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Guy Duperreault's avatar

Wow! This is such great research, Tessa. Thank you.

And it brings back my childhood memories of the big push for tonsillectomies. My best friend had his removed, as did many (most?) of my school mates in elementary school. I didn't, as my parents were skeptical of procedures to *prevent* disease and often turned to alternative herbalist and the like to help recover from *actual* sickness.

And there was the waffling of what that danger of tonsillectomy *really* means! OMG, the exact same MSM dismissal:

"This should not be interpreted to mean, however, that tonsil operations are likely to lead to polio when there is no epidemic, or that those without tonsils are more likely to contract the disease. All it means is that children of certain ages should not have a tonsillectomy performed on them curing the period of the epidemic."

The turtles are expanding. Amazing times.

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Abigail Starke's avatar

I always wondered why these were taken out so much. Why God created us with them only to be taken out? Same thing with the appendix and wisdom teeth.

My t/a were taken out 3 1/2 because they were heavily stuffed and I think infected and I couldn’t hear. When the pediatrician told my parents to get my ears checked bc I seemed to not hear well and other tests came out fine. The ENT found out I was hearing like I had headphones on.

So the surgeon removed the gunk and the t/a and then they put tubes in my ears. I received ear infections a lot. Idk if it was bc the t/a out...

I swam a lot. The dr or someone told us to use a mix of alcohol and vinegar and that helped to dry up whatever was causing the ear pain.

Anyway, I am glad I can hear and from then I went on to go to a speech pathologist and two different speech schools before and during preschool to learn to speak and figure out the new sounds and language i could now hear.

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