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  • I am so embarassed.

    This is a self sighting.

    Saturday night, I woke up with a very swollen sore throat and by the time late Sunday night/early Monday morning rolled around, about all I could do was sit on the sofa in the fetal position crying. This thing was evidently some sort of horrible ear/throat infection.

    I swear, I have never been in so much pain for that that long, and it being just completely unrelenting, in my life, and that includes having a baby. No lie.

    So the husband brings me to the doc in the box Monday morning and I am just out of my mind. I have not slept the entirety of the night before and I'm in so much pain that I would have confessed to shooting both Lincoln and Kennedy, and then causing the Haitian earthquake if I had thought it would have made the pain stop. I was ready to talk.

    And here they come trying to do a throat culture and I swear I could NOT refrain from fighting the nurse. I could not control myself. I tried sitting on my hands. I tried grabbing the edges of the table to keep my hands still. No dice. It was all I could do to not hit the poor woman. That tongue depressor hit the back of my mouth and it was like being electrocuted. My jaws clamped shut and I kept biting down on the swab and the stick so hard she couldn't do anything. Not to mention I kept grabbing her wrists. I swear I didn't even know my damn hands were moving until it was done.

    Needless to say, they didn't get a culture. I even told them they could send someone in to hold me down, or whatever, I didn't care. They didn't want to do that. I just sat in the room and cried. I thought I was losing my mind.

    Now I am sure I'm the "psycho fighting woman" over there. But fuck! It's like I was possessed or something, I didn't even have control over my thoughts or my actions! I'm MORTIFIED.

    I feel considerably better now, but my ear is still not in great shape. I bend over and the pressure changes, and that gets my attention.

    Two new words I learned: Magic Mouthwash.

  • #2
    Aww. I don't think you were sucky at all-I imagine one look at the back of your throat, plus the fact that you must've been moaning, groaning, begging them to help you, meant that you were ill. =/
    Success is not final, failure is not fatal: It is the courage to continue that counts.-Winston Churchill

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    • #3
      Ah man, I know how that feels. I would do the same thing for even lesser problems. I hated having that popsickle stick in your mouth. I wouldn't even realize I was arm wrestling with the doctor to get that damn thing away from me. It's like our instincts override our thought process. And don't even get me started on going to the dentist...

      Get well soon.

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      • #4
        i'm sure nurses have dealt with much worse...people that don't want help.
        but i'm glad to hear you're doing better than you were...and i hope you get better still ^_^


        edit: just recalled that when i was little, i needed a throat culture...and ended up puking all over the nurse. so at least you didn't do that
        Last edited by Green_Fairy; 02-24-2010, 09:07 PM. Reason: heh oh yeah...
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        • #5
          I'm sure they understood. If I was a nurse and had seen you, I know I would. I always hated getting throat cultures. I've only had maybe 2 or 3 done in my whole life but I remember the last time I had one done, the doc had to talk to me for a bit to calm me down before she did it.

          Hope you feel better soon!

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          • #6
            Don't worry too much, nurses and doctors know that people in extreme pain don't react normal. Pain like that wears you down. I'm glad you're felling better again.

            I once managed to slap one of those nasty blow thingies out of my dentists hands, the anaesthetic was already wearing off... and BAAM that was a pure reflex, only after the thingy was flying across the room I realized what I had done. I had tears in the eyes from the pain. The dentist apologized and gave me some time to regain my composture. They had to re-sterilise the thingy anyway.
            As for other funny dentist stories... I once bit my childhood/teen dentist and each time he told me: "Don't bite me again!" Later he showed he my patient file, which had a note on it, in red: "Bites!"
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            • #7
              Quoth Green_Fairy View Post
              just recalled that when i was little, i needed a throat culture...and ended up puking all over the nurse. so at least you didn't do that
              It's been a looooooong while since I've had to have throat cultures, and I hope by all that is good and holy in the world that I never have to have one again. My gag reflex is so sensitive now I probably would barf all over the poor nurse.
              I am no longer of capable of the emotion you humans call “compassion”. Though I can feign it in exchange for an hourly wage. (Gravekeeper)

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              • #8
                I remember having to get something cauterized in my mouth. With the silver and all... At first I couldn't figure out WHY they had four guys in this tiny room with a wicked looking chair. My ankles got secured, my wrists got secured and these four guys held onto me as the oral surgeon put something between my teeth to keep my mouth open.

                Oh...

                My...

                God...


                OWWWWWWWWWW

                After it was over they unclamped me, called my Mom in and she held me as I cried and blubbered over the pain. After about an hour I was able to stand and get myself cleaned up. Saw one of the guys when I walked out and couldn't even face him.

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                • #9
                  If it happens again, this may or may not help, but it has cleared up the pain at least temporarily for me in similar situations. Mix a strong saltwater solution and gargle it in the back of your throat and swish it around in your mouth. If your sinuses are inflamed, snorting the saltwater may be unpleasant, but it can help clear that up too. For the ear, hydrogen peroxide down the ear canal can work wonders. It will foam out debris in the ear, and all that is required is to let it work a minute or so then rinse out the ear. It won't cure the infection, but it can often control the symptoms and pain long enough to get to a doctor.

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                  • #10
                    I threw up on a doctor once when I was a teenager. I had a sore throat and my dad took me in. When he went to get a culture and the swab hit the back of my throat..that was it. Poor doctor wasn't happy and I ended up crying. I don't do well when I'm sick, especially when I'm in pain.
                    Random conversation:
                    Me: Okay..so I think I get why Zoro wears a bandana
                    DDD: Cuz it's cool

                    So, by using the Doctor's reasoning, bow ties, fezzes and bandanas are cool.

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                    • #11
                      Quoth Aethian View Post
                      I remember having to get something cauterized in my mouth. With the silver and all... At first I couldn't figure out WHY they had four guys in this tiny room with a wicked looking chair. My ankles got secured, my wrists got secured and these four guys held onto me as the oral surgeon put something between my teeth to keep my mouth open.

                      Oh...

                      My...

                      God...


                      OWWWWWWWWWW

                      After it was over they unclamped me, called my Mom in and she held me as I cried and blubbered over the pain. After about an hour I was able to stand and get myself cleaned up. Saw one of the guys when I walked out and couldn't even face him.


                      Ooooh, ouch... I feel your pain. They did the same cauterization to me, but mine was in the back of my throat. I knew this was gonna suck when the doctor put on one of those plastic face shields, then took a pair of foceps with gauze on the end, soaked it in what I later found out was a derivative of cocaine (!) and jammed it against the wound. This was to deaden the pain. Then I got the silver nitrate treatment. All I can say is, if that's how it felt with the pain deadened... what the hell would it have felt like normally?

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                      • #12
                        Is the cauterization for burns or something else? I've never heard of any kind of treatment like that. It seems like it would almost be like torture.
                        Random conversation:
                        Me: Okay..so I think I get why Zoro wears a bandana
                        DDD: Cuz it's cool

                        So, by using the Doctor's reasoning, bow ties, fezzes and bandanas are cool.

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                        • #13
                          Quoth Aethian View Post
                          I remember having to get something cauterized in my mouth. With the silver and all... At first I couldn't figure out WHY they had four guys in this tiny room with a wicked looking chair. My ankles got secured, my wrists got secured and these four guys held onto me as the oral surgeon put something between my teeth to keep my mouth open.

                          Oh...

                          My...

                          God...


                          OWWWWWWWWWW

                          After it was over they unclamped me, called my Mom in and she held me as I cried and blubbered over the pain. After about an hour I was able to stand and get myself cleaned up. Saw one of the guys when I walked out and couldn't even face him.
                          Why, exactly, didn't they knock you out for something like that?!
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                          There is no breed of dog more in need of our compassion; in need of our call to arms on their behalf; and in need of what should be the full force of our enduring sanctuary.

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                          • #14
                            *shrugs* I don't know Kyree. Honestly after it happened I never thought to ask. But at least it's a war wound in tale since the scar has long since healed and I don't get random bloody mouthfulls.

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                            • #15
                              o YUCK!

                              I hope you feel better soon.

                              and no, i don't think you were sucky one bit! you were sick and you were actively trying to not react to the procedure.

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