gareth is looking forward to Eric Clapton - he used to play tennis with Clapton's backup guitarist, Andy Fairweather-Low, another Cardiff native. See the concert now at http://www.bbc.co.uk/wales/music/sites/tsunamireliefcardiff/.
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