(1) White Spots on Tonsils Personal Experience Series: Eating French Fries
Just thought of sharing some of my personal stories when in my days I still had these irritating white spots on tonsils.
Throughout my childhood, I would cough/spit up little ones from time to time. They smelled gross if I broke them open, but other than that they weren’t such a big deal. Our family doctor once mentioned that my tonsils were larger than normal and that it was likely that I would need to have them out at some point, but I never did have them out. Why not? This is a story of another day!
When I was in college, I was eating some french fries one time and felt a sharp sensation as I swallowed, followed by a feeling of something in my throat. I looked back there, and there was a big chunk. Was it a piece of french fry? Or just a coincidental tonsil stone? Whatever it was, it was stuck in my throat for nearly a week. I went to the school nurse, but she couldn’t see anything in there at all, let alone identify it. It finally popped out when I was singing (I was a voice/music ed major) and I swallowed it before I realized that it was out. (I tried not to think about that too much!) The very idea of coughing up tonsil stones make me sick if I think about it. These cryptic tonsils wew indeed a bane of my life, I will however continue to share with you in what I am now terming “White spots on tonsils personal experiences series”