Genie, I hope you DO go see an ENT. I would hate to hear that you have permanent damage or a malignancy. Please get it checked, won't you? I re-read what I wrote about the anchovy day, and now I wish I had just cancelled out of that performance, not taking the risk to my vocal cords. If it was so bad that I would suck an anchovy, then I was too sick to sing (maybe sick in the head that day, LOL?). It is weird that sometimes when we are sick we get focussed on something we think we just have to do in spite of being sick.
Please get your throat checked out, Genie.

My site used to be on www.mcn.net (not men.net, as Susanne typed it in above) and the MCN ISP was sold and doesn't exist anymore. Sorry about that. I just give people my home domain page, now, http://www.aliceflynn.com
my current ISP has been sold again. The domain name will stay aliceflynn.com.
alice