surgery started at 9:00-9:15am... i was no nervous but did not show it so much.. b-g paid $15 for parking at the front entrance, no monthlies are allowed. went to A-125 to register... funny, they could not find my file anywhere but was upstairs already. b-g kept talking to me and getting me nervous as hell to the point that i snapped at him to stop the conversation... Went upstairs 5th floor, to get checked-in, vitals were taken. q&a followed, allergies, sick, operated before, etc... was asked to come back in 1/2 hr later, to get prep for surgery. the guy that was at the front desk was really nice... all the names are blurry to me now... an older lady helped my to get ready for the surgery, when i came 1/2 later... 2 to gowns, blue slippery things, and just kept my undies... all my closthes were put in a yellow bag and my sandals in a clear plastic bag...attached was a green tag with my stats, put it together with my over-night bag... i this point i was clueless if i was going to stay or not? i was in limbo... i was led to the outside of the OR by an orderly lady... i made small chat... told them that if they kill me that i was a organ donor so please keep me breathing so they could take from me what they can salvage... yes, im so optimistic, damn i was really nervous but now a days nothing is 100%!!! nothing! i waited for 45 min to and 1hr outside of the OR.. he was still operating on some one else... the same thing, i was told he was 33yo and was having his tonsils taken out too... i kept think that was the nurse's [she was the one at the pre-op clinic, she had told me that her boyf was getting the smae done but his were not that big, she was truly surprised!] boyfriend. Then a student came over name Stephanie, she was an exchanged student from Holland that was rotating with Dr. Sweet [his name describes him to the T, he also reminds me of Mr. Rogers].She stayed for awhile and kept chit-chatting myself more then she... i told her i was scared and said if i die bla bla, all that crap and more... then the nurse that helps Dr. Sweet came and i started chit-chat w/ her, too... she asked all the questions all over again... and i proceeded to tell her... common policy that many asked the same so i guess i won't change my answers... heee... Dr. Sweet came and talked to me, aksed me some questions and told me i was staying over night. met the anesthiologist Dr. Bandi [she made a joke saying the way to remember my name is that it sounds like BANDIT but with out the 'T,' i thought it was funny! because i still rmember her name, it worked!] waited another 5-10min until the OR was clean. i was wheeled in and i transfer myself to the OR table. where i met an assistant and another Dr.?? [do i remember no, i was like shitting bricks by this time!], Dr. Bandi was there to my right and near my head was Dr. Sweets nurse. Some guy was preparing the tools for Dr. Sweet. I got my IV put but they numbed my skin first before the rpick. they could not find vains in the back of my hand, the Dr had to help the assistant find a vien. i was so nervous, but once they put in the medz... they started to burn up my arm... they said it was normal... then i started to shake more like a freaken leaf... they thought i was cold but nope it was my nerves, they gave me something to relax... the last thing i heard was: 'this is to make you relax.' apparently i fell asleep crying, i guess from the nerves...
i don't remember anything... i was transferred to the recovery area... a really pretty nurse [that recognized b-g] was really sweet, she was so attentive to my pain, that when i said i hurt, she took out a needle and put meds into my IV it felt great!!! i felt i got top A+ treatment, very happy there... another nurse took over she was really, really nice too... dang, do IVs make you pee like crazy!! i got some stuff up my butt and in my IV... i was told that i came out of the surgery in a really bad shape: crying, pulling my neck, saying it was really painful, and to help me... etc... i was not taking the pain easily. i was out of it, really bad... as it wasn't just the tonils they took out but they cut my first pillars of my pallet and put in some stitches! MAJOR pain!!!
Dr. Sweet, Dr. Bandi and Natalie came to see me. then ear, nose, throat resident Dr. Mohamed Al Eisa was called because i could not swallow my own saliva. then it was recommended that the ICU resident come, which she did. i put my best foot forward and pretended it was not so bad [came to regret it later!] and that i didn't want to go to ICU... plus, no tv there to like entertain me, no freaken way!! so instead they gave me nebulized epinephrine adreneline, [constrict the blood vessels in my throat] which made me feel way better... but i was slow to recover usually it takes 2hrs but for me it took 6hrs (10am to 4pm), i knew it cuz i am slow at freaken healing... so it was decided that i go upstairs to 9SW. i met this really nice blonde nurse that wanted them to keep me for another 2hrs but i encourage them that i was feeling ok and that i could go now... i just wanted to watch tv but none was to be had until 8:45pm, which sucked!!! Dr. Bandi was really pre-occupied that is why they send for all the docs to come and see me... i apperntly i was looking green along the gills so better safe then sorry... next to me was this gentleman name Mr. Blake, he had a really huge belly. they were taking x-rays of it to see what he had. the assistant to the radiologist covered with the protective gear they have... [we bump into the readiologist when i was leaving the hospital and said to her i remember her and reminded her where i had seen her and she me... aaahhh it was fun! don't know her name but her face i won't forget or what she was wearing, heee... her greens were totally wrinkled and was wearing khaki shorts!].
b-g was allowed to stay with me in the recovery room, but because he was a staff he could, i was happy for that. b-g went up with me to the floor to get settled in but i started to realize my mistake once i got on the floor, the nurse rebbeca, the gernie lady, and a the orderly lady were all really not that nice...
after b-g left i went to see the toilet... dang, IVs... got 2 up my butt, one which burned and the other was tylenol...
was really in pain so i called the nurse [i wish i remembered her name cuz she freaken said NO to pain medz and even though Dr. Sweet had written that i could get IV medz they did not want me to have any! i found that later when b-g came! she even had the odasity to mark she gave me codine, which she didn't at around 6:10pm or something like that]. i cried for 2hrs as b-g was late he came around 8:45pm instead of 6:45pm, so did the tv guy $8 and 2$ tip... b-g came late, he was researching for his rounds talk on Thurs. in the auditorium of the Children's... he's going to be talking with a crowd 30 physicians and 2 or 3 of his directors of the general and the Childrens!!! so his really nervous!!!
was really in pain when he came and i told him all about it... he discussed it with the nurse [this was another nurse an elderly chinese lady shich kept pushing me to drink and have codine by mouth which i could not!! it hurt too much!] b-g said he wanted to speak to the resident incharged it was Dr. M. Al Eisa, which the ball started to roll... and got a shot of morphine [it kinda burn going in and took 20min to work] prescribed every 3hrs if i wanted it! when it was in my system and i was dopped up i could manage to drink a bit and have some ice chips... i felt better... b-g left at 10:45pm and i went on to watch some tv... but the nurses were sopushie to get me to drink while i was in so much pain... fucken' women!!! this is my thing, everyone has different levels of pain management mine is pretty low... i cannot hold my pain no freaken way!! when i hurt i want something for my pain!!! just wait, during registration they asked me if i could signed a paper to allow the hospital to call me back about my feedback on how i was treated, oh just wait... plus i will be sending a written letter to the nurse co-ordinator [Patricia Meridith] explaining what happened at the time of my stay. that i didn't even have the proper papers to tell me what to do, who to call if any problems, that they didn't even make me an appointment to be followed up they told me to call...
tryied to fall asleep around midnight, i did wake up many times during the night i was a bit uncomfortable... my vitals were taken, my meds for inflamation were given through the IV and i ask for some liquid codine to take [by this time it was a different nurse a black chubby lady].
i woke at 4:45 am and started to watch tv... got a new IV put in the person who did it was such a biatch, bumbling to herself and dropping the IV sack and just being pure miserable... she even left huge bubbles in my IV... i was scared that i asked to be taken of as soon as the doc said yes... freaken people no wonder Canada has the 2nd highest mortality rate is in the field of medecine, the first is Cancer...
the ENT resident Dr. Mohamed AL Aise came at 7:30am asking if i wanted to go home, how i was feeling and asked me to talk more and exercise my muscles... bla bla... yeah be in my condition and then tell me to talk ass... i told him that the nurses were not giving me nothing but tylenol for pain... he just nodded and that alteast i was going home and i said yeah, ALIVE! sheesh... but he was a bit nice cuz b-g gave him a talk yesterday... heee... i love it when b-g gets all manly and powery, it just makes me feel so special, all warm and fuzzy inside!! he would prescribe the medz for pain & inflamation!
Dr. Sweet came around 7:45am and asked almost the same questions but also asked what program i was watching: 'shaolin ???' cartoon on fox... i said to him 'still a child at heart!' he just laughed... he said i will see him in 2 days at his office... also, asked him the names of nurses in the recuperation room. he didn't know. so, i said i would pass by [which i did not but will be sending them something! they were so nice to me, i know its their job but they were really tentive to my every needs and pains!]. and i also told him that he's also in my thoughts, i didn't forget about him... 10 min later Natalie [Holland transfer student] came and i talk to her for awhile and told her what was upsetting me.. she said i looked better, she nodded and listen... and said bye... by 9:30 am she had left and the new nurse min-tou and her ass. nurse Ashley came to take my vitals and asked them to take my IV out and to tell me when the doc prescribe my medz to tell me cuz i want to be discharged! ASAP!!
at 10am i got my IV taken out so much blood came out of it, ashley helped me, as i took it out, it was a tiny plastic tube not a needle as i thought. as they saw that i had a bit of jello and water with ice chips... asked for more codine got 15cc but it did not easy my pain at all... i asked for more and why they were being stingy with the medz... i could not get any until the nurse came back from break! i was stuck with the Ashley girl!! i told her it's not her is just i cannot take pain!! she said she could not do anything and that i had to wait for the nurse to comeback... so i did and asked her...they had given me a concentrated dose but i told her that it wasn't working and that i couldn't take any fluids due to the pain! but she couldn't give me more so i left it like that...
i called b-gand asked him to come and get me... called Steph, she was happy to hear from me.. called Mondo and said i was ok in his answer machine and to call me... which he did later but i was so dopped up and had been talking to Steph for awhile i was sure i would be in pain once the morphine was gone out of my system. said to put it on an email of blog it for him to know how it all went...
when i came into the room it was a 4 bed room, there was only 1 person on bed #4 a lady who had
belly-surgery, gastro bypass surgery, she was pretty heavy... b-g recognized the physician that came to see her... that is how we found out!
then bed #3 was filled up in the evening a very pretty Hetian lady, thought at first to be too snobby but not really she was probably very serious due to her surgery, not known?
and in themorning bed #2 was filled by and older lady who was going to hve galblatter stone surgery. but she first went to get her colon looked upon, that is what she said and came back really drowsy [more like out of it!]. her surgery will be later on the day... some one came to visit and keep her company! she felt a bit nauseas...
got discharged around 11 am and i was of to my home... aaahhh, home... went to get meds and b-g percribed me MORPHINE [it's my hero, as you can see i'm dopped up!!! aaahhh, no pain!], it's my new love!! i feel nothing with it! love it!

on my notepad:

as i watch tv here on my bed... i glanced at musiqueplus,

minnie & roxie wear. that's what caught my eye...

gas prices are high as hell, due to the demand!!! Canada prairie rivers are overflooding! file sharing in Canada will be illegal... ex. Cold Play's new CDs are not allowed to be copied at all, but how can they stop it, i find ittoo be a little too late for this law...