November 29, 2009
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Double Whammy
Man it hurts. Get surgery on one hernia, get the second treated for free. Yea great deal doc. Cheers mucker. Lots of drugs, 2 big slits down my legs and some mesh inserted in to my groin to make sure my insides don't fall out any more. Then sewn back up for good measure. The doc reckons I will be able to run again in a week. He is - of course - known for his enjoyment of recreational drugs, and I think it is fair to say he had just come off a particularly long night on the weed.
Nice huh? Don't you want some just like it? I went in to hospital on Thursday, got all the stuff checked, got to the same point as last time which was the blood tests were all fine but then the health card did not work, so i called up the office, told them to sort it out yesterday and 5 minutes later the card was working just fine, and then dropped off the stuff in my room before leaving hospital and heading to Cafe India for dinner. A couple of beers and a great meal later, back in the car, out to Linkou, and in to hospital.
The doc came to talk with me the following morning, told me what he was going to do - I was not worried! No big deal for me. He reckoned there may only be one hernia, on the left, and I said it was weird because all the pain was on my right, and he said he would look and judge it when he started surgery.
I was taken down - Claire came with me the whole way... as this was her turf, she knew pretty much all the people in the hospital, I reckon! Then in to the op room, the anaesthetist prepping up. The usual question came - how long til I am asleep. A minute he said. Bollocks I said. 45 seconds tops.... I felt it, fought it for all of a millisecond, and off I went. When I woke up, I was drugged up so felt no pain.
But now those drugs have worn off, and ouch!
And back to work tomorrow! YAY!
