At Your Age

So, ya'll know I've been battling with Strep Throat this year. I'm up to 4 times now since December. Yes...that's a lot and yes, it's annoying. My last bout was the weekend before last and I ended up in the ER all for them to tell me I had a sore throat. Seriously. But, that's a whole other story. So I kept getting told to follow up with an ENT dr to see about getting my tonsils out.

So today was my appointment with said ENT doc. I arrive promptly on time and wait about 3 minutes in the waiting room..go back to the room..waited about 1 minute and the doc came in. He examined my mouth, nose and ears. Said my tonsils were OK and that it was a bad year for strep. Very bad. Then he goes into a speech about how "at your age" getting your tonsils out is not an easy procedure. "At your age" the recovery time for a tonsillectomy is about 1 1/2 - 2 weeks. So "at your age" I should wait and see..if I get strep 2 more times in the next 4 months then we'll talk seriously about the tonsils coming out. He seriously said "at your age" about 6 times. Geez..you'd think I was 100 or something. He was in and out of the room in about 7 minutes. So from my arrival to my departure was about 20 min and about $150. Good times..."at my age"...