Publishing findings on tonsillectomy

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Corey,

Please send the group notification if/when the Dr. publishes along with

his name. I would love to pass that information on to our specialist.

Our daughter has severe sore throat that looks like strep with each

fever. Hers are quite high (106-108 with temporal scan) and can last up

to 7 days.

We have not had a fever, however, for almost 6 weeks but have done

nothing differently.

Thank you!

Ginger

mother of le, 17 months

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From: [mailto: ] On Behalf Of

Corey

Sent: Monday, January 08, 2007 7:01 PM

Subject: Re: Karyn - Fevers after T & A ... are they still as

severe?

Hi :

We just returned from our ENT who also recommended tonsillectomy for

our 7 1/5 year old son. His experience with 30 or so kids is the same

as your doc's (all were symptom free post op). He believes there is a

type of with a type of throat symptom that leads to a high

degree of success with tonsillectomy. He is preparing to publish his

results.

So we are seriously considering the procedure. Our son, however,

seems to have stomach symptons between fever episodes which makes

things a bit more confusing. Have you experienced this?

Thanks

Corey

> > Hello everyone -

> >

> > I don't check in with the group very often anymore but wanted to

> share our success once again with the Tonsillectomy.

> >

> > We saw two specialists after our son suffered with for five

> years...one at Children's Memorial and one at University of Chicago.

> One physician told us to ignore any research we may find on

> tonsillectomy being a cure for and the other physician was

> much more optimistic and open to the idea.

> >

> > Additionally, our ENT was fantastic and went ahead and did her own

> research to find whether it would be worthwhile to undergo the

> tonsillectomy. She said the results were favorable and we decided to

> pursue it....what did we have to lose?

> >

> > I'm so happy to say that it's been one year and two months since

> the surgery and our son has only had ONE fever. It has been life

> altering....a miracle.

> >

> > Please, please do your own research and consider this!!! For five

> years, every month, our son suffered for three full days with a

> fever that spiked to 104 - 105 without Motrin. He was miserable.

> >

> > If you anyone would like to discuss this with us, please feel free

> to contact us at any time.

> >

> > Sincerely,

> > The Chiavola family

> >

> >