no, not that movie with the bad weather, my tonsillectomy on Friday.
28 year old male, a lifetime of tonsil trouble, twice nearly had the op before, once 18 years ago ( moved hundreds of miles away long before a date for the op) and 8 or so years ago that was put on hold due to the hoo-ha over instruments and Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, I sort of chickened out over the course of that few years and didn't pursue it, I still however suffered with bursts of it, rarely a full on 2 weeks in bed bout, but every other month a trip the doctors and a few days in bed.
Still with me, a bit of boring background info their I know.
Anyway, at the start of May this year I presented my GP with a growth on one of my tonsils, apparently I had the biggest one she'd ever seen o.O ( 1st time a women said that to me :-D ), growth that is, about twice the size of a kidney bean and a similar shape placed in such a way that it has to be moved into view, she was a little puzzled but settled on calling it a polyp, now, I had imagined upon discovering this that it would mean a full tonsillectomy, but she suggested a little numbing spray and the ENT clinic would probably just cut it off, o.k..............less than 3 weeks later I see the ENT consultant who says he's quite sure it's a benign growth but can't be positive until it's removed but it also presents a serious airway risk with its size increasing and as it's so integral to the tonsil the tonsil will have to be removed and if you're removing one then they both should go. At that second I felt as if the someone had focused the heat of the sun directly on me (oh f@*k I thought).
I'm quite excited about a life without them but I'm also a recovering depressive and pathological pessimist so with the help of google I of course searched for every horror story and death associated with tonsillectomy's I could find and I've sort of convinced myself I'm going to die, my biggest worry number 1 out of about 30 is not coming back from the anaesthetic, I've never had one before.
That you for reading my little tale of terror. ;-)
28 year old male, a lifetime of tonsil trouble, twice nearly had the op before, once 18 years ago ( moved hundreds of miles away long before a date for the op) and 8 or so years ago that was put on hold due to the hoo-ha over instruments and Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, I sort of chickened out over the course of that few years and didn't pursue it, I still however suffered with bursts of it, rarely a full on 2 weeks in bed bout, but every other month a trip the doctors and a few days in bed.
Still with me, a bit of boring background info their I know.
Anyway, at the start of May this year I presented my GP with a growth on one of my tonsils, apparently I had the biggest one she'd ever seen o.O ( 1st time a women said that to me :-D ), growth that is, about twice the size of a kidney bean and a similar shape placed in such a way that it has to be moved into view, she was a little puzzled but settled on calling it a polyp, now, I had imagined upon discovering this that it would mean a full tonsillectomy, but she suggested a little numbing spray and the ENT clinic would probably just cut it off, o.k..............less than 3 weeks later I see the ENT consultant who says he's quite sure it's a benign growth but can't be positive until it's removed but it also presents a serious airway risk with its size increasing and as it's so integral to the tonsil the tonsil will have to be removed and if you're removing one then they both should go. At that second I felt as if the someone had focused the heat of the sun directly on me (oh f@*k I thought).
I'm quite excited about a life without them but I'm also a recovering depressive and pathological pessimist so with the help of google I of course searched for every horror story and death associated with tonsillectomy's I could find and I've sort of convinced myself I'm going to die, my biggest worry number 1 out of about 30 is not coming back from the anaesthetic, I've never had one before.
That you for reading my little tale of terror. ;-)
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