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The pagan patient prepares
Aug. 21st, 2022 09:36 pmI won't have much time to post again before I go for the cataract surgery on Wednesday. There's been so much to think about and organise; it's like planning for a holiday, only I'll be going away for 15 minutes. Next two days I go to work and they're not going to get my full attention, I'm afraid. I rather wish I'd asked for these days also, but I figured it was going to be a long enough stretch since the second operation isn't until 14 days after this one.
Then on Tuesday night I have a Last Meal [allow me my drama] for which I got a steak. I have to do the fasting after midnight thing. I've already booked the Uber for 6.30 am, since I have to get there by 7 am. Even though I won't have to spare any time for breakfast, I'll have to (a) get the last eyedrop in, (b) medicate my heart-patient rat and (c) give myself a RAT test and photograph the result. Else they won't believe me and they'll do the "up your nose with a rubber hose" deal at the hospital.
All this on no caffeine. I'm kind of looking forward to having the next two and a half weeks off, but that won't feel real until I'm actually there, I think. I'm not scared of the op - have had enough information delivered, particularly by folks who've been through this - but apprehensive, yeah. The whole hospital experience. And this is St John of God [Catholic] Hospital so there's also the worry about maybe bursting into flames when I walk across the threshold - or is that just Catholic churches?
Then on Tuesday night I have a Last Meal [allow me my drama] for which I got a steak. I have to do the fasting after midnight thing. I've already booked the Uber for 6.30 am, since I have to get there by 7 am. Even though I won't have to spare any time for breakfast, I'll have to (a) get the last eyedrop in, (b) medicate my heart-patient rat and (c) give myself a RAT test and photograph the result. Else they won't believe me and they'll do the "up your nose with a rubber hose" deal at the hospital.
All this on no caffeine. I'm kind of looking forward to having the next two and a half weeks off, but that won't feel real until I'm actually there, I think. I'm not scared of the op - have had enough information delivered, particularly by folks who've been through this - but apprehensive, yeah. The whole hospital experience. And this is St John of God [Catholic] Hospital so there's also the worry about maybe bursting into flames when I walk across the threshold - or is that just Catholic churches?