Oh yeah.
Last 2nd day of 2024 liao!
Let me blog abt this, likely the most eventful event of this yr liao. Haha.
Went for cysts and fibroid removal!
It all started when I 屁股痒, topped up money to do extra health checks, one of which is the ovarian cancer check.
Indicator came back higher than normal (but not alarmingly high), so doc recommended me to do more detailed checks.
Since not alarmingly high and no other symptoms, I sorta heck it la.
But after that, had chat with a collegeue, and she was saying how ovarian cancer is a silent killer etc...
So... I kind of scared dao, and decided to give my dear old gynae a visit.
And yes, scanned n saw the cysts and fibroids. When I gave birth to raythorous, I was cleared. Somehow in these 7yrs, they grew, and grew to quite a big size.
So gynae told me must remove. That was in Aug.
But i was still procrastinating.... And was hoping to tu till after cny... Lol.
And really don't know was it 心理作用, my abdominal seemed to start hurting.. So when I followed up with him in Nov, he told me better dont tu liao, and to do it ASAP.
And the op has to be done 5days b4 or 5days after menses. So it really wasn't easy to fix a day..
乔来乔去, finally settled on 14dec, after the vacations. Then still got more hiccups after that, like having slight fever, and signs of next menses coming.. But heng, in the end, 顺利done on 14dec. haha.
The revamped TMC
In the temp ward waiting for pre op prep like checking of vitals, clearing of poop, changing to gown etc... And from here, will be wheeled via bed to another waiting area.
When the nurse wheeled the bed with me laying on it, what I saw from my angle, were just like what drama showed. Could see the face of the nurse who was wheeling the bed, and the lights passing above me.
Passed thru the babies room, saw the xmas tree and decor, 我忍不住哭了.
Mama drama.
不是怕,只是很难过为什么不可以好好的..... 也担心术后会不会醒不过来... Drama again.
Finally reached the waiting area. And the nurse told me try not to cry, in case nose blocked and complicate the surgery. Duh.
Then I sat up on the bed, instead of laying down. Somehow felt more secure sitting up. Lol. In btw many nurses came to check on me.
Then finally I was wheeled to the outside of the operating theatre. And it was there that I saw my surgeon - Dr Wong Wai Loong - for the first time. Ya, my gynae is not my surgeon, cuz such op is not his speciality. So he recommended Dr Wong to help me instead. And till now, i only saw half of Dr Wong's face, cuz he wore a mask. But from websites, he looked like an asian Elon Musk. Hahahaha.
And then, finally, to the operating theatre.
还真的长得和戏里一样.
Dr Wong was there. My gynae Dr Lim was there. And then came the anaesthesia doc.
And b4 I knew, I KO liao. The last timing i saw was close to 1.30pm, which was the scheduled time. 真准时!
I honestly tot I would wake up nicely in the ward when the GA eventually wore off. But no leh. St after the op, the anaesthesia doc woke me up liao. Still in the operating theatre. Ha.
When woke up, 思路是清晰的, 也听得到. But there was a brief mmt of breathing difficulty, like I couldn't breath, and i couldn't communicate to them that I couldn't breath. The feeling was so scary la. Took a while, b4 i could breath properly again. Then gynae was there assuring me that everything went well.
Then 我就被人搬来搬去.. And finally back to the ward. Time was around 4.30pm liao.
Yeah. Tired for the rest of the day. B4 the op, I was still naive enough to think that I would be ok by 9pm and could eat dinner and watch the sheng siong show.
But no, no mood for anything.
Did not get to sleep well the whole night also. Every hr also got pple coming in to check. Check pressure la, give meds la, change pad la, give injection la... Etc etc.... And the drip machine and leg compressor machine kept having sound.... Cannot sleep well at all.
After op, no food.
Next day, also not much appetite, but could start walking. Drip and urine bag, all removed. Yay! Having that needle poked at the hand was really irritating... So yay!
2nd night also did not sleep well. 睡不着... So i really did feel 几伤... 吃不好, 睡不好的. And it was then that I decided to order the post surgery meals to 好好补一下..
First wk was still quite bad. Can only walk slowly and easily tired. Now 2wks down, 好很多, though still easily tired and sian. Haha. Half of the given hospitalisation leave passed liao. Siann. Why so fast....
Also good that now is the sch hols period. I can rest in peace, need not worry abt the boys' school stuff. Phew.
And honestly, when one is unwell, 真的很容易depress. 我的算是很小case, and i had ample time for 心里准备, yet, 我还是会感到难过... Like why......
So, I really cannot imagine if it was a major or sudden illness...
Ok, choi choi choi.
会好好的OK!
Be strong, recover well, jiayou!