Tonsils ?
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shouldazagged
Absent Comrade
One of my most vivid early memories was looking up at a big light and seeing the ether mask come down, on my fourth birthday. But at eighty I still have my appendix and gall bladder.
Ozark Marine
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Mine flared up during ITR in the Marines.
Morning formation and Sgt said "sick, lame, lazy and crazy fall out for sick call".
Got to the Navy aid station, a Quonset hut, and Corpsman gives me the once over.
Corpsman gets the doctor and he spent about a minute looking down my throat.
He tells the Corpsman nothing he can do, that this Marine Pvt needs a Pediatrician.
I hump back to the area, thinking I'm going to die, a Pediatrician?? must be serious. I'm 17.
Told the 1st Sgt what the doc said and gave him the papers, he said to saddle up (M-16 field marching pack and helmet) and double time it to catch up to the company.
This is the day we humped Mt Mothertucker.
Still have my 66 YO tonsils, and the sweet memories of Mt Mothertucker.
Morning formation and Sgt said "sick, lame, lazy and crazy fall out for sick call".
Got to the Navy aid station, a Quonset hut, and Corpsman gives me the once over.
Corpsman gets the doctor and he spent about a minute looking down my throat.
He tells the Corpsman nothing he can do, that this Marine Pvt needs a Pediatrician.
I hump back to the area, thinking I'm going to die, a Pediatrician?? must be serious. I'm 17.
Told the 1st Sgt what the doc said and gave him the papers, he said to saddle up (M-16 field marching pack and helmet) and double time it to catch up to the company.
This is the day we humped Mt Mothertucker.
Still have my 66 YO tonsils, and the sweet memories of Mt Mothertucker.
ParadiseRoad
Member
...age 9 in 1962...our family doctor was a nice guy but not much of a doctor...other doctors have looked in there and asked what the hell happened back there?...still vividly remember the ether mask...using starting fluid to start diesel engines always brought that memory back...
...that was the same year that I ran through a field of stinging nettles in Nebraska...I got so sick that I came down with pneumonia...
...'62 was kind of a rough year for 9 year old me...
...that was the same year that I ran through a field of stinging nettles in Nebraska...I got so sick that I came down with pneumonia...
...'62 was kind of a rough year for 9 year old me...
I still have the parts I was born with. I did have surgery to repair one that you cannot live without.....
Still got 'em at 58.
Stage IV squamous cell carcinoma got my left one 4 1/2 years ago. I still have the other one.
Maybe that's why I lean to starboard.
Maybe that's why I lean to starboard.
Targets Guy
US Veteran
4 or 5. All I remember is the unlimited ice cream afterwards.
Age 6. I still remember the ether and the pain when I came out from under the anesthesia. But, I also remember the unlimited amount of ice cream I was permitted while my throat healed up.
I was also 6 when I had mine removed, I'll never forget the ether, but don't remember much pain. Had mine removed in the morning and was home that day.
Was promised laying around eating mass ice cream, and watching TV. Kennedy happened to get shot that day, so every channel...all 3 of them was Kennedy stuff non stop. Not much fun for a 6 year old.
Rpg
Member
Seemed like almost everyone in my elementary school in the '50's had their tonsils removed.
Most of them brought the tonsils in for 'show and tell': looked like smoked oysters floating in a pill bottle full of formaldehyde.
Smelled terrible when one kid uncapped the container and somehow spilled the contents. Don't know how that could have happened: we were just passing it around the class so everyone got a good look. I think the kid who had it before me loosened the cap to play a trick on me.
I must be the only person in my class who still has tonsils.
Most of them brought the tonsils in for 'show and tell': looked like smoked oysters floating in a pill bottle full of formaldehyde.
Smelled terrible when one kid uncapped the container and somehow spilled the contents. Don't know how that could have happened: we were just passing it around the class so everyone got a good look. I think the kid who had it before me loosened the cap to play a trick on me.
I must be the only person in my class who still has tonsils.
I didn't care much about the ice cream either....
Whatever they stretched my mouth open with split both sides of my mouth. I was unhappy about that
Whatever they stretched my mouth open with split both sides of my mouth. I was unhappy about that
I'm surprised they didnt'...
... grab the other one. Sometime around the 70's they got REALLY reluctant to remove anything.
... grab the other one. Sometime around the 70's they got REALLY reluctant to remove anything.
Still have all my original parts.
bigchuck83
Member
I was 12 and remember the pain after the surgery and not being able to eat or drink for several days. After a few days at home I somehow wound up blessing pretty bad and was slightly panicking while spitting out lots of blood, had the bright idea to just recline on the bed and not move and got the bleeding to stop.
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straightshooter1
US Veteran
Things always work out weirdly for me. In 2015 I was diagnosed with throat cancer based on squamous cell cancer in two lymph nodes in my neck.
This cancer had metastasized from somewhere else. But from where? Where was the Primary? My tonsils, perhaps?
OK, let's do a biopsy. Ouch, that hurt like the devil, but the biopsy was negative for cancer. Primary can hide or it can be dead with the only thing left, the metastasized stuff.
So, they radiated me all over my throat to make sure they got the little devil if it was hiding and by the 4th week, it was really hurting (but the VA is , or at least was, great about the pain pills). It really hurt for a couple of months after they declared me cancer free.
Fast forward to a few months later, VA hires a new ENT doc (great guy, too) and he's looking down my throat (which means he stuck a tube up my nose and down my throat with a little camera on it-nice!).
When I can talk, I say "How do my tonsils look?" Answer, "You don't have any. Looks like you had them removed when you were a kid? You didn't?"
So, to answer the OP's question, 67.
There cancers
This cancer had metastasized from somewhere else. But from where? Where was the Primary? My tonsils, perhaps?
OK, let's do a biopsy. Ouch, that hurt like the devil, but the biopsy was negative for cancer. Primary can hide or it can be dead with the only thing left, the metastasized stuff.
So, they radiated me all over my throat to make sure they got the little devil if it was hiding and by the 4th week, it was really hurting (but the VA is , or at least was, great about the pain pills). It really hurt for a couple of months after they declared me cancer free.
Fast forward to a few months later, VA hires a new ENT doc (great guy, too) and he's looking down my throat (which means he stuck a tube up my nose and down my throat with a little camera on it-nice!).
When I can talk, I say "How do my tonsils look?" Answer, "You don't have any. Looks like you had them removed when you were a kid? You didn't?"
So, to answer the OP's question, 67.
There cancers
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STAY AWAY FROM THE LIGHT!
All day long I thought this thread was titled "Toenails" so I skipped.
Including tonsils I have twelve.
I had mine out in '49. Not the gold rush '49 BTW.
I think if you had a sore throat they cut'em out.
I was promised ice cream, but after I came out of the ether it was melted. I was not happy, so I still remember.
I do have all my teeth though.
I think if you had a sore throat they cut'em out.
I was promised ice cream, but after I came out of the ether it was melted. I was not happy, so I still remember.
I do have all my teeth though.
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Still have mine and I hit 60 last week!
nachogrande
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THEY USED ETHER???
ETHER,
was this BEFORE electricity???
ETHER,
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