Strep… But Make It Unexpected 🙃
🌼 Date: Friday, March 20, 2026
⚡ Energy: Annoyed but amused
❤️🩹 Status: Switching antibiotics (again… because why not?)
😉 Outlook: Rolling with it… because that’s what we do
So today’s episode of “What Fresh Hell Is This?” comes with a fun little twist…
I got a message from my doctor saying the culture from my specimen came back…
Positive for strep.
Now… let me just pause right there.
Strep?
As in… strep throat’s cousin??
Because I don’t know about you, but my entire life I thought strep was strictly a throat-only situation.
Like… sore throat, no voice, popsicles, and complaining level 10.
Apparently…
that is not the case. 😳
Because surprise! You can, in fact, get strep in the downtown region.
Who knew?
Not me.
Definitely not me.
So today’s lesson is:
👉 The human body is wild
👉 Chemo lowers your defenses enough that bacteria just start freelancing wherever they want
👉 And apparently… strep does not respect boundaries 😆
Now what does this mean for me?
It means the antibiotic I just started for my UTI…
is not effective against the strep.
So we’re switching things up to a new antibiotic that can handle both the UTI and the strep.
Which translates to:
🚗 Another trip to the pharmacy
💊 Another round of meds
🙄 Another “are you kidding me right now?” moment
But hey… at least we caught it, right?
And we adjust.
We pivot.
We keep moving forward.
Because that’s what this journey has been from day one—
Adapt and overcome… one weird medical surprise at a time.
Now, on a MUCH better note…
We got to go out to dinner tonight with a couple of people from work 🥰
And let me tell you—
after all the appointments, meds, and medical randomness…
Just sitting down, laughing, and having a normal conversation felt like a little slice of old life.
And I needed that more than I realized.
So today wasn’t all bad.
It was just… educational 😆
Moral of the story?
You really can learn something new every day…
Even if you didn’t ask to.
💗 Tina –
One Badass Day at a Time
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