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[rebness]

Tonsillitis.

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. :(

Comments

[zhonghua2000.livejournal.com]

LOL... you need to ask that? Of course I get the paranoid feeling - not that I'll never be normal again - but that clearly, I am about to die. :(

[rebness.livejournal.com]

Hahaha. <33333333333

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! ;_;

[iskra667.livejournal.com]

I don't think you'll get anything serious not eating for a few days or even up to a week, if you still drink water normally. But maybe avoid driving if you're low on sugar, you don't want to loose concentration at the wrong time? hugs!!