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Speaker 2: All right, so news in my house and my eighteen
Speaker 2: year old she left home in January. She's been at university. Now,
Speaker 2: I don't know whether it's the lack of hygiene at university.
Speaker 2: She's she's got quite ill with this very severe tonslighters.
Speaker 2: So we took her the GP and said, look, it
Speaker 2: might be the ton slides. You can get actually very
Speaker 2: very ill with you and you know with tom sliders.
Speaker 2: She said, look, we might as well take your daughter's
Speaker 2: tonsils out, right, So next Tuesday, my eighteen year old
Speaker 2: daughters having her tonsils removed. Now in the eighties, probably
Speaker 2: the same here you Patsy. They ripped those tonsils out
Speaker 2: for fun.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, primary school. I remember kids in the center.
Speaker 3: It's like you gotta saw scratchy throats, get them out.
Speaker 2: That's it. We used to beg not to go to
Speaker 2: the GP. It was like the kiddie catcher and chitty
Speaker 2: chitty bang bang. He's dangling children's tonsils. I'm mine ripped out.
Speaker 4: Scratch your throat.
Speaker 2: Next thing you know, they've got the old gas mask on.
Speaker 1: Come backwards.
Speaker 4: I'll just take a lozenge. Please don't do we need
Speaker 4: the tonsils. I don't know what do they do.
Speaker 2: I don't know what they're thore is it? Are the
Speaker 2: tonsils like dust flaps? Yeah, you know so as muck
Speaker 2: impurities come into the the airways. Is part of a
Speaker 2: filtration system.
Speaker 5: I believe. So that's what my mom said.
Speaker 2: It's sort of have you got tonsils?
Speaker 6: Yeah?
Speaker 5: You know what. I should have had them out because
Speaker 5: I still occasionally get tonsils.
Speaker 3: Never had a sore throat since Yeah, see this is
Speaker 3: the agony.
Speaker 5: Yeah, not a nice procedure.
Speaker 2: The speedball things at the back of your throat, those
Speaker 2: tonsils side.
Speaker 3: Wait, the speedball. You should still have the speedball. That's
Speaker 3: not the tons that's tonsils, isn't it?
Speaker 4: Open your mouth?
Speaker 2: You should say, what's the speedball?
Speaker 4: Then the speedball? Is it the.
Speaker 2: Where we go? It's a different part of the body
Speaker 2: at the end. Do you mean like that?
Speaker 5: It looks like a boxing bed speedball?
Speaker 4: What is that?
Speaker 2: The tonsils are like two sort of danglis. No, the testicles.
Speaker 4: Yes, yes, it is the punching bag.
Speaker 5: Yeah, no, tonsils are There's one on the left and
Speaker 5: one on the right. It's further away from the punching bag, isn't.
Speaker 3: It from top of the top of the throat or
Speaker 3: bottom of the.
Speaker 5: Throat, bottom mount they I thought they were bottom.
Speaker 2: I mean I have been now to that ege year
Speaker 2: old when she started, I went, yeah, they're the dust flaps.
Speaker 2: So let's get the dust flaps out. Get one of
Speaker 2: those dust flaps, just let that dust get in there. Yeah.
Speaker 2: She's going to be off for like two weeks I
Speaker 2: think from UNI. So she thought she'd escaped home. She's
Speaker 2: going to come back and recover. It's like misery, all right,
Speaker 2: So can anyone call us up right now? We clearly
Speaker 2: don't know what the speed bag is? The what's it called? Ulna?
Speaker 4: The U.
Speaker 2: A special like voice Free with sailor.
Speaker 5: Kurstler.
Speaker 2: What are the tomsaws? Can anyone help us? Please?
Speaker 7: They?
Speaker 2: And are they part of three things? Now? Speed balls?
Speaker 3: And then the thing on the left and right. Well
Speaker 3: you should only have one speedball. If you're multiple of those,
Speaker 3: that's that's looking weird.
Speaker 2: Okay.
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Speaker 2: What do you know about tonsaws? My eight? You know,
Speaker 2: old daughter Ruby has got hers removed next Tuesday and
Speaker 2: had mine ripped out, as a lot of kids did
Speaker 2: when they were younger. In the eighties, they used to
Speaker 2: just take them out for fun. I don't know where
Speaker 2: they were getting cash kick back some of these surgeons.
Speaker 4: Like when you turned old cans and get ten cents
Speaker 4: per ca.
Speaker 2: I don't know anyone who got out the eighties with
Speaker 2: the tonsaws and the other thing I'd removed as well.
Speaker 2: They took those out of someone called the adenoids.
Speaker 5: Yes, yes, Audrey Nellie had to have those out.
Speaker 4: Where are they?
Speaker 5: They're in the ears, aren't they?
Speaker 2: Yeah, well they going and rubberts. You go out the
Speaker 2: back of my throat at the back here, let's take
Speaker 2: a quick sharp turning those out. All right, So who
Speaker 2: can tell us anything about tonsils? Julie?
Speaker 8: Come morning, Good morning, How are you?
Speaker 2: I'm good, Julie. Now I understand we should definitely talk
Speaker 2: to you. You're a midwife.
Speaker 8: No, I'm not a midwife. I am a nurse though.
Speaker 2: Oh your nurse. How great you know about this? What
Speaker 2: can you tell us about the three things at the
Speaker 2: back of our throats?
Speaker 8: Well, you annoys, they're actually up your nose, so I'd
Speaker 8: be worried if they're in your throat your usula, which
Speaker 8: is that your punching bag? I think you're referring to
Speaker 8: it a medical term. Yeah, it's a medical term. Is
Speaker 8: just a piece of soft tissue that stops when you swallow.
Speaker 8: Stop your food going up your nose.
Speaker 4: Basically, I mean, how's the food going to go defy
Speaker 4: gravity and go up the back of there?
Speaker 2: Wouldn't it be to stop it going down the air?
Speaker 8: Have you never laughed enough that your water comes out
Speaker 8: your nose and things like that?
Speaker 4: Walking on this show.
Speaker 2: On an old shown.
Speaker 8: Your tonsils are just part of your lymphatic system, so
Speaker 8: you basically it's your body system that filters all, you know,
Speaker 8: infections and all the stuff that you don't need. And
Speaker 8: it just the batually three sets of tonsles, but the
Speaker 8: ones at the back of your throat are just a
Speaker 8: sort of like a holding area I guess for the
Speaker 8: infection where then it's attacked.
Speaker 2: Outside that the balances go, whoa are you in? Bacteria
Speaker 2: ain't coming on the list.
Speaker 8: And then you're true if it's the bacterial one, that's
Speaker 8: why you get passed on your tonsls, where the ones
Speaker 8: where you don't get passed on your tonsils is generally
Speaker 8: a virus, so you don't need anybody.
Speaker 2: She's got puss on her tonsils, and I just presume
Speaker 2: that was university life after six weeks. I'm not worry
Speaker 2: another world coming down for eighteen years keeping puss off
Speaker 2: them tonsils.
Speaker 8: Well, some started university in America and got tonsil artists
Speaker 8: about six times in a row. I don't want to
Speaker 8: know why. I think a glandular f So.
Speaker 7: So when you.
Speaker 3: Don't have tonsils duly and you don't have that bouncer
Speaker 3: protecting from bad backcateria, you're just letting anybody into the bar.
Speaker 8: No, because you've got three sets, as I said. And also,
Speaker 8: your lymphatic system is not just.
Speaker 2: Your tonsils, Jack, It's so much more. The lymphatic drain
Speaker 2: is system.
Speaker 8: You know, you know your lymphins. When you get a
Speaker 8: virus or a cold.
Speaker 2: You set.
Speaker 4: So where are your other tonsils?
Speaker 8: So further down.
Speaker 4: Like three sets of bouncers, Yeah, you only.
Speaker 8: See what you can only see one set.
Speaker 2: That's like John Wick. You don't want to meet him. Guys,
Speaker 2: we do a really good work for science here. First
Speaker 2: I listened to Monash University's medical debarment.
Speaker 8: No no, no, no, that's a very rudimentary and that's
Speaker 8: my understanding it of I'm an a d nurse, so
Speaker 8: I know a little bit about a lot, so not
Speaker 8: a lot about a little so.
Speaker 4: Very detailed to us, Julie.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so you work in the emergency departments, I do.
Speaker 2: Did you get what that ED stood for? Yeah?
Speaker 4: I knew that was an emergency.
Speaker 2: Department. That was a shout out to ED.
Speaker 4: I was about to say thank you for the work.
Speaker 2: Yeah, well what we're waiting for?
Speaker 4: I was just waiting for you.
Speaker 2: Ready, well fill the gaps, Judy, thank you very much,
Speaker 2: she called me pleasure.
Speaker 4: Thank you for all the work you and your colleagues.
Speaker 2: There we go, all right, Judy, let's go to Alex. Alex,
Speaker 2: what can you tell us about tonsils?
Speaker 6: Well, I had mine taken out when I was ten.
Speaker 6: I've got a twin sister who had tons for lighters,
Speaker 6: and so they did a two for one.
Speaker 2: Can they do that?
Speaker 7: Yeah?
Speaker 6: I don't know.
Speaker 4: So you didn't even have tonis yourself?
Speaker 6: No, no, no, no, they just got him out at
Speaker 6: the same time.
Speaker 7: And that was when I was ten, and like a
Speaker 7: family discount and going listen, Christian, if there's any medical
Speaker 7: procedure you need whilst she aughts in, we can have
Speaker 7: a look at what's going on with you and take
Speaker 7: something out of a sex to me or anything.
Speaker 2: Really, it's two for Tuesday. We call it this hospital
Speaker 2: pretty much.
Speaker 6: But then, yeah, last year I had a sore throat
Speaker 6: and noticed a lump at the back of my throat,
Speaker 6: went to the doctor, ended up in surgery and it
Speaker 6: was tonsal tissue. So my tonsils were trying to grow back.
Speaker 2: They can grow back.
Speaker 6: Yeah, apparently it's not that common, but yeah, they can
Speaker 6: grow back.
Speaker 2: Is it like when they chopped down a tree? Nor
Speaker 2: would they coat the root? Don't they to stop it regrowing?
Speaker 2: They obviously didn't coat it. What have you got to do?
Speaker 6: I think they didn't dig far enough there. I don't know.
Speaker 2: Well, they're rushing to insist that.
Speaker 6: Growing up, my grandmother always told us that hers grew back,
Speaker 6: So I wonder if it's genetics.
Speaker 2: You've got those mutant jeans you hold from a whole
Speaker 2: family of crobacus.
Speaker 4: I'm actually rooting for them. I hope they do come there.
Speaker 2: That's incredible, Alex, that's a great call. Thank you very much.
Speaker 6: I'm sorry you have a good day well.
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