Had Tonsillectomy Today!

Laughinduck... nobody has said anything about the removal of tonsils effecting my UC. We are just trying to figure my body out, and this was THE option that had any hope. My tonsils did hurt, they got sore, they were infected regularly. So... in the long run this is okay no matter what.

Thanks Lr21. It is rough, but just like any of our health problems on here... just taking it one day at a time gets you through it. I'll be feeling better in a week hopefully. Not completely better, but decent enough to not be doped up on lortab hopefully!

Tonight at about 11:30 pm my time I went into the bathroom and found that my stitches on the right side of my surgery site had let loose. The skin had come apart in this area, showing the full gap where the tonsils used to be. There is a line down the back of this gap that is bright red. I have been instructed to not fool around with any bleeding from the surgical site, so I called in to see if this was something I should worry about.

I was hoping that there was say maybe a nurse on staff that had certain guidelines to go by, to tell me if I needed to go to the ER. What ended up happening is that they called the doctor that did the surgery. She said unless it looked like a clot, or was really oozing blood, that I was probably okay. I felt like most likely I wasn't going to need to go in anywhere, but when stitches break and you see a line of blood, and they tell you to be concerned about blood, then I felt I needed to find more out.

I apologized to her several times for waking her up, but she said that I was fine and that it is good to be proactive about things like this.

I've never had to bother a doctor at home before. I guess that is why they get paid well, but I still feel intrusive doing so.

Thoreau, don't feel bad! Perhaps she was the on-call doctor for that night. If it had been another night, it might have been a different doc in the practice. I've had to speak to the on-call docs before, both when I was pregnant and for issues with my kids.

I also have no idea what Stealth meant about "vanity." I had my tonsils out when I was 5, because if I wasn't on penicillin, I had active strep. Taking my tonsils out got rid of the strep. Maybe, just maybe, if my parents had done it sooner, I wouldn't have UC today. Who knows. (And to be clear, I'm definitely not blaming them.)

Thoreau...what did the doc suggest?
It's good you called...better than the distress of worry.
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She also did say that if things got worse I could call again without worry.