Down With The Sickness

Hey, yeah so I haven't posted anything about my fun life. Mainly because I've been too busy sorta having fun. But only having half the fun because of the fact that I'm sick. Here, lemme tell you the story of it.

Okay, so the sickness I've had started out a couple weeks back when I decided to visit Soontar on his day of sickness. And I thought that because I was around Cindy and her sickness all the time, and now this, I was bound to get something. And I didn't think it would be too bad because they all had it for like, 2-3 days. I, on the other hand, have had it for longer than I wanted to. So anyways, saw Soontar that Friday, then attempted to stay up all night that next Saturday to play some WoW. I even had a NOS energy drink to keep me up! But, that didn't help. I went to bed earlier than I wanted to because I knew I had a cold coming on. And guess what? I WAS RIGHT!
And so, after a while of feeling groggy and whatnot, my eyes started to get poofy. Which usually lets my mom know that I'm NOT lying (which I used to always do as a kid... sometimes) about my sickness. So, I missed almost a whole week of school. Of course, showing up on the days I needed to. Like my 2 art exams and last tuesday I had an extremely large paper due in Political Science. I didn't go to school the 20th, or the 22nd. On saturday the 24th, I decided I needed to get out of the house. I was sick and tired of moping around because of missing a birthday party and not being able to bring a friend, and sick and tired of being sick and tired! So I went with Soontar to his parents house and had a spicy meal of chilli after walking the dog and drinking tea. We then went and saw a handsome Gerard Butler in a pretty good movie called Law Abiding Citizen. And here I go with some hot photos from the movie now.

Ha, all pictures from the same scene. Mmmmmmmmmm Gerard Butler stripped down in that movie. And OH, was it good.
So after the movie, Soontar and I headed back to his parents house where I learned to play labrynth and had some more delicious tea drenched in honey. MmmmM. Honey. Then went home and slept more.

Then yet again I didn't attend school the 26th, 28th, or 29th. Yet, on the 27th, going on the 3rd week of the sickness, I finally went to see a doctor. And whilst I was driving home from school going to my appointment, I decided to take a look at my throat to see what my tonsils were doing back there. I had realized that I hadn't had much tonsil action for a while. When as a kid, I had strep almost every month. Yet, I never met the deadline of the amount of times I had strep to be elible to get my tonsils taken out. But for a few years now, they seemed to be dying down. Besides the fact that I sometimes got "food" stuck in them because they are so big. I swear, one of them is the size of a golfball. Looks like a pink golfball. Its sick.

So yeah, I decided to take a look-see at them... While driving...

Uhm, bad plan. Not only were they disgustingly bigger than normal, but they were filled with white puss! :D Isn't that fantastic?! So, while looking at these things I nearly drove off the side of the road. Not fun. The entire way to the doctor I was so intrigued by the way my throat looked that I can't remember getting to the doctor. But I do remember what happened in there. HA.

My mom told me I probably had strep again, so she asked the doctor to take a strep test later on. They went through the normal doctorly things. Like weighing me, asking me to take deep breaths while they stick a cold thing to my skin, making me lie down so they can feel all my inards, checking my nose, my ears and then saving my mouth for last. The reaction was the best. I wasn't sure if I should be proud or very very embarrassed at the fact that my own doctor, a certified went through college got degrees and whatnot, real doctor... Took a short look at my throat and backed away saying, "Oh god". Oh, it was great. My mom giggled and then the doctor asked the nurse, "Have you seen this??" and the nurse replied with, "I don't need to, I saw them from over here." (She was on the other side of the room) Oh man, so good. So, they took the long q-tip for a strep test and swabbed the back of my throat. And yet again, the doctor was amazed at the fact that I have no gag reflex anymore. I mean, what can I say? Living for years with strep all the time, people always poking around in my throat, and then having me, always poking the back of my throat trying to get rid of disgusting stuff that might be caught in my tonsils, yeah. No wonder I have no gag reflex. I would be a horrible bulimic. It just wouldn't work.

So they took the test back to the testing room thing. And came back shortly saying, "It suprisingly came out negative. You have some other bug in there..." Yeah, great. Some bug growing in some part of my throat which I have no control over? Yeah, I'm pretty sure I hate the human body. So disgusting, so vile, ew. So they gave me some huge pills and referred me to a doctor in Lancaster to see if I am now FINALLY eligble to take my tonsils out! :D

So, I took those pills. First day I took the pill I woke up the next morning and threw up. Sorta. I didn't have anything in my stomach TO throw up, but my body was going through all the motions. Like the gagging, the saliva, the nausea.. All of it. So I stayed home again. And after 2 days of taking those pills alot, nothing happened. In fact, my throat just got a bit more itchier. Wanna see what they looked like Wenesday night? Here you go.

Yes, I know my teeth aren't really straight in the back. Oh well. Now, if you google "huge tonsils" you will find many other pictures that are much much much much MUCH worse than mine. They actually show all the disgusting stuff. But atleast my tonsils aren't as bad as google's. But you can see how big they are. The one on the left is usually only a itsy bit smaller than that. But still, thats pretty big. Then the one on the right you can usually NEVER see. But as you can see in the picture, you can quite clearly see it.

So, they weren't getting any better and I was still always dead and groggy. And yet again, I missed school on W and Th of this week. Sitting around doing nothing all day, I was about to blow my mind. So I went out to the cabin with Cindy and Soontar for a bit. Cindy left with her (probably drunk) dad after watching Rocky Horror Picture Show (so good), and then Soontar and I enjoyed a night in a hottub and rolling around in the bed. Meaning, when we slept, we both had some sort of sickness, so lots of rolling around to get comfortable enough to sleep. I wake up at 8 freaking 30 in the morning with a huge urge to drink lots of drink. I finished off my water and then dove into the coke. And once my thirst was quenched, I took a nice long hottub. Listening to the birds, the wind, and feeling the leaves fall on my face while the sun was barely in the sky, was amazing. And my eyes were finally UN POOFY. Ish. SO TODAY WOULD BE GOOD FOR SENIOR PICTURES! YAYY.

Too bad I ended up getting out of the cabin later than expected. So, I drove extremely fast home while unintentionally trying to itch my throat. When I finally pull up to the house, I look at my throat again. And yet again, my tonsils looked disgusting. Maybe even worse. So, at 12:20 I ran inside my house (having to meet at the photographers house at 12:30), stuck my head in the bathtub (unable to take a full out shower), grabbed a bunch of outfits, props, and other things to take pictures and yelled for my mom to make me another doctors appointment. :D While trying to run around I get super super tired. No running will work for me. I was out of breath and about to pass out by the time I got to my car. I grabbed some tea from my mothers car and raced to the house. Where I found out that we didn't have much time to take pictures because my mom had made an appointment for 3, but we would get as many done as we could. So, on our way to the cabin we talk about how I've been sick and where I want my pictures taken, and I do my makeup. We get there and she's instantly taking pictures of everywhere. I mean, who wouldn't? Its beautiful out there.
So, we get there and my mom shows up with my 2 favorite dogs. Kally and Gwen. Kally being the ugly one who is 2 years younger than me. And gwen being my beautiful, yet incredibly stupid, collie. Took many pictures with dogs, books, leaves, hat, sketch pad, and they all looked pretty well. We aren't done yet, gonna get more this week and have pretty extensions in and all that jazz! EXTENSIONS! YAYYY EXTENSIONS!!

Ehemm. Anyways, I'm getting slightly bored with this post. So, I will continue with my sickness story. So, after pictures I had to rush, but not rush (because cops are everywhere) to the doctors office. I show up and sit down next to the weird fish waiting on my mom to show. Those fish... They always, ALWAYS, stare at me.. At one point today, I had all of them in a line looking at me. And I scooted away from the tank and the lady across the room giggled at me. Mama shows up. Have a talk with the infected lady across the room about why I should keep my windows up and doors locked when I'm in an unsafe area... And then headed back to the room where I get all that doctorly stuff done. Yet again, they weighed me. AND I LOST ONE POUND!!!! :D But, if I would have taken off the shoes, it would have been 2 pounds.. And the pants, and the shirt, etc etc etc.
I went through all the procedures as I did 3 days ago. Temperature, doctor poking around at my inards, squishing around my liver to see if it was still tender or something. Then, the nurse lady came in with a finger pricking device. D:
And so then I went into my acting skills of being like buddy the elf. Eating the cottonballs, sitting on the cold seat, etc. Did all that fun stuff and got some laughs.
Ha. So yeah, she was slurping up my blood with a slurping device whilst squeezing my finger. Although, I didn't bleed as much as she wanted me too. So she had to wipe off my finger and then squeeze some more! And yet, I was still not bleeding enough. I guess I'm a bruiser, not a bleeder. Or a lover, not a fighter? She gave me an awesome Scooby Doo band aid and left the room to see if I had mono.

So, she left and the doctor was talking to me about steriods to help with my tonsils. My hand instantly went to my upper lip and my eyes got all big as I said, "I don't want a mustache."
The doctor laughed, and said "Not steriods like Arnold Swarzenbigmuscles." And I giggled and said, but I love him.
"Your clothes... Give them to me."

Yes. He is da man.

And not 2 minutes after the nurse left, she was back. "I'm not even going to fully go through the testing. The mono test isn't even fully done fading and I know its already positive. Your's was one of the fastest positive tests that I've ever seen in my ?? years of working."
YES, I HAD BROKEN A NEW RECORD WITH MY ILLNESS!!!! WOO!
So, they had to yet again take more blood from my arm this time. And I thought it was going to hurt. She told me to be ready and clench my fist. So I had to look away as the needle went in. But all I felt was a tiny pinch, like some inchworm was attempting to bite me or something. And then I watched as my blood came out of my vein into this small tube. OH SO MESMERIZING.....
Telling me that its going to go somewhere and find out some kind of cure er something. I don't know. But we all know that the blood is just going to be shipped off to some vampires... ZOMG VAMPIRES.

So I left the doctors office with 2 new holes in my body and the knowledge that I now have mono. And the fact that soon they will know that exactly is growing in my tonsils. Because they had taken another q-tip and shoved it, yet again, into the back of my throat to get some of that nasty stuff off of my tonsils. So that they may send it to a lab somewhere, where they will look at it under a microscope, and analyze what it is. THEN, they will GROW it so that they may find a cure for it. THEN, they can send it to me and I can get all better. Until then, I'm taking these non-masculine steriods 4 times a day. GREAT ISN'T IT?

My throat is still itchy. I probably gave the Mono to the Soontar. I'm not allowed to work tomorrow. So no money for me. And I'm not allowed to take my little brother to the movies because I missed his birthday last week. So we have to plan again. So, goodbye to a life of fun, and hello to a life of VIDEO GAMES! :D YAYYYY!