Nurses in post operative recovery room - Think because you're somewhat out of it, they can man-handle you. (A quick 'LEAVE ME ALONE' worked wonders)

Anesthetists - make the difference between a good surgery and a surgery with 'issues'.

Trapped gas - what a total and utter biatch.

Drugs - Have them all

drinks - weird how some work and others don't

food - my partner is fast becoming the human dustbin. If I can't drink it/eat it (I'm on clear fluids, plain yoghurt and jello), then he finishes it off. He's not complaining.

Drugs - Did I mention the drugs? No? Yes? If I did, my apologies. I'm just too high to remember or to care! Huzzah!

Thanks for all the pre-op advice, it was invaluable. I shall now be devouring your post-op advice, too!

Revs

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Nurses in recovery were my target.

"Breathe, Gary, Breathe!" one of them said.

"Ok", says I, "but tell me..was it a boy or a girl?"

No laugh,...tough room.

I have to say and pardon my french, one of the nurses in the recovery room was a complete a*****e. They'd jiggled something they shouldn't have done during surgery, my anesthesia hadn't gone that well and I had trapped gas in my ribcage (allegedly) and this bird wanted to throw me around as I was attempting to chuck my guts up. Just so she could wrap me up, 'check a box' (words used by the collecting nurses) and get me out of there. A few were horrified. When I said 'LEAVE ME ALONE', there may have been an expletive in the middle of it and in front of her colleagues. I make no apologies for that . Although, after paying for 'top quality' private care in the UK - I expected more. Glad I'm on the other end of it though. The nurses on the main ward made up for that persons lack of professionalism.

I have a huge bruise on my stomach from where they injected the blood thinners, and I remember telling one of them they need to be sure to cover my ass when I got up to go pee because the gown they gave me didn't go all the way around. Otherwise, I have no memory of the recovery room at all...

I think that's what they rely on.. people not remembering. However, I was 'lucky' enough, whilst trying to vomit my newly eviscerated stomach through my mouth, to come round pretty quickly and remember everything. Even down to the complaints made by three nurses about a) the anesthetist and his crap record for that day and the nurse who was man-handling me. I was given a feedback form to fill out. Guess what I'll be writing up?!