My Body the Hell it Puts Me Through and Some Positive Messages.(post from Aug 29)

So I have been chronically ill my whole life. I get infections easily, I have chronic inflammation, respiratory issues, etc… The last 4 months my ears, nose and throat have been trying to kill me with infection. I have had rhinosinusitis, which is the medical term for my sinus being inflamed and infected all summer long, it’s in my ears and now in my tonsils that, should have been removed when I was 7.

A couple months ago after getting a tooth removed was when things got complicated, because I have massively long roots, and this being my front tooth, it left a hole in my infected sinus! The infection caused dry socket. For those of you that don’t know, dry socket is when the gums don’t heal fast enough leaving a hole and the bone exposed, and because of my rhinosinusitis and the new hole in my sinus leading into my jaw bone, it all got infected badly.

During this my sinuses are trying to kill me with post nasal drip into my lungs and giving me bacterial bronchitis. NOW TO MAKE MATTERS WORSE! I am becoming antibiotic resistant! The first round of antibiotic didn’t help making everything go from bad to terrible. The doctors were afraid of bacterial pneumonia, but thankfully the new antibiotics they put me on worked!

This brings me to the present a few months later. No more dental stuff, but the ENT stuff is still going on. I have a chronic middle ear infection that is resistant and the doctors, of course, gave me the antibiotic I am resistant to so now my tonsils are acting up. I have a tonsil abscess. Not a peritonsillar abscess that the ER doctors can easily drain, no an anterior tonsil pillar abscess that just bleeds when they attempt. The ER hooked me up with the antibiotic I am not resistant to so far and an ENT surgeon because ENOUGH IS ENOUGH!

Now here is the thing. Going through all this, there are lessons to be learned. Yesterday, while spending 9 hours in the ER I learned that if you fight hard enough, and do not give up, you will find someone that finally cares enough, understands enough, and wants to do enough to help you get better. It’s no fun sitting in an ER hungry and thirsty alone for 9 hours. But are you really alone? NO! You can talk to people and the right people will talk back with you, and you just might learn some things from them and visa versa. Life is a never-ending learning experience that you can either close you eyes and be ignorant too, or open them accept. Life can be full of funny little surprises that you can easily miss when you walk around being arrogant to the world and the people around you. Pain can make you feel like you want to shut the world and the people it out, but doing the opposite is what will ease your pain. Being open, accepting, and kind to yourself and others is everything when dealing with life’s bullshit.

I will close this with saying. I hope you and yours have good health, and a wonderful day and thanks for sharing a bit of it with me.