jpmattia says >"Tonsillectomies used to be very common when I was growing up, and eventually that stopped"< Luckily, as a child I had my tonsils removed. It wa

jpmattia says >"Tonsillectomies used to be very common when I was growing up, and eventually that stopped"< Luckily, as a child I had my tonsils removed. It was just something almost everyone did. After that I had only an occasional sore throat. In contrast friends who still had their tonsils had serious illness, visits to the hospital, weeks out of school and parents who constantly worried. So as far as tonsils are concerned my feeling are "Good riddance!"