Yesterday morning, I woke up with a very sore throat. I took care of Charlie all day yesterday, hoping my sore throat would go away, but it just got worse. Around 4, I finally decided to go into fast care at Hy Vee. I was supposed to have teacher workshops today, so I wanted to get on drugs if I needed them! Charlie had to come with me, since Tony was quite sick. The nurse practioner wasn't the friendliest about my sore throat. She basically told me, it looks fine, go home. I told her my niece was diagnosed with strep throat, and all but demanded they do a strep test. Apparently Mayo Rochester only does the 8 hour strep test now. SO, my results weren't in until 1:30am. When I called in at 4:30 (I woke up from extreme throat pain), I tested positive for strep. I had my prescription sent to Weber and Judd in Stewartville, so I looked up when they opened. They don't open until 9am! Ugh...I had several more hours to wait and feel like junk. Needless to say, I had to call in sick to work, on a workshop day! My administrator was very understanding, thank goodness!
A huge positive in this whole ordeal is that I had set up childcare for Charlie with Laur and Jill. They were going to come over to our house, but since we're under the weather, they drove all the way to our house and then took Charlie home with them! My mom is picking him up after she's done with work! We were very lucky to have the entire day to recuperate and let Charlie stay away from the germs.
After all that sick talk, here are some pictures I took of Charlie yesterday. I was starting to get very sad about having to go back to work today, so I wanted to document our play time! Lucky for me, I get to stay home on Monday as well since the governor closed all public schools on Monday!
Charlie has been very interested in his books the past few days. We've done lots and lots of reading and flipping through the pictures.
Someone noticed I took my camera out.
Hamming it up!
He found some more books!
Charlie can't get enough of this car toy from Grandma Cher and Grandpa Alan. He loves honking the horn!
A quick video with his clapping. It's hard to capture it because he wants to come and steal the camera from me!
Here's some info I've learned the hard way. You can file this away for next time :) Mayo Express care lab samples are only picked up twice a day, lunch time and closing time. Samples from downtown (ie, when I take the kids to Baldwin) are delivered to the lab a minimum of once hourly. SO, if you can't get to Express Care before lunch, try to get in with your primary for faster results! Natalie's results were back in 4 hours. I hope this will help for next time! I've pretty much ruled out Express Care based on this fact, and the rude attitudes I've encountered almost every time. They have been totally awful with the kids. I won't take the kids back there unless it's absolutely necessary.
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