Post-Surgery

Well... I'm back at home. Had to change the dressing once already coz the blood soaked through my jeans. Would've created a great hoo-ha if I'd gone to school I can tell you...

Anyhow. Took a cab down to Mt. E Hospital just now since it was raining cats and dogs. Reached early so decided to drop by Mummy's office first in hopes that she'd escort me up to Uncle Abu's clinic later. Unfortunately she was being harrassed by some surgeon over the phone, so I had to go up all by my lonesome self. Luckily the nurse in the clinic was sort of a familiar face, just one I haven't seen in like 7 or 8 years. Could barely recognize Lilian. 5min later, Papa shows up (finally!!!) and Lilian talks him into giving me the first shots of local aneasthesia. The silly man was going to abandon me and go drink coffee in the doctors' lounge!! GAH!! Where's the justice I ask you??

So my own father pricks me in at least two places around the horrid abscess, which now looks like it's the size of an ugly purple eye-ball or something and declares that he's going to go drink coffee anyhow. GAH!! Of course, Uncle Abu steps in just then and he's got to stay coz Uncle Abu tells him to. HA!! Darling daughter and all, you see... Deprived him of coffee! Hurmph! I mean... Of course I'm edgy about it!! How often do you think I go around getting abscesses removed??? It's a minor surgery sure but STILL a surgery!! Egads!!! But Uncle Abu was nice. Kept reassuring me the whole time. Even kept asking me why I looked so worried. "No need lah!! Small thing only!!" Yeah right....

So he pokes me again in at least another two places with some more L.A. and then with a "Ready?", cuts open my abscess. Even he's confounded as to how come I've got such a huge abscess near my groin. But he agrees with Papa that it looks like a lymph node that got infected. But how in the first place??? No one knows. Not even me. So apparently there was a whole lot of pus and blood and he had to scrape a whole lot more out of the wound. Then he washes it out with saline and he and Lilian patch it up with a gauze dressing. Done. Very little pain, except the first few pokes with the needle. And I could feel him scraping. Very weird feeling.

So I got cut, scraped and patched up. Thanked everyone, made an appointment to see Uncle Abu again on Monday and went off into Guardian with Papa to get extra dressings and saline solution. Then the blood oozed through my jeans.

One ugly purple eyeball gone and still so much drama. Tch...