If you saw what I'm dealing with, you'd view my complaints as justified

Wanna see it? My tonsil stone? It's REALLY gross...






But aren't you just a little bit curious?





Isn't this like a car accident?





You're repulsed, but you can't look away?




I'm really not sure why I'm about to post this picture. Maybe to justify all the complaining I've done/am doing/will continue to do.




Yeah, that's why.

Honestly, though. MY THROAT HURTS SO BAD. Imagine having strep throat, right after swallowing a broken piece of a corn chip that scraped your throat, and then getting a popcorn kernel stuck right where the corn chip scraped. Add a visibly swollen lymph node in the right side of your neck, an earache in your right ear, and horrid, rancid, awful bad breath.


That's what I've got going on. Until I get to an Ear/Nose/Throat doctor as soon as possible this week. To have my tonsil stone removed. Most people who suffer from tonsil stones remove them on their own, using a water pik, gargling, a q-tip, or just time. But I've NEVER noticed them if I've ever had them before, and so this one just...snuck up on me. And my gag reflex is far too strong to apply any of the above methods. Believe me, I've tried. Not to mention, this one is "embedded."


****Alert: If you are queasy, do not scroll down. If you're curious and/or think it probably actually looks pretty cool (like I do, except for the fact that it hurts me), scroll down. It was terrifying when I first took a flashlight to my throat; I thought I had a rogue tooth growing out of my tonsil. But no, it was just a cluster of calcareous matter in my tonsilar crypt. If you wanna see what a "giant embedded tonsilolith" looks like, scroll down.****

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That thing that looks like a tooth coming out of the roof of my mouth, on the right? My tonsilolith. Maybe I should name it.