Ladies and Gentlemen,
I have tonsillitis. When I swallow, it feels like I have about 10 million knives stabbing me in the throat at one time. Yes, I'm a bit dramatic but it really hurts. Yesterday I woke up with a horrible sore throat. I made it our of bed for church and that's about all the strength and energy I could muster. I couldn't sleep at all last night. I kept waking up everytime I had to swallow. So I've been up since 3am. Somehow I made it through work. Afterwards, a couple of my friends who are Korean took me to the doctor for translation purposes. Let me say, they do things a bit differently here. First of all, there was no throat swabbing. He took one look and said I had tonsillitis. Who knows if it's strep throat which is bacterial or just a virus. He then took some weird instruments I'd never seen before and sucked the snot right out of my nasal cavity. That felt weird. I also got a shot in the butt. That was unexpected and now my bootie is sore. And I have lots of pills to take the next two days. I already took six after dinner. I have no idea what any of them are but if they make me feel better, I don't really care. I just want to be able to swallow and sleep. So guess how much this all cost me. With my insurance everything was less than 7,000 won which is equivelant to about $7 in the states. Isn't that amazing? I saw an ear, nose, and throat specialist, walked in without an appointment, waited 10 minutes, got my prescriptions filled, and was out of there. Let's just hope it helps. I'm so tired of being sick. Last week was the first week I felt better like I was getting over my cold and now this. Aargh! But I'll survive. At least I'm not dying of cancer or something.
