The Unknown

Ok so Sunday September 17 I woke up with a terrible swollen throat. Swollen but not sore at all. I went to the doctor that Wednesday because my throat was so swollen that I could hardly breathe. They gave me antibiotics cause they didn't know what it was but figured that the antibiotics would help. 

Skip forward to yesterday. (Thursday) I go in again after finishing all my pills and my throat is still really swollen. They decide that they are going to do a troat swab and culture. That means they are going to take a long q-tip, swab the back of my throat and then take it to a lab to see what grows. They also decided that they needed to take some blood to test me for Mono and to see if it is an airborn diease. Of course the nurse who does so can't ever seem to do it and butchers my arm up in the process. The doctor is then called in to take the blood herself from my other arm and does so with great ease and little pain. The real sad thing about this is that it is the same nurse and the same doctor who took my blood last time I had a swollen throat. Next time lets just let the doctor do it so I don't have to go through the double sore arm part. *sigh*

Skip forward to today. (Friday) I go in to find out the results of my blood test. I go in and am basically told that my blood rocks and that there is nothing visibly wrong with it. At all. So now I have to go back in on Monday to find out what has grown from the swab of the back of my throat.

I guess what bothers me the most is everyone of the nurses and doctors that have seen my throat say that it looks terrible but they have no clue what it is. The sad thing is I don't even really feel that sick. I just want to know why I can barely breathe or swallow and why my throat looks so terrible. Oh and this is also the second time I've gone in with a swollen throat and they didn't know what it was. It went away last time by itself so lets hope it does so again.