Anyone still have their tonsils?

I still have mine, and their presence was never troublesome or brought up as a personal issue. I can remember that tonsils were once routinely hacked out of children, however...
 

Mrs. Robinson said:
Had mine out on June 24,1958. How do I know the exact date? It was my 8th birthday....:mad:

Was at my granddaughter`s graduation party Friday night and one of my 19 yo grandson`s friends was there and she just had her tonsils out last week. She was doing really well,considering that is a tough surgery when you are no longer a child,but she said it is now a laser surgery-no cutting involved-so it`s much less painful than it used to be.
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I still have mine but sure remember when lots of kids were getting them taken out. I can't recall the last time I heard of someone getting tonsils removed, but it's been decades.

Seems that not too long after tonsillectomies went out of fashion, tubes in little kids' ears became a popular surgery. Wonder if they addressed the same issues?
 
Still have mine.Came close to losing them in my early thirties after several bouts of tonsillitis but fortunately the problem disappeared.
 
I had a lot of sore throats when I was a kid. My Mom used to swab my throat with nasty Mercurochrome. When I was 9 they decided the tonsils had to come out. I clearly remember lying on the operating table. They smeared carbolated petroleum jelly over my eyes and put the mask on my face. The smell of ether still gags me.

Don
 
Grampa Don said:
I had a lot of sore throats when I was a kid. My Mom used to swab my throat with nasty Mercurochrome. When I was 9 they decided the tonsils had to come out. I clearly remember lying on the operating table. They smeared carbolated petroleum jelly over my eyes and put the mask on my face. The smell of ether still gags me.

Don
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I remember Mercurochrome .. it stained the skin, red. Then, there was iodine.
 
Sassycakes said:
I had my tonsils removed when I was 4 yrs old and my sister had hers removed the same day and she was 6yrs old. She asked for ice cream after and since I didn't like ice cream I got Jello ! That made me happy.LOL
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It’s funny you should say that, I was 6 years old and my sister was 4 years old and we both had our tonsils removed at the same time! I remember this was back in the 60s when they did not allow visitors even parents in the hospital especially to stay we stayed there for one overnight and I was terrified! We both were in separate beds and the beds were like cribs, I felt like I was in a cage, it was a traumatic experience for both her and I remember it being very painful.
 
I still have mine even though I had a few sore throats. The tonsils are merely large lymph nodes located in your throat where they produce antibodies to fight off illness, both bacterial and viral. Personally, I'll take all the immunity I can make.

From the web:
The tonsils are lymph nodes in the back of the mouth and top of the throat. They help to filter out bacteria and other germs to prevent infection in the body. A bacterial or viral infection can cause tonsillitis.

My 15 YO granddaughter has had a few sore throats and says she wants to have a tonsillectomy but she would have to miss 2 weeks of school post-op. And with her low threshold for pain, I have tried to talk her out of it because I don't think she knows how painful it will be. Her father has wisely taken a wait and see approach.
 
I still have my Tonsils....But I don't have a Gall Bladder....My brother and my daughter both had to get their Gall Bladder removed....So did my Mom.... Probably run's in the family....
 
Had mine out at 22 y.o.....they were always infected, no sore throats tho....infections spread to my lymph nodes under my chin....they were big bumps I could move around with my finger and they were always sore....had double surgery to have all of it removed.....did well rest of my life unless I start getting sick....
 
Yeah, I had mine out when I was 4 or 5. I remember the surgery well, and so does the doctor. I was laying on the operating table. The doctor came in. They started to tie my arms down, when the doctor said, "He's a good boy, you won't need that." Just then someone put that mask over my face and I got a whiff of the ether. Well, I wasn't having any of that nonsense. I was going home. I started kicking. I knocked the instuments of a table, and I did a number on the doctor. Got him good several times. Finally they got that mask on me. I saw the doctor a week later, he was still hurting from my kicking him.
 
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