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I was bribed to have my tonsils out
And was betrayed by two females
Some years ago, I read a newspaper article with the headline.
“The radical new way to treat asthma-have your tonsils out”
I was intrigued enough to make some notes with the intention of writing an article for the platform Bubblews. I never got around to writing it.
Well, I am here to tell you I had my tonsils out when I was five years old, but I don’t remember suffering from asthma until I was about seven. So possibly it did not work for everybody.
But the memory of having my tonsils out is the reason for writing this quick post.
I was five years old and living with an aunt and two cousins in Southbourne. My two cousins were Antony, a year younger than me, and Carol, two years older.
Carol developed tonsillitis, and she was advised to have the little blighters removed. (Her tonsils, not me and her brother.)
For a reason I have never discovered, it was decided all three of us should have our tonsils removed.
An early version of buy one and get two free.
To get Antony and me to agree readily to this procedure, my aunt promised us a dish of ice cream once it was over.
