Sunday, May 20, 2007

Of Doctors and things...

I have been remiss in my duty of informing you all of what's going on here in our little kingdom. You all have my apologies for that. The truth is that there's nothing much to tell other than I've gotten our garden very nearly complete and my sore throat is interesting in it's ability to avoid diagnosis. :)

The garden was finally tilled thanks to a nice neighbor that allowed us to borrow their tiller. I have planted our strawberries, pumpkins, tomatoes, bell peppers, corn, peas, onions, and carrots. I'll be planting the cucumbers and zucchini after work tomorrow. :) After tomorrow, it's just a matter of keeping the garden weeded and watered. We'll have some veggies in just under 2 months.

As for the sore throat, I noticed a very mild case of sore throat when I woke up in the mornings early last week. It was so insignificant, that upon getting out of bed I completely forgot about it. On Thursday about mid-morning, it suddenly became a jagged knife stabbing me in the front of my throat whenever I swallowed anything. It was so bad that I decided to go to the doctor so I could get it diagnosed. It hurt so much that I didn't eat lunch and instead went to the doc in the middle of the afternoon. If you know anything about me, then you know that I rarely go to the doctor, and that it had to be pretty painful to send me running to a doctor. Do you know what the doctor said? Of course, you don't - you weren't there! :) But I've already given you enough information already in this post that you'll guess the message if not the exact delivery. They can't find anything wrong and all the tests they ran came back negative. She told me to take OTC meds for the pain and sent me on my way.

I've been dealing with the stabbing pains since then and they have actually eased a bit since then. Hopefully, it really is nothing, though I'd like to see them find something so there's an explanation for it at least. I know the vampires certainly took enough blood to study - or maybe it was to make mixed drinks. Sheesh!

Anyway, that's all for this post. I'll do better with posting. :)

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Queen Karana said...

Yep. You are never sick. I thought for sure they would say that it's strep. Maybe they still will... you'll probably get a call tomorrow. If you do (and it's strep), ask them about the kidlets... if we need worry or anything. :)

dubby said...

I am amazed! I would certainly think it was strep because of the kids. Sounds like you accidentally swallowed a pine cone and it got stuck in there. Hope you get better soon.

King Isepik said...

Thanks for the sentiment!

It feels like that pine cone is in there sideways and is made of shattered glass shards. I'll live I suppose. :)

Obliviocelot said...

That's why I hate doctors... They don't know anything--they just exist to take your money.

Feel better!

OhTheJoys said...

I'm kinda jealous of the garden. I'm all fingers out there in the yard.