Feeling Better. Maybe.

Eating has become a stressful thing nowadays, owing to the amount of pain involved.

It started out a week ago as a throat infection of some kind, where my ear canals and throat were on fire and I was forced to consume massive quantities of cough drops and cough syrups and analgesics just to make it through the day, with my throat throbbing and my head pounding; and then there were the antacids I was dropping like candy in a vain attempt to soothe the fire-on-top-of-fire which was my esophagus. I'm thinking they had something to do with it as well.

On Wednesday night, there was this weird lump in my throat as though something was stuck in it and I just couldn't swallow it. I figured it might be something I was allergic to, so I took some antihistamines and went to bed.

On Thursday morning, the lump was not quite as large but there was a burning down deep so I took some of the omaprezole which is supposed to relieve the acid reflux which has been the bane of my existence for over a decade. But instead of relieving the pain, it created even more by apparently burning the top of my tongue to the point that it felt like razor blades were slicing it into pieces. And it looked really gross in the mirror, like someone had poured acid on it. Like it was melting. With big lumps in the back.

I wish I'd gotten a picture of it. But it would've given me nightmares. Naturally, I called Dr Google who told me it was probably an allergic reaction to something. But what? Cough drops? Cough meds? Citric acid? Not sure. But whatever it was, it made the act of eating a very painful thing.

Everything tastes like -- and feels like -- razor blades.

That night we went to see Shadowlands at a local theater. The acting was adequate for local theater. The principals playing C. S. Lewis and Joy Gresham  did quite well and had obviously done quite a bit of performing in amateur productions. It also helped that they were married, I suppose.

On Friday, I still wasn't feeling quite up to par so I begged off our scheduled D&D adventure and tried to figure out some way to eat without screaming. What is something that doesn't have any acide in it? How do you soothe a burned tongue? I was thinking maybe something dairy-related, so tried yogurt and granola, but that was just about the limit.

Tonight wasn't too bad -- the razor blades are still there, just a tad bit more bearable. We had a nice simple fish-and-chips dinner with apple slices, and then had tea and scones at our weekly Torah study.

I'm hoping tomorrow is back to normal.