recovering

i have almost zero energy

i have been sleeping or napping a lot

i drink enough tea to float a small ship

i crunch buttered toast

soup gets slurped

i thank you all for your well wishes

monday 

my throat began to ache

that it seems

 is how 

my body

 signals 

a cold is coming

well this time it tricked me

no cold ever 'happened'

what happened was low grade fever

you know 

that ache behind your eyes

that nagging headache

that feeling of blah

so i decided

 on

 tuesday

 to call the ent guy i had seen a year or so ago

 vs

 my pcp

my pcp is nice guy a good doctor

but 

this serial sore throat 

3 times in 3 months

felt like it needed more

the soonest i could see anyone was thursday

thursday

really

i called my periodontist who knows many other doctors

he referred me to someone

whose office said the earliest appointment

was the end of june

i told them i sincerely hoped this would be gone before then

thursday it was

the diagnosis

acute aedenoiditis

or

severe pharyngitis

(apparently the same thing)

i got a camera stuck up my nose

the photos of the bacteria were disgusting

the treatment isn't much better

for 10 days

twice a day neti pot

twice a day gross tasting gargle

4 times a day antibiotic

lots of rest

etc

i also spoke to my pcp who said

i dont know what it was this winter but there's a lot of that going around