UPDATUM

Well, it's not strep, as it turns out, or at least not strep A. This goes some way toward explaining why the penicillin seems to be doing sweet fuck-all. Possibilities are:

A - It's some other strain of strep (and there is still a chance it will respond to the penicillin, I just have to keep taking it)
B - It's viral
C - It's some whole other shit

I'm hoping it's A and not B or C. Or if it's C, I hope it's something bacterial that the proper drug will kill. I still swivel between feeling within 60% of normal to just terrible. That usually happens at night, actually. I am advancing my ice pack technology even as we speak.