SPRING!Balmy weather, blue skies, "T and A's"! sighs the pediatric nurse. For her the "T and A" is a true harbinger of the season-as inevitable as the budding of the trees. Tonsillectomy is considered a minor surgical procedure and it is never an emergency operation. Why then should there be any cause for concern about it? Let us consider the young child-the pre-schooler, generally-his fears, his memory, his questions. He is afraid of the unknown. He fears separation from his mother for he is still a pretty dependent individual. If the adults around him are apprehensive, he senses their feelings and is afraid, too. He needs understanding, reassurance, and an acceptance of his fears as being very real. Some of us may have the mistaken idea that since the child is small he will