The day of my operation, I hardly slept the night before, and when I did it was interupted with my mind conjuring up visions of the forthcoming operation.
The operation was planned for the early morning, but yes I'm sure you guessed all operations in front of me were taking longer than expected and the hours ticked by into the aftermoon, a surgeon came to see me to apologise and discuss the proceedure of the operation. He said the operation could be carried out with a local anesthetic injected into my lumber region ! Well forget the brave soldier act I admitted I was a coward with out hesitation and asked if I could be knocked out? Thankfully he agreed that would be no problem. The hours dragged on and wasn't helping my anxiety ,people were being taken off to the ops room and returning semi concious. Eventually about 4 pm the trolly and porters came for me, by this time I was starving and thirsty going all day without food and drink.
On arrival at the ops room I was given my pre med and lumbar injection , laid on the trolley and wheeled into the ops room luckely by then I was feeling drowsy.
Well what can I say a walk in the park! what had I been worrying about I knew nothing till I woke up and was wheeled out of the ops room asking when they were going to start the operation !
I was taken back to the recovery room, a catheter had been refitted and was full of blood. My legs felt like they were laying on air cushions and Iasked the nurse to take them out from under me as they felt uncomfortable. She informed me that my legs were directly on the bed and it was the effect of the anesthetic I couldn't feel them still.
My first thought was for food it takes a lot to put me off my food and I was starving,a meal was arranged and within a about an hour after my op. I was heartly eating a full dinner with no post op problems.
I was taken off to the ward, it was to have been an outpatient op but due to it now being late evening I stayed overnight which turned into a number of days as it took a long period of time to be able to pass water without a catheter. Eventually after many days I was peeing like a 21 year old with no side effects from the operation. Some people I understand have complications after the Turps op, I was lucky I had a good surgeon.
The operation was planned for the early morning, but yes I'm sure you guessed all operations in front of me were taking longer than expected and the hours ticked by into the aftermoon, a surgeon came to see me to apologise and discuss the proceedure of the operation. He said the operation could be carried out with a local anesthetic injected into my lumber region ! Well forget the brave soldier act I admitted I was a coward with out hesitation and asked if I could be knocked out? Thankfully he agreed that would be no problem. The hours dragged on and wasn't helping my anxiety ,people were being taken off to the ops room and returning semi concious. Eventually about 4 pm the trolly and porters came for me, by this time I was starving and thirsty going all day without food and drink.
On arrival at the ops room I was given my pre med and lumbar injection , laid on the trolley and wheeled into the ops room luckely by then I was feeling drowsy.
Well what can I say a walk in the park! what had I been worrying about I knew nothing till I woke up and was wheeled out of the ops room asking when they were going to start the operation !
I was taken back to the recovery room, a catheter had been refitted and was full of blood. My legs felt like they were laying on air cushions and Iasked the nurse to take them out from under me as they felt uncomfortable. She informed me that my legs were directly on the bed and it was the effect of the anesthetic I couldn't feel them still.
My first thought was for food it takes a lot to put me off my food and I was starving,a meal was arranged and within a about an hour after my op. I was heartly eating a full dinner with no post op problems.
I was taken off to the ward, it was to have been an outpatient op but due to it now being late evening I stayed overnight which turned into a number of days as it took a long period of time to be able to pass water without a catheter. Eventually after many days I was peeing like a 21 year old with no side effects from the operation. Some people I understand have complications after the Turps op, I was lucky I had a good surgeon.
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