"Hotel stay"

1 November 2009, Sunday

I was just discharged from SGH today. Was admitted on Wednesday when I had appointment to see my surgeon and he told me that I need to go under the table again for the same problem. He gave me some medical jargon "FIA" which I have no time to research. He said that if I don't it earlier, the infection would get worse. After having the previous experience, I agreed on the spot.

I have been having discharge from the wound since my last hospital stay in late Aug. In mid October, the infection flare up and I went to see GP. It only solved the problem temporarily for about 1 week and the infection flare up again. The night before, there was even blood discharge. So, no choice, had to do another surgery again. The surgeon said that this problem is quite common. So pray hard that if you have a pus, don't have it next to anus. It has a lot of after "operation" problem.

My mother-in-law calls my hospital stay as hotel stay. Not very pleasant to spend birthday in the hospital. Also, in the midnight of Friday, I was running a fever. The nurse only gave me sponge and cold pack and never gave me panadol that I asked for. Only after the doctors' visit and I told him about it, then I get my panadol. . My eldest sister was very nice. She was almost approaching her workplace and then u-turn back to come to the hospital to accompany me, after hearing that I tear on the phone. The pain was unbearable in the morning at first, with heavy head and fever and nurses not attending to your request plus late breakfast. Everything just seems not right. I only felt more comfortable to see my sister and she bought fish porridge for me for lunch. The hospital food was really lousy that day too! A few friends wanted to visit me and I had to sms to cancel it. Really in super lousy mood.Was drowsy on almost the whole day of Friday and only recover in the night. My hubby visisted at night after work and came with a fruit cake from Bengawan to celebrate my birthday. This brings little cheers to me, coupled with the flowers that I received from my relatives and the fruit basket from the office.

The wound is still quite raw now. I have to monitot it closely. If there is a lot of discharge or blood from the wound or fever returns, I will need to go back to SGH again. Fingers crossed.

One good news that I almost forgot. My tumour marker has dropped to record low of 142! Protein level has also inched up after I pumped protein powder daily. But because of the surgery, the oncologist asked me to stay off from my chemo drugs for 2 weeks. I really hope that the tumour marker will not jump up 200 points like the last time. Will pray very hard for it.