After spending 3 hours in Urgent Care this morning, turns out that both Emeline and I have strep. Mine is pretty bad. Like, my tonsils are touching bad. Pain so bad I haven't eaten or slept in two days and the very nice doctor gave me Vicodin and mega-ibuprofren.

Oh, yuck. I hope you're both better soon.

Do your tonsils look like Kermit eyes, Aims? And you haven't collapsed semicomatose into bed from lack of sleep? Poor Aims. I hope the drugs do their job well and quickly.

I wouldn't be awake long enough to be bored.

Thanks. Em's doing better than her mother, for sure. My fever has gotten up to about 102, whereas Em's has stayed below 100. I know that getting chiken pox as an adult is a lot harder to handle, but I wonder if that true for most "childhood" illnesses cause damn this strep has knocked me the eff out.

Ticket to Ride is a great social game, especially with four people. I'm a little burnt out on it now, but it's well designed. I recommend getting the 1910 expansion - it's better balanced with the extra routes and with a "Most routes completed" bonus.

Heh. We also talked about (a) that you liked it and (b) Raq did not. So Buffistas were with us as we played.

I need to play it more often than once every two years because if I remembered the rules better I wouldn't have taken that extra 11 pt. ticket that I had to eat. And I would have come in second.

I'm still in bed and have been since Thursday at 7:30pm. I've napped on and off today since getting the lovely meds, so I'm doing pretty ok.

(((Aims and Em)))

I'm sorry, Aims. I hope the meds kick the strep for you and Em quickly.

Yuck, Aimee. I hope you and Em get well soon.

Ugh Aimee, my memory is that strep is an unpleasant bear no matter what your age.

Get well soon~ma for Aims and Em.