First day at the hospital
Took a cab to the hospital about 8.45 a.m. The gynecologist who is going to operate on me came at about 10 a.m, he drew the blood samples for lab investigation and told the nurse to give me two packets of medicine for clearing the vowel. The nurse asked me to start fasting after taking the solutions meant to facilitate bowel movement.
A woman who had just gone through a mastectomy and chemotherapy came in at about 10.30 a.m. She looked alright, but was vomiting everything that went in. She slept off and on and we got to talk in between her sleeps. We also watched the soaps on the TV to kill time. Of course there is no home theater seating and sound system, we lied on the bed, watching the 14″ TV in the ward.
The anesthetist came in the late afternoon and asked a few questions. The gynecologist came in the same time, he told me that my surgery would be at about 6.00p.m, after another small surgery that he was going to do on the same day. Well, I was under the impression that I was the only patient scheduled on that day and the operation is at 4-5.00 p.m. Anyway, it didn’t bother me much at that time.
At 5.00 p.m, I would have been fasted for closed to 7 hours, the nurse started to put me on drips and my activities of the last one and half hours before I was wheeled into the operating theater were confined to the bathroom and the bed. :-)
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