Surgery Day!!!

So, Today was the big Day!! Let me break it down for you.

5:30 wake up and shower- the last shower for the next 4 days.... nice.

6:20 leave my house avev ma mere, and head to the hospital.

6:50 Arrive at Ottawa Hosp. Civic campus, attempt to pay for parking and then head in to check in to section D, 3rd floor- Surgercial Daycare Unit.

6:55- Check in, fill out obnoxious forms.

7-7:30 sit and wait in an uncomfortable chair, trying not to fall asleep!!!

7:30 get called in...change into the gowns... which are higly stylish. Luckily i got a robe, so my bum was NOT hanging out!! (thank god!)

7:35 say G'bye to my mommy- and hope I don't die! haha.

7:40 I am waiting in a room, full of hospital beds, where people are all over the place, also awaiting surgery- It kinda felt like I was in the army, in those rooms full of injured people. Except I wasn't shot in battle, and was not going to die.

8:20 I get wheeled in to the "Block" room. Where I got a nerve block done. This is a procedure where they use an ultra sound to find the artery and major nerve cells in the top up my leg, closer to my hip. They can pin-point it on the machine using the screen and then inject me with a needle. This needle more or less puts the nerves in my leg asleep. So my leg is dead weigh and useless for a day and a half, BUT it makes pain after surgey more tolerable. I was also given an I.V which was suprisingly the most painful part...OUCH.... they lie when they says its just a little prick...ya right!

9:00 am- I get wheeled in for surgey. My nurses knock the slipper socks of my feet and before I had a chance to ask them to put them back on- Out like a light.

11:20- I wake up in the recovery room- and I guess I forgot that I had surgery, because I tried to get up... i just saw the nurses run over to me and tel me to get back down, and explained that I just came out of surgery..haha. I explain to the nurse that I was in severe pain. She then asks..."So, on a scale of 1-10, what would u rate it... 10 being horrible?"..... What the eff did she think I meant?? When was "horrible" any better than severe??????

11:40 moved to a closer recovery room. At this point my feet are sooo cold, I thought they might fall off.... I asked for socks, but no luck! I was given some toast and water, and perkasets.... that was the best part of my day!!

12:3- I was a bit drowsy and kept asking every 10mins if I could go home. I then made them get my mom to inform her what was going on.

Finally, at 1:00 pm, i lie to them and tell them im not groggy, so I can get on these crutches and go home!!!... 1:30 I get a crutches lesson and 1:45pm I am out the door....


Longest day of my life.