Flowers from Grandpa!

My Grandpa sent me flowers! They are beautiful!

Bye Tonsils

I got them taken out today. Now i am on the cold drink and mashed potato diet. I feel pretty crappy. But holy cow i looked in my throat and everything is white. Even my tongue. It is gross. But also WOW i had big Tonsils! I actually have a throat now! WOW! I was really not prepared for thinking it would be a real surgery with a gown and everything. I thought it would be like wisdom teeth where you just kinda pop in get the iv and do it. But noppppe. It took all day and was pretty legit. I had to wear a hair net and everything. And leg compressors. And bad socks they didnt even have heel spots. They also put my in this swank gown that puffed up and was warm. It was cool. But now here i am. SLeeping and drinking cold drinks. And taking ALL the drugs.

Say whaaat?

So my positive feelings and attitude about my tonsils turned out to be a bust. I went to the ENT doctor and he pretty much looked (after an hour of talking about housing market, financial aid, how to get a job, Stephen King, mouth guard things, his kids, art history, etc.*) ((*if even an etc could exist from this vast array of topics)) and said that YES they are quite large and it would be best to take them out. He said if i didn't they would just get worse and worse and cause sore throats and sickness and colds and make it harder to breathe, and act up at inopportune times. He said if i didn't have the surgery he would give me antibiotics and i could take them after they act up and cause problems but that it would never go away. GREAT.

So the surgery will take about 30 minutes and have a recovery time of 10-14 days. That's missing a lot of school. But he can do my tonsils and my nose surgery at the same time. WHAT. WHAT NOSE SURGERY!?!? Apparently ladies and gentlemen, the reason i breathe through my mouth is because my nasal cavities are TINY. So he wants to melt them somehow or something. But he can't do ALL of the things normally done in a plain nose surgery because he's not allowed or whatever. So if i really wanted to i could come BACK to finish the rest. WHAT. But he doesnt think i would need the other part. But the nose surgery would really help my sleep apnea. WHAT?! I have sleep apnea!? What is going on!?!?

Apparently I have:
Obstructive Sleep Apnea
Chronic Tonsillitis
Chronic Tonsillolith
Nasal Obstruction

GREAT! Just what i always wanted... So now i have to figure out when the heck i am going to do this all. I think what i am starting to realize is that the sooner that i do it will overall be better. And better to miss school early in the term than later. And not wait until next term when i have a bunch of teachers that i don't know. So Spring break wouldn't be long enough and would then kill any spring break plans. And summer is kinda out because of all the events that i have going on and then if something went wrong like an infection or something then it is a problem because of France. So CRAP! This sucks!!!

There is a ton of health benefits of doing it. But frankly it sounds like a real pain in the ass. Especially because like who is going to take care of me? So that sucks... And what about classes?

So i emailed all my professors saying i want to have meeting with them. But i think that the best thing to do is to move forward with it and get it done ASAP. Or else i know me and i will try to put it off for the rest of forever and then it will just get worse and worse.

P.s. I thought it was interesting about the nose thing that he could tell i don't breathe through it like EVER. After one look. Why did no one ever tell me to get this done before. My nose breathing is pathetic. I guess i will (pun coming up) breathe a little easier knowing it will be done and out of the way for France though.  :-)

Doctors...

So my tonsils hadn't improved and a couple nights ago i couldn't sleep because of a sore throat. It hurts when I swallow. So now that school started I went in to health services and told them the whole story. How i went to my primary doctor after one month and she did nothing and didn't test for anything and now it is about a month later and it isn't any better. She looked pretty skeptical at this point as to WHY they didn't even bother with a strep test just to rule it out. She said it costs like 5 bucks. Okay works for me! She said my throat is definitely irritated. And my left tonsil is VERY MUCH enlarged. She did a strep test and it was negative. Then she told me that she wants to refer me to an ENT (Ear Nose Throat) doctor. She ran my blood to rule out mono and see if something is going on in my blood work or i am fighting an infection. She also gave me some Penicillin to try for a week. If it gets better then YAY!!!!!! But if not then she suspects they will want to take them out... Which means surgery... Which means that I would also have to do recovery... In the middle of the term... Gross. SO i am hoping the antibiotics will get rid of it. At least I am telling myself it will.