Catch-up Post: So Long Tonsils!

 Did you notice that I posted a million things? Somehow almost a month went by with me blogging, and then I had so much to say that I put it off. Well, I'm finally back on the blogging bandwagon. The biggest deterrent from blogging this last month was getting my tonsils taken out. It was really lame. I don't ever want to do it again. Fortunately, I won't ever have to do it again, right?

 The reason I had to get my tonsils out was because I had a giant tonsil stone on the left side of my throat. The ENT said he'd never seen anything like it before. What can I say? I'm one of a kind. I was really nervous when I went in for the surgery, but I had the nicest nurse and he really helped me calm down. Right before I went into surgery, the anesthesiologist gave me a shot of something to help me 'relax', but it made me so relaxed that I don't really remember anything between the shot and waking up in the recovery room. For some reason when I woke up I wouldn't stop talking. It was one long stream of comments including, "What time is it? You're really nice. My mouth tastes like broccoli. What time is it? How did I do? You're really nice. What time is it? I can't breath through my nose. My nose feels funny. Is it ok I can't breath through my nose? You're really nice." 

Soon after I got moved to 'stage 2 recovery' where Christian was waiting for me. The long string of comments continued, but I mostly focused on "I can't breath through my nose." This is how awesome I looked after surgery.

 They said it would take two weeks to recover, and it really did take two solids weeks to recover. I kind of feel like I had amnesia for those two weeks because I was not really aware of anything that was going on during that time. This is what my throat looked like on day 8:

 And this is what it looked like on day 11:

 

Thank goodness my mom came to watch the kids for those two weeks!!!! I don't know what I would have done without her!! She took really good care of me and the kids.

 

  The kids were so sad to see her go I started to think they might prefer her to me, but we did finally get in a routine again.  

I think I'm finally on the mend. It no longer feels like I swallowed a cactus. It's still tender and it hurts when I laugh really hard, but I'm fine with that because it is so much better than it was!  My advice to you: Don't get your tonsils taken out.