A couple of nights ago, I ate a couple of bowls of cookies & cream ice cream (the fact that I ate a couple of bowls is topic for another discussion). I felt jovial and healthy beforehand, but afterwards, I got a severe sore throat. Instantly. Before ice cream, my throat felt happy and satisfied. After ice cream, at the snap of a finger, my throat got angry. I thought maybe the cookies in the ice cream irritated my throat, so I slept on it.

The next day, it got worse. My throat started screaming obscenities. I went through all day yesterday with the worst sore throat I have ever had, a splitting headache, and I completed the day by taking naptime in class. Today, the splitting headache continues, and I am fairly certain I have a fever, though I don’t own a thermometer to prove it. Not that it would make a difference anyways because my regular body temperature is not even 98.6. For example, if I go to the doctor, and they take my temperature, and it is somewhere around 99, I am told “oh, you will be fine!” When in actuality, I am not fine because my normal body temp is 97.5, so a 99-degree fever is quite a fever. Right now, I am guessing that my body temperature is between 99.5 and 100. So where do I buy a thermometer to find out for sure?

*NOTE*: I went and bought a thermometer … and the verdict is 101.8 +/- 0.2 (instrument error) :( no wonder i’ve been feeling so terrible :(