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@madison @nihilvt @JollyR @cosmonautkatyusha YES

@madison @nihilvt @JollyR @cosmonautkatyusha I have always had huge tonsils but never got a tonsilectomy or whatever the word is shutup autocorrect it's close enough I'm sure ANYWAY one of them has a bit of a divot or whatnot and so I get to deal with the lovely experience of tonsil stones every once in a while

i've never had anything removed from my body that is supposed to be there.

@madcuzbad @nihilvt @JollyR @cosmonautkatyusha @madison
I'm not sure why tonsillectomies were a thing that people did but I remember multiple people getting them; I don't recall hearing about anyone who had to get one because it was life-threatening so I'm not sure what that was about

@scenesbycolleen @nihilvt @JollyR @cosmonautkatyusha @madcuzbad @madison they get infected and you can die, and they seem to be a vestigial organ with no purpose

they said that about the apendix too, but just cuz you can lvie without it doesn't mean it has no purpose and they found that it does in fact have a purpose.

@madcuzbad @nihilvt @JollyR @cosmonautkatyusha @madison @scenesbycolleen sounds like it's mainly when you're a child and the immune system has redundancy so it's not so bad to remove them.

@sun @nihilvt @JollyR @cosmonautkatyusha @madcuzbad @madison So it can be life-threatening, I see
So it's like the appendix?
Maybe I should read about tonsils sometime, now I'm curious

@scenesbycolleen @nihilvt @JollyR @cosmonautkatyusha @madcuzbad @madison I'm not endorsing pre-emptively removing anything but yes, I think sepsis? not sure

@sun @nihilvt @JollyR @cosmonautkatyusha @madcuzbad @madison lol no I'm not planning on removing my tonsils but now I'm curious about them

They are part of the immune system, really. Checking out what you are swallowing, sort of an early warning system.

One of those things that has changed as I got older, they don't swell up and get angry so much any more.

@sun@shitposter.world @scenesbycolleen@poa.st @nihilvt@loli.rodeo @JollyR@nicecrew.digital @cosmonautkatyusha@nicecrew.digital @madcuzbad@nicecrew.digital @madison@nicecrew.digital i had mine removed when I was a kid. The best part was the free ice cream

that's what my teacher said, i was like *shrug* i can get as much ice cream as i want any time. lol.

@madcuzbad @xaetacore @nihilvt @JollyR @cosmonautkatyusha @madison @scenesbycolleen @sun At some point somebody noticed that more people die under general anesthetic than ever die from appendicitis.

@yockeypuck@poa.st @madcuzbad@nicecrew.digital @nihilvt@loli.rodeo @JollyR@nicecrew.digital @cosmonautkatyusha@nicecrew.digital @madison@nicecrew.digital @scenesbycolleen@poa.st @sun@shitposter.world i am not getting my appendix removed when i'm awake.
I have all four of my wisdom teeth removed under full Anesthesia mainly because I have trauma from teeth pulling when I was a child. And I wanted to get it Uber within one go.

I'm not afraid of the dentist only.Teeth pulling

@xaetacore @cosmonautkatyusha @madison @yockeypuck @scenesbycolleen @nihilvt @JollyR @madcuzbad he's right but also anesthetic is like a top-five human invention.

There's been a back and forth since the 1900s whether operating or just leaving it alone is safer.

Like your appendix

@sun @scenesbycolleen @JollyR @cosmonautkatyusha @madcuzbad @madison @nihilvt >they seem to be a vestigial organ with no purpose

thats just not true. more pharma inc lies

usually people have their tonsils removed if they're problematic sometimes they can be, like the appendix, it's only removed if it's an issue

I kept getting strep, I'm not kidding ALMOST every other month. It was too much so I had them removed but I believe back when I was a kid it was being done too often. They DO have a purpose, obviously God designed us perfectly. But

vestigal organs, right? Let's steal them.

but i persoanlly have never had any medical issues that resulted in something like that, in my life thus far lol

Had mine out at 5. My Son had his out at 15. They kept swelling and had to go. Upside is you can't get strep.

I had mine removed because they were large and I got strep every other month as a little girl and finally they were like "WE ARE REMOVING THEM!!!" And I'm positive the excessive infections and antibiotics use is why I'm so allergic to antibiotics now

@madison @nihilvt @JollyR @cosmonautkatyusha ohhhhhhh dang
Did the tonsil swelling make the infections worse, or was it just so difficult to deal with that they decided to take them out?

@madison @scenesbycolleen @nihilvt @JollyR @cosmonautkatyusha "I had mine removed because they were large"

I saw that first & thought you were about to say you gotta booba reduction and I was about to send Tyler a condolences gift basket & the number for a suicide hotline.

WHEW.

c'leen.

I never knew how weird biology could get until I worked as a CNA in a nursing home

@scenesbycolleen @madison @nihilvt @JollyR @cosmonautkatyusha Save them for a pizza.

@ForbiddenDreamer @madison @nihilvt @JollyR @cosmonautkatyusha

@scenesbycolleen @madison @nihilvt @JollyR @cosmonautkatyusha A creamy bagel spread then?

i have had them, many decades ago.

but sailors do the most disgusting things.

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