Surgery Day!

25th July 2013 has finally arrived and it's time to fix my underbite yipee-ki-yay!!! Woke up exactly at 5.00am after receiving a wake up call from my friend whom will be accompanying me for admission (Thanks Sarah! Owe you a meal).

Registration went smoothly and once again I was on the receiving end of the needle for blood test (counted to a total of 8, had blood donation for this surgery a few days earlier and the nurses ran into some trouble, oh great!). Thank goodness I had companion to chat with as I would be completely silent 9 hours later. After donning the surgery gown, it was time to proceed up to the operation theatre. Said goodbye to my friend and sending messages to my mum and other friends to update them, after which I proceeded up and was being stretched to the operation theatre. A team of surgeons were there (along with Dr. Danny Tan) to greet me and were all prepared for the 7 hours long surgery. Once again I received the needle not once but twice (that made it a total of 10 times for the week) for IV drip and my pack of blood to be donated back to myself, the last moment I recalled was Dr. Tan saying "Everything will be fine" before getting passed out by the general anaesthesia.

I woke up at approximately 5pm and the first words I heard were "The surgery was a success", 9 hours have passed but I felt like only a few seconds have passed. There wasn't any pain, but the dizziness made me uncomfortable and nauseous, vomiting while my mouth was shut wouldn't be a pleasant experience so I tried my best not vomit and made myself as comfortable as I could. It took 30 minutes for my ward to be ready and by 5.45pm, I was on my bed. The first thing I wanted to do was for my hand-phone to be returned to be my side as I wanted to update everyone and inform them of my current ward. 

I had a few visitors for the night though I didn't had the energy to open my eyes nor speak due to the dizziness. First were my friends from secondary school followed with my mum and lastly my girlfriend along with her family and by 9pm the night was all to myself, the first thing that struck my mind was for this dizziness to fade.