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?
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.