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For Fun

Amy

Have you ever had surgery? What for?

Isn’t there a better way to word these ridiculous prompts?

I’ll play along today, WordPress.

Yes, I had a tonsillectomy and adenoidectomy at the age of four. Repeated ear infections were causing me to lose my hearing, so the adenoids – along with the tonsils as a bonus – had to go.

I woke up during the surgery, and a nice nurse told me to go back to sleep. Many years later, I would end up working in that same hospital. But I could never find my tonsils or my adenoids. They must’ve hidden them well. 

My hearing came back, and all was functioning well until recently when the ear infections returned, and now I am almost completely deaf in my left ear. No one really knows why, except repeated infections are known to do that. Does that answer your question, WordPress? Is this prompt data mining for the selling of organs on the black market?

This is me at the height of my sickness, and just prior to my surgery. At least that’s what my mom told me. The puppy in my lap is Flower. She died of distemper shortly after this. My mom talked about how much she loved this dog for the rest of her life.
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27 thoughts on “For Fun”

  1. You have a typo…auto correct? Death instead of deaf 

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  2. So sorry 😞
    And ugh, sometimes the prompts can’t get any worse!
    I did laugh at the “could never find my tonsils or adenoids” years later lol 😂
    Happy Saturday!

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    1. The questions they ask are like questions an alien would ask on their first day on earth. Lol.
      I’m glad you got a laugh out of that – it was intended to evoke that response. Happy Saturday! (Or, as Susie likes to call it, Caturday!) 😊

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  5. I too have deafness in my left ear and I wear a hearing aid 🦻🏻 for the last 12 months I’ve had a continuous infection in this ear that I’m given antibiotics and painkillers for but it doesn’t go away. It’s so annoying

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    1. I think I need a hearing aid. They are incredibly expensive though. But I can’t hear things well and I don’t know where sounds are coming from because I don’t have both ears working. Plus, I like to sing, and I can’t hear in stereo with my left ear not working. I understand what you’re saying about the continuous infection. I feel like I have the same situation

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    1. Not in my case. I don’t believe ice cream is the first thing given because of the dairy content – dairy makes thick mucus and you shouldn’t cough – although you do sometimes, even without ice cream – and then it’s not pleasant. I remember lots of popsicles.

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