I had a bad fever over the weekend and a lingering sore throat convinced catherine to get me a doktor’s appt. They called this morning to say the doktor was sick and I’d need to goto urgent care if I wanted someone today. So here I am, using the blackberry’s web client to post to 360.
I almost got run over in the parking lot. In some ways, what do you expect, walking behind the handicap spots at urgent care. I also thought of all places to get run over, this wouldn’t be so bad.
Sore throats normally don’t send me to the doktor, but cause Sal is around, I gave in. This version is particularly painful too. So much that it got into my dream last night. It was figured out that someone had put a poisoned gun against my throat and that my esophagus (no other web window to look up spelling in…) was being digested every time I swallowed. There was a neat little animation done (in the style of medicine commercials) to explain what would happen – how my food tube would disconnect with my throat and just fall ontop of my stomach and then when I ate, food would just fall into my body in random locations. Could be fatal.
My throat only really hurts when I swallow. Its been helping me to lose weight. Anyway, back in the dream, I had 3 police detectives working with me to figure out who put the gun on me. One, I thought was cool, cause he was wearing sunglasses. Turns out he was blind. We’re about to kick in a door in some building to catch people, when I must have swallowed cause the pain woke me up.
To get my mind of the pain, I started to think about how useless this blind cop was going to be when we kicked in the door. So in this strange, dream editing state, I floated him out of the building and wanted to put him someplace more fitting. First place he ended up? Point guard for the Wizards.
I felt like Bart – my imagination failed me.
I eventually got to sleep and got another dream diagnosis – it was the head of a tape worm working its way out of me, again attacking my food tube.
This doktor says its probably just strep throat. Will find out in 10 minutes.
totally sounds like strep, which isn’t something you can just ignore, you know. “just strep” indeed.
Good thing you went to the doctor — my last sore throat that I ignored turned out to be a peritonsillar abscess. Seriously gross.
man – you guys are worse than my dreams.
strep test came back negative. i was “prescribed” Advil. And gargling with salt water.
Huh. Sounds worse than just a sore throat.