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=Getting Severe Strep Throat=

Have you ever had strep throat? If you have you know how painful it is and how sick you feel. Well try thinking about it being 10 times worse. That's how I felt when I got severe strep throat. Now its a long story so I'll only tell the most memorable part of it.

Well first off I caught it from putting on a football helmet that I'm guessing was used by someone really really sick because 3 days later I was more sick than I had ever been in my whole life. Now mostly what I did for a whole week was lay down on my couch and watch TV all day. Even though it only lasted five days it felt like five years. Now I know what your thinking, your thinking that it would be awesome to sit and watch TV all day well the thing is I only have like 12 channels and during midday I had to watch the news because I was so sick that I couldn't change the channel or call my mom to change it. Finally there came a day I had been dreading, the day I was so sick I couldn't breathe. I knew something was wrong the instant I woke up. The first sign was that I was gasping for air. I was alone downstairs because the night before I was so sick I couldn't make it upstairs. So maybe an hour later which was spent in complete misery my mom woke up. She asked me what was wrong and I barely gasped out "I can hardly breathe". That's when my mom said she was taking me to the hospital. My first thought was that there were going to do a lot of painful stuff like shots and anastesia. So I told my mom I didn't want to go because the trip there would make it worse (which was a lie) but she demanded that I go so I didn't waste my breath arguing with her.

Now I was at the point where I could barely walk so my mom allowed me to slump down on her arms and she would prop me up. First my mom took my temperature and it was 104.5 which made my mom even more worried.It felt like hours just mosying to the car. Finally after a big struggle I got myself plumped in the chair. By then my head was throbbing and my eyesight was foggy. When my mom started the engine it got worse. Even the soft rumble and humming of the engine was making me nauseus. That's when I really started to worry about if I was going to make it to the hospital. As you probably guessed I was wheezing like a dog by then I mean you can't blame me. Then my mom started talking to me I can't remember exactly what she was saying but I remember her telling me multiple times" We're almost there you'll be okay", but I really doubted both. Now I was starting to hallucinate. I was seeing red white and blue stars all around me and I was seeing black dots swarm around me.

The next thing I remember I was in a wheelchair being pushed into the Children's Hospital. I could scarcely hear patients crying all around. I could also hear the soft squeaking of the wheelchair and the big wood door click behind me. The nurse hauled me onto the weird couch thing that was sitting in there. The nurse called the doctor in and mumbled something to him and then something to my mom. My mom nodded and explained to me that I was going to get a shot that would help enormously and would completely cure me. A minute or two later I felt the cold sharp needle being inserted into my skin. Then I felt the cool liquid being oozed into my wrist and then the the searing pain that I could barely stand. I opened my eyes and my mom asked me how I felt. Surprisingly I felt better already. I could for sure breathe so much better and I could see perfectly. I still felt nauseaus and weak but those few moments felt like heaven. After a while of just sitting there my mom told me we could leave. When we got home the first thing I asked my mom was if I could play with my neighbors. But of course she said I needed rest to cool my body down because I still had a fever. Even though that wasn't true I still didn't argue.

Over the next few days I was completely normal again. I was also very surprised that the shot had helped so much because every other time I'd been sick when I got a shot it took me days to feel even the slightest bit better but I guess it was because it was the hospital and not the doctors office. Now all I have to do is wait for the next football season.

What I learned from getting strep throat is that you should never want to get sick. I know most kids want to get sick to miss school and I'll admit I used to do it all the time. I was sick during the Summer and I'd rather be sick then then during the school year because then you miss your friends and you miss work during the day. So now I try and fight off when I get sick because I'll always remember the day I got severe strep throat.