It started with a vague pain around my belly button at 9 pm and increased in intensity while finally localizing 12 hours later at the right lower quadrant . All I had to do was walk a few hundred meters from the house to the OPD of Yanhee Int'l Hospital and ask for the doctor to take a look at me. After doing an exam on me and taking one look at the results of the lab, I was made to sit on a wheelchair and was whisked from x-ray to EKG then up to my room at the 8th floor. In an hour I was on a stretcher being rolled into the OR and it was point of no return for me.
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| red shirt demonstrators |
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| song khran revelers |
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| easter cantata in church |
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| contemplating on the swift turn of events while wating for the orderly to take me to the operating room. |
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| the longest ride on earth. it was like i was traveling through a tunnel will the lights zooming above and it took like... forever. |
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Just a moment before i am wheeled into the OR a thai
nurse came to
my side and in her limited english announced " I want to
clean my hair!"
She proceeded to expose my very private parts and unceremoniously
got into the job of mowing the lawn.
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Point of no
return... no cameras inside the OR. I chose spinal
anesthesia over general
anesthesia just so I could experience how
it feels to be without the lower part
of my body.
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Jo Ann was
up this point only Yanhee has 40 operating
rooms and
it is here were the creation of God is reversed...
male to
female and female to male.
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Recovery
room for an hour I was touching my thighs and
it felt
like rubber to my fingers. I tried to feel
for my manhood
just to make sure they didnt do a
sex change on me.
There were three other
patients inside the room and our
monitors were
droning out a marathon of beeps.
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Ray's turn to
wheel me back to my room...
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...where he and
Reggie dump me on to my bed.
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Morphined!
6 hours of painless bliss while my uncatheterd
bladder
was filling up. When I woke up I had to ask for a
nurse to
get a catheter in and we got 800 ml of pee.
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First
visitors while I slept.. my precious granddaughter
and her
mom.
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she liked my
room... and started to mess things around.
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My wife,
watcher, financier, etc..
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Biggot the
clown... left his post at the main entrance
just to
make me laugh
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| JP, Nok and Francis Tion |
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Dr. Sumate
Hutpattanasilp - Internist
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Dr.
Wajarapong Yothathai - Surgeon
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| Nok and P' Ning |
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Rocky, Dan,
Lyn, Joan, Don, Penggot, Francis
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| Ikoi |
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| Mawi |
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| The wound |
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Arroz
caldo by Mama Joan Naypa It was my first soft
diet and I
was starved after being on NPO for 2 days.
Thanks
Mama Joan
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Downtown
Bangkok from my hospital window,
where all
the demonstrations were taking place
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Discharged!
The nursing staff on my floor. The nurse
who pulled
out my IV, after some time in thought blurted
out
"You are coming home now?" That was music to my
ears
albeit a little off key.
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