Funky feeling
For the last three weeks or more I've been under the weather. It started off with a sore throat, which though annoying and makes me whine a bit out of irritation still not sick enough to miss work. Then it progressed into what I'm fairly sure was a sinus infection, to be honest I think I had one from the start it was just sneaky and affected my throat prior to my nose. This lead me to keeping Ronnie up at night for two nights, as I was trying to hack up my left lung. Or my throat as I'm not sure that the mucus actually made it far enough into my lungs though at times my chest felt congested.
Finally I started feeling better last week, till my apparently weak immune system decided to show what a wuss it was. As for the second time in my life (last was July) my right tonsil swelled up significantly larger than the left tonsil. To the point that I could only open my mouth roughly one inch wide, without painfully prying my mouth open farther. Suffice to say, yesterday I stayed home. Waking up on the hour, every hour, had something to do with my decision as does my congested sounding voice. I wasn't able to get into see the doctor, but I did get to spend 20+ minutes on hold trying to get a hold of the doctors office so yay! Then over 35 minutes on hold with the pharmacy trying to see if my doctor had approved a refill on the prescriptions I used last time this happened. It left me very whiny and frustrated to the point of tears, the love of my life of course lacks in the sympathy department. At 6:30ish I got on the phone with the pharmacy and found that not only had my doctor gotten the message and approved the refills, but they were ready to go. YAY! I'm all drugged up and back at work today, feeling a bit better.
I did set up an appointment with an Ear Nose and Throat specialist to see what the cause of my problem is, as well as try and get approved to have my tonsils removed as they're always sore. I'm a little concerned though, the medicine that seems to stop the swelling on my right tonsil both times I've used it is primarily used for allergies. As a previous sufferer of childhood food allergies and sufferer of sinus/seasonal allergies I'm left wondering: "what now?" and "Will removing my tonsils fix everything or make it worse as I won't have forewarning to a series problem?"
Finally I started feeling better last week, till my apparently weak immune system decided to show what a wuss it was. As for the second time in my life (last was July) my right tonsil swelled up significantly larger than the left tonsil. To the point that I could only open my mouth roughly one inch wide, without painfully prying my mouth open farther. Suffice to say, yesterday I stayed home. Waking up on the hour, every hour, had something to do with my decision as does my congested sounding voice. I wasn't able to get into see the doctor, but I did get to spend 20+ minutes on hold trying to get a hold of the doctors office so yay! Then over 35 minutes on hold with the pharmacy trying to see if my doctor had approved a refill on the prescriptions I used last time this happened. It left me very whiny and frustrated to the point of tears, the love of my life of course lacks in the sympathy department. At 6:30ish I got on the phone with the pharmacy and found that not only had my doctor gotten the message and approved the refills, but they were ready to go. YAY! I'm all drugged up and back at work today, feeling a bit better.
I did set up an appointment with an Ear Nose and Throat specialist to see what the cause of my problem is, as well as try and get approved to have my tonsils removed as they're always sore. I'm a little concerned though, the medicine that seems to stop the swelling on my right tonsil both times I've used it is primarily used for allergies. As a previous sufferer of childhood food allergies and sufferer of sinus/seasonal allergies I'm left wondering: "what now?" and "Will removing my tonsils fix everything or make it worse as I won't have forewarning to a series problem?"