Worst Night Leads to Best Day

After taking my antibiotics last night my uvula got really swollen all night i tried gargling etc to make it go down and nothing was working. By the time it reached twelve hours of being swollen I had tried every homeopathic remedy and taken a Benadryl worrying it was a reaction to my drugs. My parents initially felt I was overreacting that took a look and realised that it was affecting my breathing etc and called surgeon and doctor than took me to the ER. I don't know where all of Calgary was on a Monday morning but I was really happy that they were not on the road or in the ER and I was seen pretty quickly. I panicked a little bit when they put me in a special isolation chamber which had a contamination shower and then they made me wear a gown. I was very worried at this point, turns out I'm just stupid and they put me in there to prevent me from being exposed to infections...dur. The doctor was a bit of a jerk but he told me I was fine and not to worry but I needed to drink lots of cold things and eat freezies and popsicles etc (something the mother had been lecturing me to stop doing). I was quite happy to hear the news and went home...still swollen...and got a big slurpee. Between slurpee and honey (amazing by the way) my uvula went down and within an hour or so I was feeling 100% and ate and tonight I ate the same dinner as my parents with the exception of the meat (but thats cause I'm vegetarian anyways)and desert. I have been popping frozen blueberries all day and am feeling amazing. So day 6 went from the worst to the best day with honey and a slurpee...feeling pretty good.

Scabs are disgusting

So after a few days your supposed to get little greyish patches where the tonsils were. Mine started forming day two and I was like they aren't that bad but they are terrible like so nasty. Basically the two hOles slowly begin to fill up with chinks of scar tissue that makes everything harder from talking to eating and drinking having a wicked cough doesn't help either. Basically they are supposed to eventually just slough off which sounds nasty and I'm sure will be nasty but feeling like you have engorged tonsils a sore troat difficulty swallowing due to chunks and the nastiest taste ever makes me want to pick them off myself. Unfortunately you can't just poke at them as it is burnt into the tonsil beds so here I Am with giant white chinks filling an empty space in my mouth that I can't get rid of by choice. It's so gross and if ibpixk at them they will bleed which will lead to yayore scars so so so gross

I'm getting really bored of animal shapes in lukewarm sauce

The first thing I did when I came home was gargle salt water and that felt so good uvula no longer sat on the tongue and got some of the gross bits of scabs out. I have gargles a ton and it has felt so much better next to pills and cold juice boxes is amazing. Three hours or so after coming home from the hospital I got a very special and very welcome visitor when Mitch came by to watch movies and take care of Me. I think he was shocked by the fact I had been determined to eat and didn't want something easy like jello bur no I insisted on zoodles which really I shouldn't even be eating today. However zoodles went down fine and used the food to take my antibiotics and perkocets. While watching glee I fell asleep on Mitch waking up during district nine I then set up my bed and settled down to watch valentines day which I think I sleep through poor Mitch watching that on his own lol. Before leaving he drugged me up supervised gargling and gave me some super hugs Which I fully appreciated. Last night I slept in two hour intervals and made sure to drink while I was awake. Big side effect of drinking colorful drinks like purple and blue powerades is the colour it turns your white patches that form in the tonsil beds. I took some pictures to monitor myself. I have eaten lots of zoodles today and my pain has been less than about a six so my pain pills have been lowered which is lovely. Frozen peas on my neck are helping with the swelling af swallowing and the salt water gargling has been a life saver enabling me to swallow for the most part and eat lukewarm zoodles. I am hoping for some more surprise visitors today to watch silky movies and just keep myind off the pain. Overall first twentyfour hours not too shabby and healing well over a day on advance.

Surgery

Ok so I arrived at the hospital at five forty AM! Admitting didnt even open till six then line up get asked my birthdate for the first of a Zillion times then into my bed number 18 in day surgery. Parents stayed while the nurse went over the questions and explained how long I'd be there for and what I would be expected to do before being discharged. Pretty sraightforward now for the forty minute wait did some reading followed by about three pee breaks to ensure you'll get through surgery... nerves didn't help. Once I was wheeled to the OR I was really nervous especially when a new anesthetist was there and he wasn't aware of my MPH. The OR nurses asked me yet again birthdate and confirm surgery. Four tries to get my IV in followed by the scariest feeling in the world being put to sleep I tried to fight it but it didn't work. I woke up at about nine in recovery and I was in tears it hurt but I was just scared and being without glasses made everything scarier and I remember fighting my surgeon over the tongue depressors and had to be held down so he could check my throat I was healing just fine. Then back to day surgery and I had to pee so bad the nurse was sketch about letting me go alone but since I seemed ok just a little loopy she let me then to bed to sit with ice on my neck and a humidifier mask on. They gave me perkocets since I was in alot of pain. Then I got cups of ice water and gjngerale and was checked all the time. Since I was doing so well they gave me a Popsicle and talked about calling my parents early. Went on another bathroom adventure still blind and threw up Popsicle...first time in over ten years. When I came back they pumped me full of gravel and antiinflammatories and called parents. I was finally discharged at three about an hour later than expected given perkocets T3s and antibiotics and strict homecare instructions however all were impressed by my lack of bleeding and overall wellness. Now for home!

SO like 12 hours OMG OMG OMG

Ok so I called the hospital today, the minor cold not a problem. I am the first patient booked due to the malignant hyperthermia so that means my surgery is going to be at 7:40AM which means I need to be at the hospital by 6:00AM!!! I can drink water up to four hours prior to surgery so like 3AMish and I have to be up early enough to shower. Visiting hours don't open up till 11AM so I am hoping someone comes to see me in my drugged up messed up bleeding state (wow I sound attractive here). I think I should have a rule about people coming to see me though...when I'm home...must bring slurpees because that would be ballin' like mega balling! I am glad I had a good day today and stocked up at the library on books etc for the next little while and I am really hoping that I will get something done school wise but who am I kidding that won't happen. The fear is definitely in full swing but I'm taking it in stride it will be better in the long run and hey at least they didn't postpone it and make me super anxious or something like that.

So its 48 hours or so pre-op

So at twenty one I'm getting my tonsils out on Tuesday morning...OMG scared to death. Not only is this my first surgery but I am also allergic to anesthetic which as you can imagine complicates life a little bit...a lot. I will be happy to have them gone which is great but at the same time am dreading the horror recovery stories I have read about. Today I did some shopping and stocked up on:
Powerade (x3)
KD (x3)
Zoodles (x2)
Lipton Tomato Vegetable Soup Mix (x1)
Halls (x2)
Freezies (x2)
Salt (big box)
Cosmo...I need some reading material

I am a little worried though since it seems I have caught a slight cold and I'm like dear god please take them out anyway I have finally psyched myself up for this I won't take a no now...not to mention booking 12 days off at one job and 9 at the other will suck to beg for hours...then in future take off again!