What transpired on Thurs 10 July

5.30am. Woke, and then left the house at 6.40 with my parents. The hospital had called me the night before to remind me that I had to fast from 12pm onwards, so I couldn't have breakfast.

Upon reaching, we went to Gleneagles's Admission counter, whereupon the lady asked us to go to the counter @ 7th floor, where the day-wards were since we had already done pre-admission the week before. After going through the admin stuff, I was taken to Ward 208 to wait for my turn. Shortly after I'd settled down, a nurse came in and taped my wrist with a band, helped me into e dressing gown and I had a nap til about 10.50am, when they came for me in a stretcher to bring me down to the operating theatre.

My parents were stopped at the doors, they allowed only my mum to go in with me, because she was the one who had signed the consent form for my op (since I'm under 21) ; and with a pat on my hand she went out. I was made to wait in a little room just outside the OT, because Dr Chen wasn't finished with the earlier patient yet. 11am stretched to 11.30am, and while I was waiting in darkness the nurse chatted with me briefly, then the Anesthesia Master injected me with a medicine that supposedly "helps to calm your nerves" o_0 according to him.

But calm my nerves it certainly did not. I was getting fidgety under the blankets, if a tad nervous about the decision I made to go through with it. Around 11.35am, they wheeled the previous patient out, and me in. While the nurse hooked me up to various contraptions, the AM injected a whole syringe of thick, milky liquid into the tube on my left hand. Immediately, a growing numbness and pain overwhelmed me and I went KO.

When next I woke, it was 1.05pm, and I had been in the recovery ward for an hour after the operation. The pain didn't register at first; I was preoccupied with calling my mum to let her know it was over. Once they wheeled me all the way back to the ward, I started feeling nauseous and dizzy. For the rest of the day, til 8pm when I was discharged from my ward, I was reduced to lying in bed, taking painkillers and napping through the haze that accompanied the nausea. The one bread that I ate in the evening (since the entire day) made me vomit whatever I had consumed.

At about 10.15pm, we were finally able to see Mr Chen at his clinic after waiting for 2 hours. The rest of the day through Sunday was spent resting, spacing out all my med, taking my meals etc .. in short nothing interesting. 3 days hospitalisation leave .. I'll be back to work on Thursday and hopefully better after everything. To those who asked after me, thanks a lot, and thanks Jaslin for visiting me while I was hospitalised (though I wasn't in any fit state to talk much).