posted on Jun, 9 2009 @ 02:04 AM
Had a tonsillectomy at age 30, worst experience to the point I wanted to take my own life. The op went badly with haemorrhaging and my tonsils were
so infected they practically disintegrated and had to be painstakingly dug out, so my throat was like something that had been stabbed raw and stiched
up countless times. Nothing could help the pain, morphine made me vomit. I lost tons of weight and it was excruciating the whole time i healed,
after 4 days I cried for the first time since I was 20, the pain broke me and I couldn't cope. They told me day 7 is the magic day when I'll start
to feel heaps better and that was the only thing keeping me going. They had me on antibiotics but after 7 days things started getting far worse and I
was re hospitalized for 2 days because of a reinfection, lost weight, dehydration etc (was to hard to eat or drink anything. Then put on some sort of
antibiotic drip, ended up dosing with morphine and anti nausea meds to counter it. Was another 5 days before I felt like I could cope.. I just wanted
to die when they said it was infected. For months I had PTSS from the experience, nothing ever took me to the edge like that before. I guess in the
end it made me stronger and let me know that no matter how bad things can get you can hang in there.