Deep Throat

So. I've been having this throat thing happening. When the boys were younger and the squirmy masses would be on my lap or held, I would inevitably get whacked in the face or neck with somebody's massive head. ouch. I swear officer! It wasn't my husband who gave me the fat lip - it was my kid!

And I'd wake up with a sore neck - as if I'd been grabbed or whacked in the throat and it would be a little sore to swallow. This happened regularly. Only lately? I realize that my little squirming babies are not whacking me in the face and neck anymore with their heads. And I'm still sometimes waking up with a sore neck/throat. (neck on the outside, throat on the inside.)

Yes. I've gone to a doctor. now two. Both assure me that if I had some sort of cancer, I would surely have had a flurry of other symptoms since I've had this happening for the last 3 + years. And my neck has certainly been well checked for any sort of growth or lumps (gasp. cough. gasp.) My ears/nose/throat gentleman decided to scope down my throat for a better look. So I open wide, but no! He's getting out the long scope; which really looks like a long, flexible knitting needle with a tiny flashlight on one end and a giant head-strapping eye piece on the other end, to go through my nose! The very nostril peering at you from my masthead. (I've had two babies, I can handle this... I've had two babies, I can handle this...)

So after a gentle spray of numbing agent in my nose, down goes the scope. Where can one avert their eyes for this procedure? Since I am an avert-your-eyes sort of patient, I was planning my visual escape route with little success. Closing the eyes is the only option really. And that makes me dizzy.

So strange to cough when something is so clearly in your nose...

and so strange when the numbing agent starts to wear off... not quite like the dentist. for awhile there, it felt like my two front teeth weren't there at all.

It appears that the very very back of my tongue looks enlarged. Why? Shoulder shrugs. Maybe an infection?, so we'll start there with a round of antibiotics and some steriods. The warning labels on both prove that the next 2 weeks will be bitter-pill indeed. Oh! And an added bonus on the steroid is "edginess." Both my doctor and the gentle pharmacist mentioned it. So. When I'm posting at midnight over the next two weeks, you'll know why!