Comments on: the chronicling of an adult tonsilectomy, part 1 http://laloca.org/archived/5830 stumbling toward sanity Fri, 26 Jun 2009 23:15:37 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: chawk http://laloca.org/archived/5830/comment-page-1#comment-18379 chawk Wed, 11 Jun 2008 01:30:43 +0000 http://laloca.org/archived/5830#comment-18379 I had a tonsilectomy 2 weeks ago and am fine. Popsicles were great as well as eggs and pancakes. After 4 days the pain was virtually gone and after 8 days I was out hiking. If you are about to have this done, don't worry about it...it's not that bad. I' already chugging down the wine!!! Don't be a complete wuss! Being a sissy is for boys! I had a tonsilectomy 2 weeks ago and am fine. Popsicles were great as well as eggs and pancakes. After 4 days the pain was virtually gone and after 8 days I was out hiking. If you are about to have this done, don’t worry about it…it’s not that bad. I’ already chugging down the wine!!! Don’t be a complete wuss! Being a sissy is for boys!

]]> By: milly http://laloca.org/archived/5830/comment-page-1#comment-18256 milly Fri, 06 Jun 2008 06:50:56 +0000 http://laloca.org/archived/5830#comment-18256 Not happy jan. i had my tonsillectomy 7 days ago, im still at home holding my throat im in so much pain, i hold ice to my throat all day, in attempt to numb the pain. and when i swallow it feels like i actually have a razor stuck in my throat, so they say keep drinking water, and eating. for the first 4 days i was ok with my water.. now i have this razor in my throat which litterally droppes me to the ground in pain throughout my whole face,head when i take a sip of water, and oh dear dont even try food. i have panadole, which doesnt subsiquently do alot for me. i have this feeling, were i would litterally kill someone to eat 2 hotdogs and drink 2-3 litres of cola and 4 litres of water, i think i would like that. i have eaten 3 peices of toast in thelast 5 days. ddont tell me to eat ice cream and pudding and jelly and custard, its worse. Tonsillectomy No No's Dairy- or to much of icecream- promotes flem, and bacteria spicy food- just no! nice breath- uh uh ur breath goes after 2 days you probally smell like shit What to do- make ice in your freezer, in those little icecube makers, or alternitavly go buy a bag of 3kgs of ice for about $6 easy. then get some, and crush it up! so you have lots of little chips, so u can put them in your mouth and it helps NUMB your mouth, then u can swallow them. also get some ice in a handtowel or soemthin and put it on your neck, on your glands, helps numb them.. both of these methods reduce pain immensly eat a peice of toast a day minimum! you must eat toast, it might hurt a little but you can suck ice straight after... if you dont you can end up bleeding from the mouth for hours. also eat your other food, but make sure u eat that toast or something of the same texture. take your meds. pleaseeeeeeeee! even if your feeling a whole lot better that one day.. take your meds on time, or the next day you will wake up in tears.. i wouldnt reccommend this surgery to my worst enemy, i dont see the worth in it. its just 2-3 weeks worth of EXCRUSHIATING pain for what? to miss out on a cold every year... or to miss out on tonsillitis, yeah ide rather get tonsilitis every year for the rest of my life. than go thru this again. my mother had the same surgery and has 5 children, all natural birth.. and says shed rather give birth to quadrouplets than do the surgery again. now THAT is saying something :| anyhow. if you have had this surgery.. here is some advice. and if you are having it soon, i wish you luck and i feel your pain. remember: ICE GOOD LUCK ALL x Not happy jan. i had my tonsillectomy 7 days ago, im still at home holding my throat
im in so much pain, i hold ice to my throat all day, in attempt to numb the pain. and when i swallow it feels like i actually have a razor stuck in my throat, so they say keep drinking water, and eating. for the first 4 days i was ok with my water.. now i have this razor in my throat which litterally droppes me to the ground in pain throughout my whole face,head when i take a sip of water, and oh dear dont even try food. i have panadole, which doesnt subsiquently do alot for me. i have this feeling, were i would litterally kill someone to eat 2 hotdogs and drink 2-3 litres of cola and 4 litres of water, i think i would like that. i have eaten 3 peices of toast in thelast 5 days. ddont tell me to eat ice cream and pudding and jelly and custard, its worse.
Tonsillectomy No No’s
Dairy- or to much of
icecream- promotes flem, and bacteria
spicy food- just no!
nice breath- uh uh ur breath goes after 2 days you probally smell like shit

What to do-

make ice in your freezer, in those little icecube makers, or alternitavly go buy a bag of 3kgs of ice for about $6 easy. then get some, and crush it up! so you have lots of little chips, so u can put them in your mouth and it helps NUMB your mouth, then u can swallow them.

also get some ice in a handtowel or soemthin and put it on your neck, on your glands, helps numb them.. both of these methods reduce pain immensly

eat a peice of toast a day minimum! you must eat toast, it might hurt a little but you can suck ice straight after… if you dont you can end up bleeding from the mouth for hours. also eat your other food, but make sure u eat that toast or something of the same texture.

take your meds. pleaseeeeeeeee! even if your feeling a whole lot better that one day.. take your meds on time, or the next day you will wake up in tears..

i wouldnt reccommend this surgery to my worst enemy, i dont see the worth in it. its just 2-3 weeks worth of EXCRUSHIATING pain for what? to miss out on a cold every year… or to miss out on tonsillitis, yeah ide rather get tonsilitis every year for the rest of my life. than go thru this again.

my mother had the same surgery and has 5 children, all natural birth.. and says shed rather give birth to quadrouplets than do the surgery again. now THAT is saying something :|

anyhow. if you have had this surgery.. here is some advice. and if you are having it soon, i wish you luck and i feel your pain. remember: ICE

GOOD LUCK ALL x

]]> By: Holly http://laloca.org/archived/5830/comment-page-1#comment-9461 Holly Wed, 11 Jul 2007 04:40:16 +0000 http://laloca.org/archived/5830#comment-9461 My first experience with a resident younger than me was on July 2nd (I didn't know at the time that residents started on July 1st) in Ann Arbor's UM hospital. The kid had the task of, um, lavashing my stomach via a tube thrust up my nose and... well. I was nervous. So I asked the kid how many times he'd done the procedure. "Seven." He replied. I told him it was my first and I'd appreciate being talked through it. Afterwards, he confided in me. "Thanks for being such a great patient. I feel like I need to tell you that while I had practiced the procedure... this was the first time I'd ever done it on a LIVE person." My first experience with a resident younger than me was on July 2nd (I didn’t know at the time that residents started on July 1st) in Ann Arbor’s UM hospital. The kid had the task of, um, lavashing my stomach via a tube thrust up my nose and… well. I was nervous. So I asked the kid how many times he’d done the procedure. “Seven.” He replied. I told him it was my first and I’d appreciate being talked through it.

Afterwards, he confided in me. “Thanks for being such a great patient. I feel like I need to tell you that while I had practiced the procedure… this was the first time I’d ever done it on a LIVE person.”

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