On August 8th 2013 at 0730, I'll be admitted to the Ear, Nose and Throat (and head and neck) unit. I'll have had no breakfast - nil by mouth starts the night before. This is so that I do not vomit up my breakfast while under anaesthetic and get semi-digested Corn Flakes all down the surgeon's scrubs.
After a preliminary assessment and signing a few waivers, I'll be put on a gurney, put under by the anaesthetist, and wheeled into surgery. And this is when the real fun starts.
There are a handful of different techniques for the removal of tonsils. Mine is a bit of a hybrid - cold steel for the actual removal, followed by heat-based cauterisation. Then I'm brought round, and left to wake up over time. They don't keep me in overnight in this cold, impersonal dystopia of a health service, so my lovely wife Siri is taking the day off, to bundle my gibbering, crippled body into a taxi and install me in front of the telly for a couple of weeks.
There, I'll spend my time trying to force food down myself, and catching up on some tellybox viewing. The Returned, Downton Abbey, couple of movies I've been meaning to see, all good.
And that is the true story of how my tonsillectomy's going to go down.
After a preliminary assessment and signing a few waivers, I'll be put on a gurney, put under by the anaesthetist, and wheeled into surgery. And this is when the real fun starts.
There are a handful of different techniques for the removal of tonsils. Mine is a bit of a hybrid - cold steel for the actual removal, followed by heat-based cauterisation. Then I'm brought round, and left to wake up over time. They don't keep me in overnight in this cold, impersonal dystopia of a health service, so my lovely wife Siri is taking the day off, to bundle my gibbering, crippled body into a taxi and install me in front of the telly for a couple of weeks.
There, I'll spend my time trying to force food down myself, and catching up on some tellybox viewing. The Returned, Downton Abbey, couple of movies I've been meaning to see, all good.
And that is the true story of how my tonsillectomy's going to go down.
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