Why Doctors should never be surgons....
I just went through the most painful thing in my life due to a misdiagnosis from my new doctor.
First of all forgive me on my writing as I'm on a narcotic called Roxicet for pain.
Combined with the fact that I am not a great or even good writer. And I am Dyslectic but I will really try to make this as readable as I can.
It all started on 3/11/04 Thursday night with a slight pain in the left side of my throat by morning it had gotten so bad that I had severe pain and swelling from my ear all the way down my neck. I thought it was my tonsils, grabbed the flashlight and a mirror and looked, sure enough the one on the left is huge, so large in fact that it was pushing the uvula off to the side.
Ok so to the doctor I go, and tell her that I thought it was my tonsils, well she looked in my throat, looked in my ears and took a culture from my throat and give me Tylenol with codeine that at first helped. Said something about a fast test and that she would call me with the results that afternoon she also said she would have someone call regardless of what the test proved. So I wait. And wait all through the rest of Friday with no call.
Saturday the Tylenol was no longer working so I called the office and they were closed I got the answering service. They had the attending doctor call me. He couldn't do anything because he was not in the office but gave me the number to call and see if the test results have came in, I call it and guess what they were closed.
Lucky me!!! Ok so I decide to stick it out till Monday and go back to my doctor.
Sunday morning I wake up in excruciating pain with mass swelling. The hubby had promised a friend weeks before to help him with a project, I was going to go with my camera to get some pictures for them, but I had to bow out I was in to much pain so I stayed home. A few hours later and more swelling I started to get really scared that my throat was going to swell shut. I called my hubby's cell he was almost done but was at least and hour away so I called my friend to come and sit with me till he got home.
When she got to my house and saw what I looked like she told me "you have got to go to the emergency room NOW. Hubby gets home and we all pile into the car and off the hospital we go, me with the most head-exploding headache I have ever had in my life. And proceed to wait 4 more hours no pain meds no nothing.
The nurse practitioner sees me looks in my mouth and says "oh my god I know what is wrong with you"!! Paratonsillar abscess in layman terms the whole back of my throat and the soft palette had abscessed due to acute follicular tonsillitis.
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