” i’ll wheel you to the surgery room”
i laid down and stared at the ceiling, and as he wheeled me, my mom and friends tried to catch up from behind
the journey was about ten minutes, so for ten minutes, i was staring at the monotonous white ceiling with flickering lights, and occasionally catching glimpses of my mom
” your family can wait here, i’ll have to wheel you to the waiting room”
*waved goodbye and was wheeled into the waiting room*
waited for 10 minutes and a philipino man came by
” i’m your anesthetist” and i have to mark the knee with the injury, is it the right?”
“no, it’s the left”
ok, smile.
*another 5 minutes in the cold room*
“ok the room is ready, lets go”
and i was wheeled through this long corridor of nothing but white ceilings, then to another corridor that’s jam packed with surgical equipments, some of which were bloody *not kidding*
” then i arrived at the room, where the previous anesthetist was waiting”
i spent 10 minutes looking at the ceiling, the lights, the camera, and the anesthetist who just surf the net for random stuff, before my surgeon finally arrived.
” we have to wait for a while, the anesthetist is not here yet”
*but that phillipino guy who told me he was the anesthetist was sitting right there…. so apparently, he’s just an assisting nurse* -_-;
ten minutes later, after my body was shivering under the room temperature, the anesthetist arrived, opened a box, did a handful of putting syringes together and all, finally apologized and announce that we are officially starting
” this is going to make you feel giddy, then i have to inject your inner thigh, while you’re conscious, and it will hurt a little”
“okay”
*inject*
” why is it that i have to be conscious while you inject my inner thigh”
” well, it is better because !###$^#$!$#T$W%^$!#!@$#@%$^%$@%^%&^#$@#”
“i don’t understand”
” !@$#%#&^%*#@$%#@$%@$^@$@%@#$%”
next thing i know, i blacked out before he injected
and when i was awake, i saw the male nurse smiling at me
” hi are you feeling cold”
* i was shivering very badly, and was chattering my teeth*
” yeah???”
he pumped more hot air under my blanket.
mom popped by and asked if i was ok, i nodded and gave a faint smile, and told them to go away so they don’t have to watch me in my unglam state
” why is she developing rashes?” mom asked.
” er.. i don’t know..” male nurse said, and immediately called my surgeon.
” the surgeon said maybe it’s because of the hot air”
” we’ll see if it subsides, or i have to call the surgeon again”
*luckily it went off*
(30 minutes later)
woke up and saw mom standing in front of my ward.
“mom, go back and have some rest, i’ll see you tomorrow” i said in my drowsy state.
“ok see you”
.
.
3 hours later, i woke up.
with three people screaming around my ward…..
i was too disturbed, and went back to sleep
* nurse woke me up 3 times in two hours to change my ice pack, ask if i wanted food, or to change my icepack*
finally at 1am, i asked for minyi’s home-made shen yu soup, i finished the entire tub.
and “regurgitated” / puked it all on the floor
had to apologize again and again to the nurse.
and then asked if i could pee
and peed into this metal bowl thing.
and asked to pee again
until the uncle next door also wanted to pee
and then the funniest part came
“mii see, wa pun tio wa eh xiong kao liao”
*translation: nurse, i accidentally peed on my bandaged wound*
i laughed till i fell asleep.
significantly insignificant 
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