for those about to rock...

This is it. The big day.

7:30am the 'bed' comes for me. This is it. I ask the nurse if I can wear underwear, she says no, I ask why, she says so we can do stuff down there. Confirm! They do feel you, not really, she says that it's easier to probe you :) ie put tubes there like maybe an enema or CBT (urine tube). So off I go to the slab. When I got there they say this piece of meat is too early to be cooked come back later. So back I go.

I get another hour of life. But at 8:30ish they came back for me. Gulp. This time it's for real. I get carted to the OT (operating theatre). It was at the end of the hall. There is no escape. I ask the nurse if I can still make a run for it. She said yeah there was still time :) . I hopped on to the slab, get a little juice via the IV then the gas. The gas was a little stuffy. I close my eyes trying not to fight the process, which was the last thing this coward wanted to do. I was trembling due to the cold. I can overhear (probably) a trainees saying 'poor thing'. I had 2 layers of trembling a low amplitude high frequency tremble and a low frequency high amplitude tremble. One of the trainees say 'peganglah' (I wasn't thinking underwear thing here :) and the other touched my shoulder. Probably wanted to see what a trembling splashing fish felt like. I was now a writhing fish about to be cooked. Then I hear someone say hello doctor and he proceeded to touch my head. Another person say that I as not sedated. Dang when will I get sedated.

Hurry up and sedate me damn it. He's gonna open my brain soon. I can hear T's voice and a nurse saying that there was no one waiting for me and that they contacted the wife and she was on the way. It didn't register in my mind, all I can think of was not being sedated although there was a tightness on the top of my head, I guess they magically shaved me. I think I can open my eyes. "Can he open his eyes?". So I open them. "He can open his eyes? Good. Sir where are you?". My wife says that I am in ICU, "I-C-U". So I look around and yes no surgical lights I guess I am in ICU. "ICU" I reply. "Good". A thought did cross my mind to jokingly say something else but I feared that they may send me back to the OR and remove something else :D. Dang what happened. One minute I'm in OT then in ICU. Didn't dream or skipped a thought. Amazing then it's back to lala land.

It's as if the surgery never happened.