For Real?

I think that being a parent teaches you to be expect almost anything. Katherine had been saying that her throat hurt for about a week but we were not only knee deep in Lauren's poopy problem, we also kind of thought it was just a cry for attention at the time since she only said it about once a day & didn't seem otherwise bothered. Finally, I looked in her throat on Wednesday and not only was her right tonsil red and inflamed, it had something big and white on it. The George Costanza in me immediately thought "Cancer! Yikes!" so I called the ped and got her right in. By the way, being such a frequent visitor of the pediatricians, we get great service now. The doc took a look and said that it's a piece of food (probably rice or corn) that's caught on her tonsil. Apparently it's been there for awhile and her body is treating it as a foreign object and rebelling against it. He prescribed antibiotics (which I haven't filled yet because I'd really rather not have her on them if it can be avoided) and said if she's still complaining in a week, to come back and he will remove it. Yeah, that sounds really fun...NOT!! Now, every night since, we spend about a half hour making weird throat sounds with K and encouraging her to chug drinks in an effort to dislodge the offending food particle. Yeah, I'm aware that we are weird.