When I was in sixth grade, I got strep throat. It was horrible, but I got to stay home from school for a week (because I had a fever the whole time and when you had a fever, you had to stay home) and read “Flowers In The Attic”. Then I had another two weeks off for Christmas break.
It seems that 22 years later, history is repeating itself. No, I haven’t gotten to stay home for a week (in fact my throat only started hurting on Sunday), but I do have strep, and now I also have vacation. So yay!
Today: Our staff went to a local diner for breakfast (it was delicious. And my two eggs, hashbrowns, sausage, toast, and tea cost less than $5. Of course my throat acted as a pretty effective appetite suppressant, but the food was good and when I’m feeling better I’ll drag Rob there). There are 40 teachers on staff, plus custodians, secretaries, administration, EA’s… so it was pretty crowded. Afterwards we went back to school for presentations to anyone who was retiring or leaving to go to another school or whatever. And, since I (with plenty of Rob’s help) had finished cleaning up my classroom yesterday, I had nothing left to do so I went and helped the Sewing teacher cut fabric for the next two hours.
There is a baby shower this afternoon for a staff member, but I thought it would be a better idea to go to the walk-in clinic and get myself checked out. Which I did. And so now I have my freedom, but I also have little horrible strep animals living in my body, strepping it up. But I get to take penicillin for it. Strep while you can, streps, because I am going to keeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeel you!
Well no wonder!!! It’s perfectly acceptable to cry if you have strep throat – that hurts like hell!!