Hi!
Around winter, every time of year, some bug is going around. Strep throat, pink eye, pneumonia, flu, you name it.
On January 1st of 2007 I had an operation to remove my tonsils. My atenoids (if you don't know what that is, go find a dictionary) were removed when I was four. Surprisingly, my atenoids grew back and my tonsils swelled until I could barely breathe. It was hard to speak and my words often came out garbled. No one could understand me.
It came to the point where I had no choice but to remove them before I altogether started to suffocate. I was put to sleep during the operation and was (almost) back on my feet in the next four days. I could speak, breathe, and communicate much better with my family.
Before this point it was almost predictable that I would catch a sickness almost instantly. All the junk had been stored right in the two swollen spots in the back of my throat. But now I can stay a whole summer without getting sick once.
Well, now its february of 2009. Two years after that operation. My younger sister came home about two weeks ago with a cough and a raspy throat. I share a room with her. Do the math and you would find that I had a 99.9% chance of getting sick.
Somehow its two weeks in the future and I only have an occasional sneeze. Not an itch in my throat. At random points in the day I get extremely hot, then I am normal within two minutes. Did I mention that that has only happened three times in the passed week? Now my older sister is sick. She has been bed ridden for two days of this week and currently catching up in schoolwork.
Isn't it nice to be healthy? I think at some times it is. But right now I really, really want to sleep in. Have someone baby me. Is that too much to ask for?
I hope you all will have a good year!
Sunny-Dee
