Point of advice
Do not have your tonsils removed as an adult unless you are incredibly miserable due to having them in. This may well top natural childbirth as the most painful and gross experience of my life. Now, I've been spending half of each of the last two years sick because of them, so I think it was the right decision, but DAMN. Probably going to get 'Mione's removed sometime this spring, since hers are already kind of large, and I don't want her going through this the way I did (it's very minor for children).