Rob Bourgeois
01-04-2008, 7:10 AM
So i have been sick for a couple days. Started off as a normal cold or so I thought. It cleared up in the sinus and hit my throat. My throat started swelling and eating became difficult.( Anyone that knows me knows eating is never difficult for me)
So after a day or so of this and trying all sorts of meds I went see the docs. I had a tonsil that was so swollen and enlarged, he was amazed I could eat any solid food. He did a culture to determine I had strep. He started me on an aggressive treatment because he was worried i wasnt breathing enough and due to the possibility of an abscess behind the tonsil. A large shot of cortizone and some super antibiotic cocktail. I was told..if its not cleared up enough for you to have zero pain and no difficulty eating tomorrow...we will have to take your tonsils out due to it likely being an abscess behind the tonsil.
Well its tomorrow morning now.....I can drink and eat and I have hopefully put off what is supposed to be a fairly painful surgery to recover from in adults. Thank God for steriods...and what ever other super antibiotics I got. Now I got 2 big antibiotic pills every day. At least its not percocet and drooling after the surgery, as my boss explained about his tonsil removal he had..."worse pain ever during the healing"
So the moral of the story...go to the doc if you get sick and your throat is swelling and WASH YOUR HANDS to stop passing teh germs. I never realized I wasnt getting enough air until this morning.. I was huffing and panting after walking up the stairs, but not today. Now its "strep roullette "over here with my wife, 5 year old and 3 year old. Hopefully none of them get it.....
So after a day or so of this and trying all sorts of meds I went see the docs. I had a tonsil that was so swollen and enlarged, he was amazed I could eat any solid food. He did a culture to determine I had strep. He started me on an aggressive treatment because he was worried i wasnt breathing enough and due to the possibility of an abscess behind the tonsil. A large shot of cortizone and some super antibiotic cocktail. I was told..if its not cleared up enough for you to have zero pain and no difficulty eating tomorrow...we will have to take your tonsils out due to it likely being an abscess behind the tonsil.
Well its tomorrow morning now.....I can drink and eat and I have hopefully put off what is supposed to be a fairly painful surgery to recover from in adults. Thank God for steriods...and what ever other super antibiotics I got. Now I got 2 big antibiotic pills every day. At least its not percocet and drooling after the surgery, as my boss explained about his tonsil removal he had..."worse pain ever during the healing"
So the moral of the story...go to the doc if you get sick and your throat is swelling and WASH YOUR HANDS to stop passing teh germs. I never realized I wasnt getting enough air until this morning.. I was huffing and panting after walking up the stairs, but not today. Now its "strep roullette "over here with my wife, 5 year old and 3 year old. Hopefully none of them get it.....