Granny's gone and done it again

[BigBlueHen53]

Typos ... arthritis

 

[Granny Hatchet]

Thank you Granny, but it's okay it was temporary. Momma worked her butt off to get us in a better situation. Part of the "getting away from awful father" saga, as he used a lot of financial and religious strings to try to control everyone.
I feel worse for folks who can't get away, or feel like they can't, or who have family exerting emotional pressure to keep them from making choices of their own.
I worry and I hope that you feel like you have the freedom to make changes if you ever decide on that course for yourself. Of course I simply don't know enough about your situation, but with your sons condition and the family farm and your husbands health... it just seems like a scenario where you might feel stuck.

Maybe I do but your right, there's no out for me right now and I would not pick it if I could. I love them both too much it would feel like I abandoned them.

 

[microchick]

Good grief! Thanks for the heads-up, microchick! I knew strep could have serious consequences like you describe but I figured if we caught it early and took care of it right away we'd be in good shape. What do you recommend we watch out for? My granddaughter is 23 years old and this seems to be a mild case. She has a sore throat but no other symptoms. She didn't complain of that "razor blade in the throat" feeling like I usually get, and she isn't complaining of headache or body ache, either. Just feeling a little under the weather. She thought the sore throat was due to congestion and sinus drainage so she took some Robitussin and gargled with saline yesterday. This morning she looked down her throat and reported the white patches so I said, yup, that's strep! and sent her to urgent care to get a Rx. Her brother is away at academy so she's the only one sick so far. But she's a hugger so ... I may be next, lol.

Funny thing was I never had the razor blade sensation either. Just an aching throat and worse, a very stiff neck along with fever both times.

Symptoms are pretty general. A feeling of un-wellness. Low grade late afternoon fever, migrating joint pain with swelling and redness and bone crushing fatigue for me. It took me almost 10 years before the symptoms finally left me but RF stays with you for life.

A few years back the doctor did a battery of lab tests on me and the nurse called because one of the tests, an antibody titer for streptococcus bacteria came back positive. RF is basically caused by an antibody reaction to strep virus so they were worried that I had a strep throat. I assured them I didn't and they had told me when I was 23 that I would show positive for that as long as I lived. Afterwards I was on Penicillin for almost 15 years along with aspirin the latter causing damage to my stomach lining. Yeah, it's a life changer for sure.

Scary thing about RF is that it can also cause cardiac involvement during the active phase which is what happened to me.

Strep can also cause scarlet fever. Another fun disease. Not. Thing is that it's rarely seen in adults which they said is why it went harder on me.

So yeah, take the antibiotics but just keep an eye on things afterwards. I sure hope you don't get it. Even without RF or SF, strep throat is no fun.

 

[SourRoses]

Maybe I do but your right, there's no out for me right now and I would not pick it if I could. I love them both too much it would feel like I abandoned them.

Huggies

 

[Granny Hatchet]

Gnight Larry

 

[BigBlueHen53]

That's why I'm surprised Blue and her family have been through it so much. Yeesh!

I guess we get mild cases. GC has had it 2 or 3 times .. I haven't had it in years but I guess I've had it at least 3 - 4 times in my life. I think they give me the z-pac for it, Azithromycin if I remember correctly. One year around 2001 or so I had strep and the flu at the same time, whew THAT was a whole lot of no fun! I was sick for about 3 weeks, ugh! And that was when I was still fairly young, in my mid 40's.

 

[Granny Hatchet]

gonna heat my coffee up and set the pot for AM. BB

 

[BigBlueHen53]

Funny thing was I never had the razor blade sensation either. Just an aching throat and worse, a very stiff neck along with fever both times.

Symptoms are pretty general. A feeling of un-wellness. Low grade late afternoon fever, migrating joint pain with swelling and redness and bone crushing fatigue for me. It took me almost 10 years before the symptoms finally left me but RF stays with you for life.

A few years back the doctor did a battery of lab tests on me and the nurse called because one of the tests, an antibody titer for streptococcus bacteria came back positive. RF is basically caused by an antibody reaction to strep virus so they were worried that I had a strep throat. I assured them I didn't and they had told me when I was 23 that I would show positive for that as long as I lived. Afterwards I was on Penicillin for almost 15 years along with aspirin the latter causing damage to my stomach lining. Yeah, it's a life changer for sure.

Scary thing about RF is that it can also cause cardiac involvement during the active phase which is what happened to me.

Strep can also cause scarlet fever. Another fun disease. Not. Thing is that it's rarely seen in adults which they said is why it went harder on me.

So yeah, take the antibiotics but just keep an eye on things afterwards. I sure hope you don't get it. Even without RF or SF, strep throat is no fun.

In 2014 I had an emergency ERCP, a procedure for a blocked common bile duct, away from home in Lincoln, NB. A month later I went septic from some dye from that procedure that pooled in my body somewhere and I had to have another procedure in St Louis, 3 hr from home. DH drove there every night for a week. I nearly died and I just felt so peaceful. I didn't realize how sick I was. That was 10 years ago and I am just now regaining my health and strength and stamina -and my joy and enthusiasm for life. I have felt like an old, old woman! But now I feel 50 again (I'm 71) These things take a toll!

 

[SourRoses]

One year around 2001 or so I had strep and the flu at the same time, whew THAT was a whole lot of no fun!

That sounds incredibly not fun!

This last Jan-Feb I was sick for a long time, first with Covid, then the flu, with a persistent ear infection the whole time.
I was shocked when they told me the Flu. Mom and I never get that! And I was a flight attendant at one point so I felt like I had been exposed to everything.

I've resigned myself to getting a flu shot for the first time this fall. Just can't deal with all of that again. And I usually snort at the flu shot and its low efficacy, but our nice Doctor Sam is very persuasive and she says it's a better shot than it used to be.

 

[SourRoses]

A month later I went septic from some dye from that procedure that pooled in my body somewhere and I had to have another procedure in St Louis, 3 hr from home.

Yikes! It sounds like they did something wrong in your first surgery!

Is that bile duct on the way to the gall bladder or is it to the stomach? Mom had her gall bladder out a long time ago, and her mother before her, so she always warned me about it, but so far so good. I tell her it's because I don't eat greasy Australian Meat Pies and Sausage Rolls... she just snorts at me.