Saturday, 30 August 2008
Hello everyone, I'm back!
After 10 days in hospital, I was finally discharged yesterday.
Phew, what an experience. Here's how it went:
20 August: Admitted into the hospital.
21 August: D-Day! Woke up at 6am to bathe. Anxiety lvl highest at this point. Then at 7am the bed trolley came and I was transported into the operating threatre department. After final confirmation of my details and particulars, I was wheeled into the op theatre. They transfered me onto the operating bed and there I was, wondering of what will happen. Looked at the clock. 8am. Then the doctors started putting in IV plugs into my hands. Well, usually it's not that painful considering that I have been poked many times during chemo, but this time it hurts coz the the plugs were large ones. Inject local anathesia also no use, can feel the pain. Den they insert sth into my neck. And more plugs into my other hand. I was like, "omg, can you just put general anathesia into my bloodstream now?!", and soon they did.
A few seconds after being informed that they had administered it on me, I went to Lalaland. Zzz.....................................
22 August: The first thing I saw when I woke up was the clock in front of me. The time was 8. But I was in a different location and I heard the rough noises of nurses and doctors. I was suspecting I had slept for 24 hrs straight and I soon continued sleeping again. But the breathing tube was damn irritating, and soon I keep waking up again, with the instinct to remove the tube from my mouth LOL. Fully woke up around evening time when they FINALLY remove that annoying tube and my family and relatives came in by pairs to have a look at me. I glanced at my body and saw so many tubes inserted anywhere and everywhere. My voice was gone thanks to that tube.
Pain was tolerable as I was on morphine.
I confirmed with my parents on the fact that I had slept for 24 hrs! Den the shocking truth came out: THE OPERATION LASTED FOR 12 HRS. Rmb in my previous blogpost about the risks of the op? It happened, alright! The major vein got cut a little causing small blood veins near the heart to burst. Den I lost a lot of blood in the process. But luckily, they managed to patch the veins up and resumed the operation. Thank God, I survived.
23 August: Taken off from morphine, and the regular painkillers start coming in. Stated on some mini exercises to get my breathing back to normal and my body to move.
Pain was notcable, but strangely it was not that painful at the surgical site. IT WAS MY ACHING BODY THAT HURTED MORE LOL, AND THIS WOULD APPLY FOR THE REST OF MY STAY.
24 August: BB ICU, Hello general ward. so i recuperated slowly over the next few days.
26 August: The docs came in and say the chest tubes can be finally removed today, but they found my heartbeat rate to be faster than normal ever since the surgery. So they send me for a CT scan of the heart. I was like "NOOOOOOOOO, I WANTED TO GO HOME EARLY"
28 August: Ok heart no problem. Lucky. It appears that I was dehydrated, that's why my heart beat very fast. So they decided to take out the chest tubes. Each tube has a diameter of a 5 cent coin. So imagine 3 tubes. Sticking out from an area near my stomach, just below the nice scar I have now(oh yeah btw they glued it back no wonder not so pain). Pulling out these chest tubes was the most painful incident that ever happened in my life. Not only is it painful, you can actually feel sth like going through your body parts.Anyways, they spammed gauzes, secure them with tapes, den wrap the whole thing with 3 pressure bandages. So now I got a big patch of bandage on my stomach which I can only remove on monday. And now having some difficulty standing straight cos of that.
29 August: Discharged!
So finally this surgery episode is over. will not be able to do sports for 4 months and lift heavy stuff. can only sleep straight for the next few weeks. and now v hard to get out of bed. and a bit of pain sometimes, but tolerable though.
but still dunno whether further treatment is needed. pathology results are not out yet, so dunno whether the extracted tumour is benign or maglinant. Now praying that it is benign, so that it will be finally over.
what an experience it has been.
thanks everyone for their care and concern!
and thank you God for keeping me safe. ¶ 16:21
After 10 days in hospital, I was finally discharged yesterday.
Phew, what an experience. Here's how it went:
20 August: Admitted into the hospital.
21 August: D-Day! Woke up at 6am to bathe. Anxiety lvl highest at this point. Then at 7am the bed trolley came and I was transported into the operating threatre department. After final confirmation of my details and particulars, I was wheeled into the op theatre. They transfered me onto the operating bed and there I was, wondering of what will happen. Looked at the clock. 8am. Then the doctors started putting in IV plugs into my hands. Well, usually it's not that painful considering that I have been poked many times during chemo, but this time it hurts coz the the plugs were large ones. Inject local anathesia also no use, can feel the pain. Den they insert sth into my neck. And more plugs into my other hand. I was like, "omg, can you just put general anathesia into my bloodstream now?!", and soon they did.
A few seconds after being informed that they had administered it on me, I went to Lalaland. Zzz.....................................
22 August: The first thing I saw when I woke up was the clock in front of me. The time was 8. But I was in a different location and I heard the rough noises of nurses and doctors. I was suspecting I had slept for 24 hrs straight and I soon continued sleeping again. But the breathing tube was damn irritating, and soon I keep waking up again, with the instinct to remove the tube from my mouth LOL. Fully woke up around evening time when they FINALLY remove that annoying tube and my family and relatives came in by pairs to have a look at me. I glanced at my body and saw so many tubes inserted anywhere and everywhere. My voice was gone thanks to that tube.
Pain was tolerable as I was on morphine.
I confirmed with my parents on the fact that I had slept for 24 hrs! Den the shocking truth came out: THE OPERATION LASTED FOR 12 HRS. Rmb in my previous blogpost about the risks of the op? It happened, alright! The major vein got cut a little causing small blood veins near the heart to burst. Den I lost a lot of blood in the process. But luckily, they managed to patch the veins up and resumed the operation. Thank God, I survived.
23 August: Taken off from morphine, and the regular painkillers start coming in. Stated on some mini exercises to get my breathing back to normal and my body to move.
Pain was notcable, but strangely it was not that painful at the surgical site. IT WAS MY ACHING BODY THAT HURTED MORE LOL, AND THIS WOULD APPLY FOR THE REST OF MY STAY.
24 August: BB ICU, Hello general ward. so i recuperated slowly over the next few days.
26 August: The docs came in and say the chest tubes can be finally removed today, but they found my heartbeat rate to be faster than normal ever since the surgery. So they send me for a CT scan of the heart. I was like "NOOOOOOOOO, I WANTED TO GO HOME EARLY"
28 August: Ok heart no problem. Lucky. It appears that I was dehydrated, that's why my heart beat very fast. So they decided to take out the chest tubes. Each tube has a diameter of a 5 cent coin. So imagine 3 tubes. Sticking out from an area near my stomach, just below the nice scar I have now(oh yeah btw they glued it back no wonder not so pain). Pulling out these chest tubes was the most painful incident that ever happened in my life. Not only is it painful, you can actually feel sth like going through your body parts.Anyways, they spammed gauzes, secure them with tapes, den wrap the whole thing with 3 pressure bandages. So now I got a big patch of bandage on my stomach which I can only remove on monday. And now having some difficulty standing straight cos of that.
29 August: Discharged!
So finally this surgery episode is over. will not be able to do sports for 4 months and lift heavy stuff. can only sleep straight for the next few weeks. and now v hard to get out of bed. and a bit of pain sometimes, but tolerable though.
but still dunno whether further treatment is needed. pathology results are not out yet, so dunno whether the extracted tumour is benign or maglinant. Now praying that it is benign, so that it will be finally over.
what an experience it has been.
thanks everyone for their care and concern!
and thank you God for keeping me safe. ¶ 16:21
