Tuesday, November 30, 2010

Scalpel please...

So it was the big day! Woke up before the sun rose, mum and J accompanied me to the hospital. Holding my belongings with tense emotion, and walked towards the reception of the hospital. Reported myself and paid for the deposit, then a guy led us to my ward. Got into the 6-bedded ward and changed my clothes to surgical dress, not sure how to call it. Anyway, nurse came in a while and help me to do pre-op; checked my BP, weight, body temperature, etc...

(A rolling surgical bed arrived in front of me), a staff said to me:"It's time! You've got to go!".
"Oh God! I'm going in there!", my mind said. I sat on the bed and lied down, after everything was ready, they pushed me towards the OR. Lying down on the bed, watching the light tubes passing above me, went a level down and I saw instruments which look like CT scan, then I know.....I was already in the surgical floor!

I was sent to a room, I tilted my head and saw 'OR5'. The next thing came to my eyes were 2 big surgical lights and few scrub nurses wearing mask. The anesthesiologist came and asked me a few questions about allergies then she explained how she would put me into sleep. First, she poke my hand with a blood transfusion needle, one scrub nurse gave me oxygen at the same time. Then I saw the anesthesiologist carried a pumped white colour 'drug' and started injecting it into my body through the transfusion needle. My surgeon came into the OR, the first thing he said was, "Okay! Find me some lump today!". Well, he did say that! I heard the nurses giggling, before I could hear them stop the giggles I was already knocked out!

Just a clicked! I was unconscious! Drugs............(shake my head)
By the time I heard voices was someone tapped on my shoulder and said:"Wake up, the surgery is done already.". Slowly I opened my eyes and see the surroundings, I felt extremely dizzy, hardly opened my eyes. I only heard conversations between nurses. It was like I felt asleep for only 5 mins, but it was actually one hour! The feeling was very interesting...hardly described too!

The operation was a success, no complication and everything is cleared from the breast. I was sent back to the ward and rest until the anesthetic drug went off. Surgeon came and checked my wound, he explained that lump was a fibroadenoma lump, if I'm not mistaken. I think I was conscious....I think!
There it was! I am totally lump-free!! Yeehah!

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