Posted on 01/21/2023 1:03:01 PM PST by ConservativeMind
Roger that. Thanks.
I grew up getting a lot of colds and sore throats. Sometimes my tonsils were so swollen I could barely swallow, felt like I had golf balls in my throat. My tonsils got full of holes with a white/yellow substance, that sometimes I would cough up and it smelled awful. But our GP told my parents I didn’t need my tonsils out. it just wasn’t done so much anymore and would give me anti-biotics and codeine for the pain.
A few days after graduating HS, I got really, really sick and my parents took me to an ENT. He was shocked, saying he was concerned I might go septic; the infection was that bad.
I was admitted to the hospital the next day and had a tonsillectomy. Best thing as I stopped getting sick all the time and wished they had been taken out years earlier.
So did you get to eat ice cream afterwards?
No ice cream. That causes phlegm that can make you cough. Fruit flavored popsicles and ginger ale
Our son’s ENT wasn’t a big proponent of removal but he said he has a handful of patients that could benefit and our son was one of them. He was concerned with all the medications, tubes etc. that he recommended it.
Glad my folks didn’t know that when I had my tonsils out. I had all the ice cream a kid could want (and popsicles).
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