[curun1r]

Me too post...

Tonsils and Adenoids out when I was 3, so I don't remember it as vividly as you do, but I also woke up hours before I was expected to. They'd strapped me to the bed so that 3-year-old me couldn't mess with the IV they'd put in my arm. My throat was in searing pain, but was too sore to make a noise loud enough to alert any of the nurses, so I lay there in pain for almost an hour with no way to do anything about it. They sent me home a couple of days later, but it was weeks before I could eat solid foods and I had to go back to the ER to get IV fluids multiple times or I would've died.

I try to tell my story whenever it's relevant because I believe doctors and parents severely underestimate how traumatizing this kind of procedure can be for children.