The incision

[outsdr]

This picture was taken two days after the surgery. I stopped putting bandages on because the tape was really irritating my skin. That's a quarter stuck to my skin for scale.

There are four stitches, and yes, I really am that hairless and pasty. Except on my arms, where I seem to have huge amounts of hair growing in the areas most likely to be taped to for an IV.

Comments

[asia-sky.livejournal.com]

wow that is a dollar's worth of scar there!
I cant believe they only put 4 stitches in there.
Ive had surgeries and incisions before and that IS ragged and it is definitely going to leave a mark because it does not look like they took good care to close it neatly.
I wonder if anyone spoke to you about the tube down your throat. For me I woke from surgery on my arm to have two puncture wounds on my then swollen upper lip. I wanted to know why i was so injured from an operation on my arm and I was told I stopped breathing and crashed so they had to intubate me... my mother watched the code blue crash cart get rushed into the operating room.
You should have been introduced to the anesthesiologist before the surgery started. I was always introduced to my anesthesiologist before surgery, gives them a chance to ask you if you ever had breathing problems or bad reactions to other anesthesia experiences.
Man, when I joked about waking up not knowing what happened to you I had no idea it really was THAT bad of an experience of waking up not knowing what happened... not even knowing they were going to put you out. They never had you count backward or anything? I know that going out from an injection can be worse in the recovery than going out from gas.
All the best for the healing... physical and mental.

[outsdr.livejournal.com]

No, the tube down the throat came as a total surprise.

The anesthesiologist did come by before the surgery, but never said it was going to be general anesthesia- I'm betting he thought I'd already been told, and for all I knew, even if it was a local anesthesia, it would be administered by a separate doctor. He did ask questions about loose teeth, any metal in the body, if i had eaten anything, but i wasn't given a chance to ask questions, and i don't recall him asking me about breathing problems, although he very well may have.

Like I said, next time, I'll ask more questions.

When I woke up, that's the first I knew that I was being put out, lol. When I'd had surgery back in 1990 on my knee, the anesthesiologist warned me I would taste garlic, and had me count back from 10 as he administered the anesthesia. There was none of that this time around.