YFriday, April 20, 2007

You Don't Know Good Posture Until You've Had Your Spine Cut...

Yep... You don't know good posture until you've had your spine cut...
It's been a few days since I've been discharged from Mount E, feeling better than I did on Wednesday... This will be a long post so bear with me..

Monday, 16th April:
Went to Mount E with my dad for admissions at 11am. At the time, I had been fasting since 6am (you had to if you were undergoing general anaesthetic). Mount E wards was juz like I'd expected it to be: They had a Hotel Theme going on, with the concierges, the upholstery on the furnitures, etc... It feels more like a hotel than a hospital...
Was addmitted to ward 5A, bed 5504. Eventhough it was a 4-bedded room, I was the only patient in the room at the time. Lol! Kinda lucky that I got the "luxuries" of a single room at a cheaper price!
At 1.30pm, I had to change into the blue hospital gown.
I was then wheeled into the OR (op rm) on the 3rd floor. Had to wait awhile before the doctor and the anaethetist came inside and the first thing the anesthetist did was to insert the IV drip...
I got the "deja vu" feeling when the anaesthetist "drilled" open the vein in my left hand to place the drip.
Truth to be told, I wasn't drowsy yet, even when the anaesthetist placed the GA mask on my face. I was trying to stay awake... But damn! That GA was damn powerful, within like a few seconds I blacked out...
Only to wake with a dull pain on my back and extreme grogginess... Really, really groggy.. Everything seemed to have a greenish-hue when I opened my eyes...
Was wheeled back to my ward, when my doc came in and hand me this:




He told me that that was what's left of the damaged muscle disc which was obstructing my spinal nerve. It's not really clear in the pix, but most of the red liquid is juz buffer solution, plus abit of AB+ blood. The disc is actually the small whitish solid-like substances suspended in the liquid...

Being on IV drip, which has painkiller in it, I got drowsy. Had a light dinner of fish porridge and slept.
Only to wake up at 2am...
After having watched the remake of The Omen on DVD, I was damn shocked and afraid when I saw a bubble along the IV drip tube. (Coz in The Omen, the "devil-child's" mother was killed when a bubble was injected into the drip tube).
I paged for the nurse and everything was fixed.. Could see from her face thought that either I was that close to ending up the same fate as mentioned above OR that she was gonna get a lawsuit... LoL..

Tuesday 17th April:
The nurses removed the IV drip which meant I was less drowsy today...
Spent the earlier half of the day watching the VT Massacre unfold on CNN, terrible tragedy...
Had JH, YS and TL visit me around 4plus.. Talked with them about the OP and other stuff.. Thanx for your company guys!
Btw, they were all amazed at the hospital food I received (which was comparable to cuisine)...
When they were there, I was having a soft diet of minced meat, peas and mashed potatoes which were arranged like a steak dinner... (They HAD steak, but with all that painkillers, all your appetite would've gone away with the pain...)

My brothers and sister visited me that night. Again, they brought some food from home but I still hadn't had the appetite then... They went off after watching "Police & Thief" with me...
By that night, the room had 2 other patients so it wasn't as quiet as the previous night.
Whilst struggling to sleep, I couldn't help but thinking that I really wanna get my life going again... Now that the "nagging pain is gone...
I'll update more later... Need to rest now...

Twistin' at 1:57 pm

YFriday, April 13, 2007

Preparation Thoughts

3 more days before I'll be "gutted like a fish"...
Well, I'm more than looking forward to go back to school again...
Being confined in my house for the past weeks is really startin' to get on my nerves...
The only good thing is that I've managed to do some catching up with my workload...
Well, there's that...
But when you spent like most of the day having to just lie down so that **** pain would juz ease back, it kinda sux...
Plus, such "free time" made me really think hard bout next monday...
Paranoia and the likes...
Man, I juz wanna get it done and over with...
Juz wanna live!

Well... Juz found a downloadable copy of Mein Kampf from Wiki, I wonder what's the hype with this book over 60+ years ago... Other than the origins of its writer.. =S
Plus, saw this piece bout Second Life on Discovery...

Haix....

At least I got these 2 stuff to look thru.. For the time being...

Twistin' at 8:01 pm

YThursday, April 05, 2007

Going for my op on 16/4

Well, I made up my mind...

Simply, I can't stand the pain no more...
Haven't had e chance to go to school (let alone anywhere) since last week coz of the damn pain...
Anywayz, I had settled the op date on the 23/4 at first coz I thought of doing my common test...
But after wut my CT said, I pushed it back one week earlier on the 16/4..
Well, at least the 16/4 not to early, I'll get to spend a week in college..
You noe... Trying to make whatever ends meet, "soothe ruffled feathers" (if any)..

I mean, it's a major op...

Anything could happen...

Juz that the ONE thing I want to happen hopefully will happen:
GOOODBYE PAIN 4EVA!!!!!

Twistin' at 10:45 pm