More than tonsils

[CUTLOOSE JOHN]

• When I was 5 years old, I was told that I was going into the hospital to have my tonsils removed and that my throat would be sore after, but I could eat lots of ice cream. Imagine how I felt when I woke up and found that not only was my throat sore, but my penis too! I had been cut and told nothing about it.

[mlwj]

Wow, that's awful. Circumcision always is, but lying on top of it - yikes.

[CUTLOOSE JOHN]

I remember after that my Dad said, "We made a man of you." Actually, they took my manhood away!

[greg_b]

Wow, talk about deception and nonconsent! Clearly they had no good argument for it, and realized that given a choice you would likely be against removing that part of your anatomy, but chose to go against your presumed wishes.

At least I had it done as an infant, so didn't have to process that type of situation regarding my parents. Made a man of you, yeah right, by taking away the specialized part of your anatomy that makes you a man....

[CUTLOOSE JOHN]

Thanks for your reply. I still get angry about it.

[Frizzen]

Yeah, it's really awful that so many Docs want to upgrade Tonsils to "T&C" since you're already knocked out and can't fight them off. How DARE you still be intact, don't you know that they want more money?

At least now there's a lot more known about their role in your immune system, and there are less radical ways they can attack tonsils. There's still no defense for the genital mutilation.

I remember how much it sucked waking up from JUST a tonsillectomy, and how much everyone kept pestering me to talk, and eat ice cream, and would not leave me alone. (At the time I'm allergic to cows, if i eat ice cream i will be puking within 20 min, how would that be 'better' than just hurting? Vomiting off the clots sure does sound pretty awesome. Eventually they did find something i could eat, and felt like swallowing razor blades)

'but you can have all the ice cream you want...' Good, i don't want any! I've already had all i want!

I'm sorry that you had to go through both at once, and with even more lies!

[CUTLOOSE JOHN]

Thanks. I'm sorry I had to go through both, too! I don't know why I was cut - yes, there is the money for the doctor thing, or perhaps he knew that almost all the boys in my small town had been cut at birth and he thought I should be done before starting school do I wouldn't be "different," or perhaps because my foreskin wasn't retractable yet (although 5 is a little young for it to retract...more like 10 to puberty). My parents and the doctor are gone, so I'll never know.

[Nthehood]

That's terrible, also 5 seems an odd age. Many like me were cut as an infant

[CUTLOOSE JOHN]

Yeah, I know 5 is odd. I was an elementary school teacher for many years before I retired, and I remember twice when a kindergarten boy (age 5) at my school was circumcised. Both times, the boy came back to school a day or so after it was done, upset and in pain.