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Nov. 13th, 2010 12:01 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
The what-is-that-even condition. The 'everyone in school had it' condition. The abstract, unknown disease that has never struck me down. UNTIL NOW.
So this week has been fun. The fever segued nicely into this weird blister at the end of my tongue. It was pretty painful and I couldn't remember burning it the previous night, but ho hum. It'd be gone soon.
Well, eating got a little hard. See, my gums felt all tender. And my throat hurt in this weird way. My tongue also decided on a nice furry lining. And my breath went rancid.
After a couple of days where I consumed approximately 300 calories, in liquid form, I made an emergency appointment with the doctor. I got to see the nurse practitioner instead, who diagnosed herpes. HERPES? WTF, woman? The blisters maybe would point to that, but the furry tongue, my throat?
Anyway, Doctor!Aunt happened to visit that night and agreed that the nurse was an idiot and that it's tonsillitis. Which is all fine and good, except I can't treat it with much except painkillers and a nice explosion of mouthwash whenever I'm feeling particularly sadistic or disgusted by the taste of Illness. Will this ever end, flist? WILL IT? Have any of you ideas on ways to punish my mouth or hasten the end of this minging condition?
I would desperately love to eat more than 500 calories one day. And something other than yoghurt.
Also, I temped for a housing company for a few hours on Thursday and Friday and attended a job interview. I had to find excuses to stay as far away from people as possible and answer with a closed-mouth 'mmmm' every time they came near me with advice. Hardc0re. Also, painful and sweaty. :(
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Date: 2010-11-13 12:58 pm (UTC)I would suggest some kind of analgesic (duh), warm liquids even though swallowing must hurt like hell and warm salt water gargles as often as you like. Maybe throat spray to numb the area for like... 2 seconds of relief? Every little bit of relief is good. :P
Feel better quickly.
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Date: 2010-11-13 01:47 pm (UTC)I've been refusing to try warm salt water thus far because I know it'll be an explosion of pain, but I think I need to do something! Throat spray sounds so awesome right now, ohmigod.
I just wanna be better! Do you ever get the paranoid feeling, halfway through an illness, that you're never, ever going to be normal again? D:
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Date: 2010-11-13 02:25 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-11-13 02:27 pm (UTC)I may have moaned out loud a few times this week that I'm going to die. But I was srsly worried about not eating in case I had a heart attack or something crazy! ;_;
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Date: 2010-11-13 02:51 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2010-11-13 04:50 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-11-13 05:09 pm (UTC)I hope you get better soon, tonsilitis sucks. I used to get strep throat a lot as a teenager and I remember how awful it was. At least you're home and not in a foreign country though. Being sick away from home is even more of the pits.
*hugs*
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Date: 2010-11-13 05:12 pm (UTC)But well, if you're home-ridden and get bored and wanna talk to someone to kill time, I'll be hovering round msn while I cook. Vegetables. Many of them. I is slave.
And I can totally spam your mind with inane American musical comedy shows.8Dno subject
Date: 2010-11-13 07:06 pm (UTC)Anyway the doc put me on... i think it was penicillin? Something that starts with a P anyway and that seemed to eventually get rid of it enough that i was okay to go to Glasto still.
Hope you feel better soon MS xxx
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Date: 2010-11-13 09:37 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-11-14 06:47 am (UTC)I also like to chew on those hard strong licorice dimes and get the saliva flowing which helps.
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Date: 2010-11-15 09:53 am (UTC)keep taking vit tablets and drink lucozade and chocolate.