The progress

I will let you all participate in my misery, i.e. acute tonsilitis (halsfluss). I can feel it coming, and thought I'd blog the important hallmark time-points and symptoms. So if you never have had tonsilitis, or has forgotten what it feels like - here is your chance to become virtually infected by the bacteria!

Saturday 4.20 pm
No fever has arrived, instead a runny nose and lots of sneezing. So the bacteria theory has been thrown out the window - I'm glad I never started the round of antibiotics. I feel week, and frustrated that I can't go out walking, running and playing in the sunshine. I have to live vicariously through Melvin and Joding.

Friday 2.35 pm
Have slept since Joding made me breakfast at 9 am. I really want to go pick up his birthday gift, but it does not seem possible. And he says he doesn't mind not getting anything on his birthday, which probably is true. But I know I would! The two colonies are still there, and my throat is still very soar. Still no fever. I should probably start the antibiotics, but I want to make really sure of the diagnosis first.

Friday 6.20 am
Still awake, and the first sneeze departs my nose.

Friday 5.03 am
I wake up, and the first thing I sense is a sharp pain in my throat when I try to swallow, which is probably what woke me up in the first place. Starting to think about what it can mean for my planned work at the lab during the weekend, and for my weekend in general, I decide to put on my robe and get up - I cannot fall asleep just now. The anguish of still remembering what the mouth tasted like the last time streptococcus bacteria made a settlement, along with the bitter medication, is starting to worry me. I feel some sniffles, and I had to blow my nose (probably not for the last time for the next few days). I feel annoyed getting ill on my boyfriends' birthday - I still need to go down and pick up the gift that's finally back in stock, and I want to cook for him, and make it his day, not sitting around whining.The potential patch of tonsilitis colony is still there.

Friday 1.30 am
The soarness is still there when I'm turning off the lights to go to sleep. It's not painful, just an obvious hint. I shine a flashlight into my throat, and it looks a bit red, but it's hard to tell anything. I saw one patch of potential tonsilitis colony.

Thursday 11.05 pm
I notice I have a hint of soarness in my throat when I sit by the computer.


My first thoughts of trying to place blame has made their way into my head, now I'll carefully study incubation-times and in detail go through who I met when. My hope is to find the one that brought me this bacteria, and force them to buy me ice-cream and make me a nice cup of tea.