Originally Posted by
logofflater
I had my tonsils out when I was 5 and it was gruesome in the extreme. The pain never seemed to end. The adults had told me it wouldn't hurt and that I could have all the ice cream I wanted afterward. I wanted none. What I learned from that experience was that all adults will lie.
The only reason to have tonsils out is necrotic tissue. Short of that deal with it. Children need to be taken to the doctor and given antibiotics not made to tough it out resulting in necrotic tissue.
Where do people get the idea that children (or newborns) feel less pain than adults? Where does this idea come from?
Sorry for being off topic but I'd like my voice heard on this subject in counterpoint to the rosey previously expressed opinions. 61 years later and the pain is still vivid. The betrayal sharply remembered.
Poor Wilbur can't breathe right on a good day. Then when his tonsils swell up from strep he also can't swallow and he throws up and he gets dehydrated. He's had a lot of high powered antibiotics and they have not been terribly effective for him. I'm sure he is traumatized by the whole ordeal - who wouldn't be - they put electrodes all over his body, they have poked and prodded. Yes he does feel a lot of pain. He is one grumpy little old man that is 2 years old. Nobody has promised him anything that I know of. I just hope it helps him breathe and maybe get some sleep at night. He should be in preparation for surgery right now. I'm going over later to hold the baby so DD can deal with Wilbur.