Day 12 - alot of hours- Who's idea was this anyway?

Whose idea was this any way? I’ve officially burned a hole in my tongue and given myself a sore throat from the over consumption of Altoids. I’m not surprised. Earlier in the week I commented that one would get tired of their replacement and want to go back to tobacco or move on to another form of replacement. Well fortunately and unfortunately my next form can’t be edible because I have a hole in the back of my tongue and throat. Ok not an actual hole but it feels like it. The area is irritated and raw feeling and swallowing is difficult to say the least, and there is swelling.

Yes if it persists I will have it checked out. Wouldn’t that be ironic? I quit chewing only to find out that I have cancer. That would be incredibly messed up. I understand that the symptoms I am describing also fit with the development of cancer. But the truth is it’s also a big white patch on the back of my tongue that is dissipating the longer I go without the Altoids. And we’ll see if the irritation goes away by the end of the weekend. Also for the record, I went through 24 tins of those Altoids, I got to where I would pop 6 of them at a time, and it’s no wonder why it would be irritated.

Wow those pictures are nasty, talk about real life Nightmare on Elm Street. Freddy is coming to get me. The pictures of the cancer look nothing like my tongue. Actually my tongue looks like rush according to the internet picture I found. With a couple white spots on my tonsils looking like strep throat. The white patchy stuff is subsiding. The image to the right is a picture I copied off of the internet with patchy coloration looking like my tongue. The picture to the left is my patchy tongue with the irritated spot in the middle. The area was probably twice as long earlier today. This is as good a reason to quit chew as any. Too many close calls, too many what ifs. I’m glad I quit when I did, wish I’d quit sooner.