Klarinet Archive - Posting 000052.txt from 2006/09

From: GrabnerWG@-----.com
Subj: Re: [kl] soft palate air leak
Date: Thu, 07 Sep 2006 11:46:36 -0400

In a message dated 9/7/2006 8:54:50 A.M. Central Daylight Time,
slrolf@-----.net writes:
Sometimes, during the course of a tonsillectomy, tissue from the soft palate
is inadvertently removed. If enough is removed, then the nasopharynx won't
properly/fully close. This seems to have been more prevelant during the
surgical era that you describe
This happened to me, as a teenager. My doctor finally prevailed on my
parents to have my tonsils removed, when I was a senior in High School, since I had
persistent ear and throat infections. After the operation, when I played, I
had a noticeable, noisy air leak, that continued for several months. (It also
felt funny).

I remember being stopped in a scholarship audition, by one of the teachers,
who asked "What's that NOISE?". Very embarrassing to a 17 year old.

It eventually stopped by itself. Maybe my adenoids grew back?

Walter
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