My Strange Little World

Oh man, what a day. For once, work wasn't the root of the problems (at least I don't think it was). I've just spent 6 hours in the emergency room for what I thought was just strep throat. Turns out that I've got either extremely aggressive tonsillitis or even possibly mono. Oh lovely. I spent about 4 hours of that time with an IV in my right arm, pumping antibiotics, steroids, and saline into my bloodstream. They had a specialist come in because I apparently had a golf ball sized pouch of pus in the back of my throat. The specialist was a bit worried because he though it might have been an abcess, which would be a possible sign of worse things to come. If it had been an abcess, they were going to drain the pus out of it. The doctor was even getting the morphine ready. Luckily, it's not an abcess, but is still worrisome. They're testing the blood they drew from my left arm and should have the results in about an hour. But the problem is that even if the tests tonight come back negative for mono, I could still have it because it is an extremely elusive disease. The upside of the whole thing is that I'm not allowed back to work until the doctor says so. At this point, that's at least a week. Anyway, I have to rest now because the doctor said so.