Tonsils out time
as anyone whom has them out (fnar fnar) knows, its best when a child.

my wife had them done when she was 27, privately as it took 3 weeks not 3 years to get done. Goes to Nuffield, same surgeon as NHS hospital, and all goes well.

5 days after the op, she goes home and we decide to be civilised and have a few mates round for dinner at wifes parents home where she is recovering.

About 4 hours before they arrive, wifey decides to dye her hair a shade of redpepper to highlight her dark hair. Whilst leant over with hair mid dye she could see drops forming in the water. "thats funny, my hair is wrapped.....urghhle splurgh gurgle aaahhhh" then i hear a "uugghhh-elp me- huuueurghh" and i ran upstairs to find red everywhere and near panic sets in. Her tonsils had not sealed up again and had ruptured in here throat spewing blood. I felt the pangs of losing a wife and grabbed her, stuck her in the Clio and dashed the 4 miles to petersfield A&E. i drove at way over the speed limit, screeching tyres until i parked on the double yellows at the door of A&E figuring enough of an emergency to cover it. Ran in - and asked for immediate help the staff pointed at the 3 man queue of people and said "you'll have to get in a queue, 45 minute wait you know. harrumph" "Spewing blood, possible internal haemorhaging and about to drown in it YOU KNOW please see to it as an EMERGENCY" - at that point the staff actually sat up and did their job, Triage nurse came in 30 seconds and managed to get her into a room and helped stop the bleeding with swabs etc.

Bloody scary. We got sent home 4 hours later, after the lovely nurses washed the dye out of her hair - it had gone ginger by then in patches.

We had a late dinner, and around 1am we got a phone call from A&E to say that they should not have sent her home - had they ruptured whilst asleep she really would have started to drown in her own blood. They sent an ambulance to pick her up and take her to hospital at around 2am. 3 days of observation before they were happy.

Fuggin lucky i can understand gurgling for help. And can get a 1.2 Clio over 30mph with 2 people in it.
( bazza van der trance , ooh baby baby, baby baby. Get up on this., Thu 14 Aug 2008, 14:19, 2 replies)

Oof, blimey
And as for the last line- that IS talent!

I had mine done privately too, just as well, years of suffering but they still wanted to put me on a waiting list years long. I hae sleep apnea and they thought the tonsils/adenoids removal would help...I didn't know that at the time though, weird what they prioritised
( Jessie © needs pirate name suggestions, Thu 14 Aug 2008, 14:30, closed)

NHS is weird
priorities on ops seems really to be random!

Private seems ace - trouble is the mrs couldn't eat or drink booze. The pukka cuisine, G&T before dinner and wine with dinner was sadly not used!
( bazza van der trance , ooh baby baby, baby baby. Get up on this., Thu 14 Aug 2008, 14:39, closed)