Surgeries... good, bad, not sure

I always love filling out medical forms when I am a new patient at a doctor's office or hospital.  Most give you this short line about this long _________________________________________________________ to fill out past surgeries.  Yeah, that doesn't work for me.

I have had a bunch of surgeries in my life.  Not to go in to too much detail with kinds, I have had kidneys, TB removed from lymph node, tonsils, sinuses, CSection (this list is longer actually).  I had surgery in 1976 (twice), 1980, 1989, 1994, 1995, 1996, 2005 and 2008.  That is a bunch of surgeries.

I have had very routine surgeries and also ones that I could have really died from.  I remember before my jaw reconstruction surgery, the Oral Surgeon listing off the warnings and disclaimers.  That surgery included anesthesia that took my blood pressure REALLY low because it was a bloody surgery.  I remember the look of shock and panic in my mother's face but still I had the surgery.

I could very easily have died in childbirth.  It was a God thing that I didn't but there were complications.

Where am I going with all of this?  There are risks to everything you do.  There are uncertainties in everything.  I believe strongly in doctors (and have put my life in many of their hands).  Faith plays into that alot.  With as many medical things as I have had go wrong and right in my life, I have to have faith.

With all that being said, Jody and I will soon be making the decision whether Cade has a tonsillectomy or not.  My poor baby boy has such problems with his sinuses and his tonsils and just gets worn out from them.  This will be the first time he will go under the knife in his life.  I am not sure how I feel about that.  I have no fear of surgery for myself.  Obviously, I have had enough and have put faith in enough medical personnel, but still not sure how I feel about Cade having surgery.  That is kinda scary.

Thursday he has an ENT appointment over in the Medical Center.  We will go from there.  On the one hand, I do not want him to have the pain of every other month tonsillitis because that just sucks, but I also don't want to have to put my little boy's life in someone else's hands.

Hmmmm.....