Tonsils and uvulas

I dislike attention of any kind. I'd rather "fly under the radar" if at all possible. It's the way I've always been. And since I'm a redhead "flying under the radar" is often impossible. People always seem to notice or comment on the red hair. It's just a hair color!

So when I went to the doctor a month ago with a sore throat and a swollen gland I just thought it was a routine thing. It turned out that I was a medical oddity-yay me! My tonsils were huge and required several medical staff members to come in and look at, maybe more like gawk at. I didn't mind the lookers, other than I was thinking each time I opened my mouth so they could see my monstrosity tonsils that my claim to fame was going to be ginormous tonsils-great. A proud thing for my grandkids to tell their kids some days!

With very little relief and a flair up I was next sent to an ENT (ears, nose throat specialist) last week. Not how I wanted to spend a Thursday afternoon with blood tests and a CT scan in addition to an exam that was less than pleasant. After numbing my nasal cavities which tasted bitter and felt like I had a constant runny nose that I could not feel, I then was treated to a scope being carefully inserted up my nose. It felt like the darn thing either tickled my tonsil or the back of my brain, one of the other! I got through it but it's not something I want to do again. But the one thing that kind of hit me, more than the "you're tonsils are huge" diagnosis was the "your uvula is caught behind your tonsil"! What?! That's what I'm feeling now?? I didn't know that was humanly possible! And I thought she was kidding. Wrong, it is and still is stuck.

Scans and blood tests all came back okay. So I just thought I'd cook along with the new antibiotics and start to feel better. My uvula would get unhooked and life would go back to a normal way with a dangly, hanging uvula-ah the simple things in life! Well, it is one week later with being on the new antibiotic and I'm still not better. Tonsils are swollen and my uvula is still not just hanging around like it is supposed to.

A made a quick stop by the school nurse today to see if my uvula was free but instead she tells me that not only are my tonsils huge and my uvula is caught but that I now have white spots on the tonsil my uvula is caught/stuck to. NO! This can't be happening. I started all of this a month ago with a shot and then some heavy duty antibiotics. Followed by my current and second round of antibiotics. How can I have the strep throat white spots?

So to sum things up, I have HUGE tonsils, which are entertaining to the medical world, a uvula which is caught and won't hang down like it's supposed to. (yes I've tried to reach back there and free it without gaging myself with no luck there) and NOW I've got white spots on my tonsils aka they are polka-a-dot, meaning I have strep throat.

I'm trying to keep my sense of humor while feeling like poo through all of this. I have learned not to assume that nothing else will happen with my tonsils, and life for that matter, as I've about had it with them. I wish they would magically disappear and I'm fearful I'm going to hear those words "they need to come out" uttered sometime along the way. No!

So I'm going to coast through the rest of my Monday and try to manage not to increase on my tonsil situation in any other ways. I just want this junk gone and back to plain, simple, normal. Appreciate the little things in life, like normal sized tonsils and the little hangy thing in the back of your throat hanging rather than being caught!! It's the little things in life!!

Positive thought of the day: Thank goodness for the nicer weather, espcially when you have a fire alarm go off!!!