Kristi Thacker

Kristi Thacker
Thyroid Cancer Sucks

Wednesday, June 29, 2011

Finally went to Dr....for swelling by ear and under jaw...

After this last weekend where I looked like I had the mumps, Shelby convinced me that a Dr appt. was necessary to find out what was causing the swelling on the left side of my face.  So I drove up to Columbia today and the Dr. was very interested to find that I had an infection of the parotid gland (a saliva gland) which I guess is fairly rare.  Rare enough that all together I had 4 different people checking out the greenish saliva coming from the "sick" gland.  Nurse Practitioner, Dr Zitch, and 2 students.  All with their fingers in my mouth just checking it out.  Ordered some strong antibiotics which he feels should clear it all up.  I made the very best of the day by having a some friends ride along with me so we could do lunch (hurts to chew so I had soup and breadsticks at Olive Garden, yum!) and we shopped till we dropped. 

Shelby had a very big day with a semi-truck delivery and a crane to unload it in our back yard this morning.

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