Much ~ma to you and your family, Theo.
I didn't know tonsillectomies were that major in an adult
Apparently after about age 21, we do not tolerate pain in that area of the mouth as well as kids do. My ENT told me that adults have died from that surgery and the recovery period is very long.
My recovery, in my mid-20s, was brutal. And before I was released, they gave me morphine which did nothing for the pain. That was a few months of total hell. Upside, I finally got better and haven't had strep since.
But, wow, do I regret successfully talking my parents out of the surgery when I was a kid. Would have been easier healing and I wouldn't have dealt with strep nearly every month for years either.