I do taste like chicken.

A few months back I found a growth in my throat. I went to a doctor who agreed there was something, so he sent me to a Nose/Throat Specialist. That doc didn't even see it when he looked in my mouth. I showed him where it was and he said "Oh, that's just your tonsil." I had my tonsils removed when I was a kid. So he examined it futher by palpatation and by sticking a scope up my nose to see it from the top. That was an odd experience. He says it's just my tonsil grown back, which rarely happens, but does. He's 99% sure that it's nothing else, certainly nothing malignant. To be 100% sure, he said I could get it biopsied. Yes please.

So yesterday morning I went to his offices and got some tissue removed from my throat. It was a bit more invasive than I thought, though not bad, really. They took out four little samples for biopsy and the doctor reasserted that he thought it was tonsil tissue.

Since yesterday I've been on Vicodin for the pain. It's made me dowsey, dizzy, and nauseous. The pain is all but gone. I took half a dose this morning and I don't know that I'm going to take any more, possibly one more later. I should be fine. I'm supposed to get the biopsy results in a week or two.

The most interesting part of the procedure is that when they cauterized the extraction points in my throat I could smell/taste my own burning flesh, and you know what? I do taste like chicken.