Umm...nasty.

My absence from school today was due to doctor's orders, because I've gotten Tonsillitis. Appearantly this is caused by strep throat bacteria which is why I can't swallow anything right now, and I got put on penicillin. Appearantly this is not contageous, unless I was misdiagnosed for another similar infection (but I wasn't! I hope.)

The initial problem is that my tonsils are already friggin huge. (If you go to the wiki link and look at the picture of tonsillitis, it's nowhere as...funky as mine.) I was floundering on the idea of a tonsilectomy since summer, since one parent is a supporter and one is a nay-sayer. I made my choice today by shining a flashlight into my mouth today and seeing what their size is. Usually smart tonsils have atrophized by now, but mine want to be special.