Apropos this rotten cold, a poll.

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I've been hearing about this whole 'tonsil removal and ice cream' thing basically forever. And it puzzles me greatly.

Admittedly, I had my tonsils removed when I was 18, and had had serious trouble with them for years, so it was a fairly complicated removal, but it took me slightly more than a week to successfully consume 2 litres of water within a 24-hour period and thus win my release from hospital and my ever-present IV, yclept Henry. (Not, sadly, "Henry IV": I would totally do that now, but this was then.)

Cold water, as well as even the most forgiving solids, took ... rather longer. There's a reason nobody tells you to put ice directly on fresh stitches, let me tell you what.

Had anyone attempted to feed me ice cream directly after the surgery they would have been exceedingly fortunate to escape having suffered no more than a paint-strippingly old-fashioned look (and only because my throat was too swollen to allow me to talk and I was too loaded on Demerol to throw a punch, at that.)

Therefore:

Poll #17145 In this poll, "ice cream" can also mean frozen yoghurt, sorbet, rice dream, etc.

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I had my tonsils taken out!

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I was a child, and there was ice cream, and it was good.
12 (12.9%)

I was a child, and there was ice cream, and it was awful.
1 (1.1%)

I was a child, and there was no ice cream
6 (6.5%)

I was an adult, and there was ice cream, and it was good.
2 (2.2%)

I was an adult, and there was ice cream, and it was awful.
0 (0.0%)

I was an adult, and there was no ice cream.
3 (3.2%)

I retain both my tonsils and an uncontrollable desire to tick boxes.
69 (74.2%)

(Optional but interesting) My tonsils were removed in (year):

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[nineveh_uk]

Technically speaking I retain my tonsils, in that I have never had them removed via surgery, but according to the dentist I don't have any tonsils, and indeed I've never had tonsillitis despite ever other bit of my upper respiratory system being rubbish. Either I only ever had pathetic tonsils, or possibly they whipped them out when I had my adenoids removed in 1982. They didn't give me ice-cream then, but stewed fruit that I refused to eat because it was disgusting.

I had ice-cream in hospital after my sinus op a couple of years ago, but it was specifically an attempt to reduce the bleeding, and of course I didn't have a sore throat, just a disgusting one.

[shana]

They probably took them out with the adenoids - that's what they did with me in 1972.

I don't remember if I had ice cream. I do remember hos much my throat hurt. If my throat starts hurting anywhere close to that I know that I either have strep or there is marijuana smoke in the area. Tonsillitis didn't hurt as much as strep without tonsils does.