how to prepare for an operation

I have decided for sometime that I will go though an operation to save my left ovary from the endometrioma cyst destroying its normal tissues.

But when a terrible abdominal pain hit me last Tuesday that beads of perspiration were all-over my face and I couldn’t help crying, operation was not the first thing on my mind. My officemates Em and Danny already wanted to take me to the hospital but I said that I wasn’t ready. I had the guts to say it despite the pain :) For I just wasn’t ready :)

I have made up my mind to have the operation this November 22 and that the week prior to that will be used to prepare whatever I needed to.

Among my things to do was watch Harry Potter on its opening last November 16. I did that :) I also thought that before my operation, I would have a haircut :) Yes, it’s vain :)

So even if I was in pain last Tuesday, I went to Reyes Haircutters and had a haircut, a hot oil and eyebrows shaved :)

And on Wednesday, I filed for my leave of absence, made my excuse letters and paid my bills.

Then weekend was spent cleaning house and aquariums. But the funny thing was shopping :)

I asked my doctor last Thursday if I had to follow a certain diet. She said that my operation wouldn’t require it.

“Then, could I forego the hospital meals and eat fried chicken instead?

“Of course,” she said. But she reminded me that I’d be on soft diet the day before and day after the operation.

It’s okay with me, but I again asked her if I could eat champorado (chocolate-flavored rice porridge) instead of lugaw (rice porridge). The sad answer is No :( She said that they wouldn’t be able to tell if I were bleeding if I eat champorado or any food that is dark.

So I bought Original flavor Vita Quaker, Super Instant Nutritious Cereal, Sweet Corn Flavor Nesvita Cereal Milk Drink and Burst-O-Corn Soupy Snax :)

And for the time I could eat some things more crunchy, I bought Biscocho and Butter Scotch from Bacolod Chicken Inasal. I also have garlic-butter toast 

When I looked at what my mother bought for our stay at the hospital, I saw:

Sunflower crackers, Hon Hon Crackers, Milky Marie Biscuits, Rebisco Marie BiscuitsSky Flakes, Fita Crackers, Hapi House, Chocolate Chip Cookies.

I guess, I am like her more than I think :)


sayong