operation day was arranged on the 16th november monday because i didn't want to have it on friday the 13th..
monday 16th:
woke up at 10, went to office to pass my office phone to my sis in law, gave some last minute instructions, drove to hospital at 11. as soon as i got there, i was asked to register myself, bla bla bla, got to the room n changed into one of those hospital outfit which was exposing my ass..... i was told that my surgery would start at 1.30, much to my surprise as i thought it would be at 2... so i was mentallly pumping up myself... getting myself prepared for the op but then a nurse came n said ' sorry mr tan, we have to delay your op by an hour'.... thats because someone had to use the same OT to so some surgery on their internal bleeding stuff...
but anyways, when the time came, they asked me to sit on the bed so that they would wheel me down to the OT... as soon as i got to the OT, i was being introduce to my anesthesiologist... dr loy... who is a pretty funny guy.... he explained that he would need to put a drip thing on my left hand so that they would be able to introduce anti biotics or any other craps to my body without having to poke me all the time... so he did that... n he was able to pull one last minute joke n said '.. oh crap... i missed'.... i was not amused at the when he told me that but 2 seconds later... 'i'm joking'... yup.. thats what he said alright, n i replied with ' dude, i dont appreciated those kinda joke'....
so then the next thing we did was that he got into th actual OT (previously we were in the lobby of the OT)... it was freaking cold... like 18 degrees C... n we started with the epidural process... what i got was a CSE, combined spinal epidural which paralyses my lower body but still keeping me awake... i did ask to be put to sleep... full sleep, but he said post surgery would be hell and i would miss a lot of his funny and lame jokes which i may or may not appreciate... so i decided so stay awake (didn't regret it) during the surgery which ran for approx 3 hours.
1st hour was use to remove 2 tendons from my right hamstring muscle
2-3 was the actual surgery where the dr would drill some holes, put some tendons to replace the ACL, and also to remove some broken meniscus.
i thing i remember during the operation was hearing lots of phone calls to dr loy,.. ( i thought the OT was a phone free zone)... so i asked in the middle of the op...... can i bring my phone in so i can fb? dr loy looked at me he was like ???? one of those wtf moments i guess...
but anyways.. the surgery went well... checked out of the OT at 6.. n much to my surprise i was having an appetite of a lion.. i came out hungry n asking for food...
jen, mui kit (sis in law) and ju liang came over around 10.30 as they pick jen up straight from the airport to the hospital.
everything was fine until i had to pee, because of my lower body was numb and paralysed, i could feel my legs and the penis was not functioning AT ALL? i tried SO hard to pee... the feeling was like 'ok .. i can feel it going from the bladder ... then as soon as it got there.. the peeing sensation just left... gone... finito... i couldn't pee.... the nurse tried letting me hold some gloves filled with hot water and also turning on the toilet water to let me hear some running water to help encourage me pee... but i couldn't.... its so dissapointing.. like i've lost my man hood... accepting defeat and knowing i couldn't force it out... the only way was to stick a tube up the dick to the bladder and drain it all out... all 1.5liters came out straight away... the nurse was smiling as i think she's never seen so much being released all at the same time before...
a few friends came to visit.. warren was the first, followed by sam from church peter and helena... appreciated their presence very much as i was with jen most of the time..
today is the 19th, i've already started and done 2 sessions of physio and gonna be heading home soon.
for those who came to visit.. jen, mom, kai ma, mk, jl, warren peter n helena, sam n his friend... thanks a lot!
i think i'll be staying home for the next week or so,... work will have to wait..
