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[superchemicalgirl]

I likely won't be doing it until early October, just because I want to transition my replacement in at work and then spend a week hiking/vacationing.

I do really like the Nancy Drew computer games, and one usually comes out in fall. I'll have something to do!

 

[Cynthia12]

scg...no ducks coming into my area..thank heavens..but they sure can spread that bird flu to other wild birds..we have those darn sparrows.

Happy, that you are happy, to get those tonsils out. Had a son that was sick all the time with a sore throat. They weren't taking them out as often by the time he showed up in the drs. office, but this dr. says, if anyone needed them gone, it was him. He was the one that stayed well after that, when everyone else was sick. Hope this works as well for you! You're smart to wait until later..too much fun stuff to get in before Oct.!

 

[1FlewOver]

SCG: I was told I needed my tonsils removed when I was six years old. I didn't get around to it until I was 28. It was a very miserable experience....I hope yours is not as bad. I went to an ENT and told him I needed my tonsils out. He said:" Well, we don't really do that anymore. Then he looked in my throat.......he said : "Ummmmmn, but yeah....those need to come out! How have you managed to stay alive with those?"

The truth is....I almost hadn't. For so many years, they would put me on antibiotics the infection would subside....(at which point I was supposed to schedule surgery and have them removed). I would get to feeling fine, and my tonsils weren't bothering me, so I just never got around to the surgery.

Then one day they put me in the hospital. They had swollen up so bad that I couldn't eat, drink, or talk.....just a little more and I wouldn't have been able to breathe. They were the size of golf balls and the space between was so small you couldn't have stuck a #2 pencil in past the lead. I decided I couldn't put it off anymore, so as soon as the infection was down a bit....I was in to see that ENT specialist.

A few other things: The modern way to remove them is with lasers.....mine were so large, it wasn't an option, they cut them out and stitched me up. They put me on morphine...no really, ....not that other stuff....honest to goodness morphine. They would come in and stick me in the butt....I would spend 15 min. trying to figure out what was on TV....I would look at the guide.....realize I needed to know what time it was, and look at the clock on the wall....then look back at the TV guide....and realize I needed to know what time it was....(I had already forgot) .....so I would look at the clock..........This would go on for around 15 mins. until I would pass out.....

I would wake up about 3 and a half hours later in excruciating pain until they came in and hit me in the butt....then ....no pain really, but 15 mins. of clock/ TV guide fun....for days.....

I won't go into the details of how and why I left the hospital when I did but it was too soon....and I was downing hydrocodone like they were M&M's....and they weren't working....I turned to supplementing them with a lot of beer and that helped some. Without the massive pain....such a combination would have made me very high....but I was sober .

I hope your experience is better....but after that, after all the years of being sick every couple of months, I enjoyed being in good health for years. My biggest regret was waiting so long to do it.

 

[superchemicalgirl]

Mine aren't super big but I get almost constant sore throats from them and when they get irritated they produce stones, which make them more irritated and sore.


I got another project finished last night, not a quilt, finally. Been working on it for a number of months. It's a period costume for a friends kid to attend things like Ren Fairs.

 

[dsqard]

SCG it looks GREAT!!

 

[Wisher1000]

YEAH it does!

 

[ronott1]

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I hope your experience is better....but after that, after all the years of being sick every couple of months, I enjoyed being in good health for years. My biggest regret was waiting so long to do it.

I do wonder why the medical world does that? There are reasons for tonsils co come out after all.

 

[Alaskan]

I used to greatly enjoy renfair stuff ! SCG it looks great!

 

[drumstick diva]

SCG Hoping for the best possible outcome. And YES, ice cream is STILL the best after a tonsillectomy. My son didn't want any (when he had his done) SO I ate it, made me feel better instantly.

 

[Alaskan]