Sickies!

So that is pretty much what has been going on. Some really strange thing has been happening to my neck, throat...gland area. In the last 6 months it has happened 3 times.
This past June was one of the worst..this is really going to be gross, so read at your own risk :) Hey I warned you !!....

It hits me all the sudden, my body will start hurting, aching, like I am getting the flu. That will last a few days, I mean it REALLY hurts. Then about 2 days after that, BAM..my throat and tonsils start swelling. ( here is the gross part..) they get white patches on the tonsils. It is really really not a nice thing. The pain is unbearable. Then one or two days after that, the glands in my neck start swelling, and I run a fever. It is indeed..terrible. In June I went to the dr, everything came back fine. No strep, no mono, no bacteria grew at all. She gave me an antibiotic instead, and said...if it is indeed something bacterial, the antibiotic will work very fast. And that it did. Within a day or so I was starting to feel better.

So this brings me to a week ago, I was complaining to Zach how my body just hurt. It was killing me. I wasn't really thinking anything of, we brushed it off as just getting sore from being more active. At night my upper back just killed me. Wouldn't you know it, 2 days later I am sitting here at my computer, back and body aching ..and I swallow and it hurt like heck. I knew in an instant. I ran to the bathroom, grabbed a flashlight, shined it down my throat, and yup. Two swollen, white patched covered tonsils. NO!
I decided to try to head it off early, went to the ER and they just brushed it off. They ran a step test and that was it. Told me to go home, rest and come back if it got worse.
And worse it did get. Over night, my fever ran high, I was shaking with chills, I could no longer open my mouth, my neck was so swollen I could not move it. SOOO, they said come back if it got worse....4 in the morning, I said to heck with it, i could no longer deal with the pain, and off I went back to the ER.

They were NOT happy to see me, and some of those nurses at Uniontown Hospital have the WORST bedside manner. Terrible. Horrible, awful, mean people. If you dont like your job THAT much, please just stay home in bed. Ok enough of that ranting.

After nearly 3 hours of sitting there, I started to not be able to breathe good. I felt my neck getting bigger, I could not swallow anymore. I was gagging and gasping. UGH. And in walked the dr lady that seen me yesterday. She remembered me, and she said " oh honey, you are way worse!" no crap. But your little mean nurse lady out there was acting like I was a criminal for coming to the ER for a sore throat..just not a soar throat, this is 10 x worse.
She saw how i was having trouble breathing, felt my neck and could not believe how swollen it had gotten not even 24 hours later. She ordered a steroids, vicodin and said we would try an antibiotic. Oh thank you lord.

Until...the young nurse dude walks in. One I had not met with yet, and told me had to give me a shot of steroids. Okk...I can be brave I can do this. Then he said the words " I have to give it to you in your butt" ...his face turned red, mine turned red, and I said " uhhhhhhhm are you kidding me ?? " ( i can barely talk at all at this point..) " no not kidding you, haha...its ok" " no its not, I think i would rather just go home " Nurse dude with more nervous laughing " oh no, your neck is too swollen and you can't breathe, and trust me you will feel A Loooooot better after this" Me not able to even look at him anymore so staring at the ground "NO" Nurse dude "yes, now pick a cheek..i will let you pick it..now just stick it out" next thing I know im getting a shot in my butt cheek. And well darn it, it hurt!

But..it has helped, while my glands are still out there, i can move my neck, open my mouth, and swallow.

I really don't know what is going on with me, and trust me I have thought the worst. I will have to go see an ENT or something. I just really hope the antibiotic kicks in and heals whatever it is....again.