Mere and strep throat:
Mere came down on Wednesday and Thursday with a high fever, and the doctor concluded that it was strep throat; I had to keep my extreme distance until she was no longer massively contagious. She ended up being allergic and breaking out in hives with amoxycillin, but she’s on something else now, and it seems to be working. She has had a lot of trouble taking the stuff, however, because all of these antibiotics taste like moldy crap (which is what they’re made from, of course) and very bitter. Flavoring doesn’t really help much, and Susan has had a heck of a time with getting Mere to take it.
Mere’s also got a killer gag reflex, like mine, to the point that neither of us can handle wildly mixed textures in food (nuts in ice cream, say) without wanting to *bleargh* all over the place. So she’s trying to learn how to swallow pills by practicing on Tic-Tacs.
She’s feeling better, by the way.
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