Tonsils Surgery I was in fifth grade, ten years young and was constantly in and out of school with strep throat. I have been to the doctors so much I felt as if I lived there. They told me enough was enough and I needed to get my tonsils out (and adenoids they are a package deal basically). I was very nervous to get my first surgery but all the doctors were telling me that if I do get them out it will be a lot harder for me to catch strep, which they were right because six years later I only got it once. They told me I needed it done soon so they booked me the earliest appointment. I went in the first week of November so that way I would be fine by Thanksgiving. I have never been on laughing gas before and I loved it because I was making everyone …show more content…
They wheeled me into the room and all of the nurses and doctors were asking me questions. The last doctor had asked me what my favorite color was, and as I was going to say blue he covered my face with a red mask and I was out cold. Once I woke up my parents and a nurse were sitting across from me and the nurse handed me a Blue raspberry slurpee. My throat was absolutely killing me and I couldn't stop crying. A doctor came over and asked me if I had any intentions on being an astronaut when I grew up and when I said no and he told me I wasn't able to anyway because they removed my adenoids and you need them to go up past the sphere we live in. The recovery took almost two weeks (bad pain tolerance I guess). I had to eat ice cream for a week, almost week and a half and lost 15 pounds. After the first week I started eating mashed potatoes and it hurt going down but felt good getting food in my system. All I wanted was pizza and got to the point where I almost put it in my blender. I went to a check up 8 days after the surgery and they told me the healing is going good but I should start trying to and get chips down to scrap the scabs of the stitches. When I first tried to swallow a chip it felt like i was pulling a scab off my skin that bleeds immediately after you peel it. It hurt so bad but I knew if I wanted my tonsils to get better I had to keep swallowing them. Still to this day getting my tonsils out was the worst …show more content…
I didn’t talk a lot of the recovery so I had to write everything down I wanted to say. It was a real pain in the butt writing down everything you wanted to say, especially when you were in school because you couldn't give anyone the “what do you want I don't want to talk” face. One day when I got home from school I sat on my couch and started watching Drake and Josh. It is a comedy show so I was laughing a lot but then all of a sudden I started to choke. I didn't know what to do so I started to hit my stomach and then I coughed up a blood ball onto the floor and my stitches were inside. It was so gross. I ran into the room next to me to tell and show my mom what had just happened. She was grossed out and called the doctor right after to see if that was suppose to happen. They said that was why they told me to eat chips because it would scrp the stitches and I would be done with recovery. Still to this day I haven’t watched Drake and Josh because I am scared to choke