The Pain of Extraction
As many of you probably already know, I went in for a tonsillectomy on February 3. Like many others, before actually scheduling the appointment, I thought nothing of it. I mean, little kids get this done all the time with no problem, right? Should be a piece of cake! Well, so one would think. The medical staff made sure to correct that thinking even before I said anything about it. "It's much worse for adults than it is for kids," they assured me. "In fact, you may be hurting pretty bad for up to two weeks!" Leave it to this stubborn man to think that I was going to bounce right back up and be OK. Five days with regular doses of Lidocaine and Hydrocodone later, and I'm still waking up with a miserable pain in the back of my throat. Like most people, sometimes I just wish, hope, and pray that the wounds would be instantly healed and that the pain would just go away. Other times, I just wish that I had never gotten the procedure done in the first pla