Surgery

I came home from school with fear in my heart know that tomorrow was the night of my surgery. My mom told me to eat a lot at dinner because I couldn’t  have anything but water after 10:00 pm. I then went to bed thinking of all the bad things that could happen such as not making it through the surgery, waking up during surgery and being in the most pain that could ever have imagined.  Surgery can be scary, even for people 80 years old.

The alarm goes off at 8:00am I woke up and the first thing that I felt was my stomach drop, because I was so frightened. I then got ready to go to the oral surgeon as my heart felt like it was in my throat.  I came down the stairs as a I saw my grandma and mom waiting for me to leave. As we were in the car they were both tell me not to worry, I knew that there was nothing to worry about but I still had those thoughts in my head from the night before.

I got in to my surgery room and they took all these test,  I had so many wires on me I lost count. I knew that it was time for surgery and that my mom had to leave the room. I then started to have tears pelt down my face. My mom didn’t want to leave because she felt bad because I am her “baby girl” and it was my first surgery. They then made my mom leave as they started to make me breathe in threw my nose and out through my mouth the “laughing gas”. I started to feel Dizzy. Uncomfortable but by that time my body was so weak I did not have the strength to tell the doctors and nurses that I did not feel comfortable. The last thing I remember was have doctor Wagner stab the IV needle In my body, like someone were to slice a watermelon in half that is what it felt like to me. They then proceed with the surgery and of course I didn’t remember anything.

My nurse then came over by me and said “Olivia it is time to wake up”. I looked at her all confused she told me that I did a great job in the surgery.  I told her that my mouth felt funny and that there was all this stuff inside. She told me that they were gauges to stop the bleeding. I asked her if I could take them out and she told me not to take them out until I got home. She also told me that I had some stitches inside my mouth.  

As I laid there in the chair still waking up my nurse told me that she was going to take me to the recovery room. As I got up and out of the chair I was still a little “loopy” so she had to hold on to me to make sure I didn’t fall and hurt myself. As  was walking down the hall I started to fall asleep again so my nurse told me stay with us and keep walking because we were almost to the room. I finally made it to the room and I say down in the chair that was in there.

I waited for my mom to come into my recovery room and come and pick me up. It took a matter of two minutes. When she came in doctor Wagner told her everything that happened and it ended up not being what they thought was in my mouth. After we left the oral surgeon we went to costco to get my prescription. My mom then bought me a chocolate shake we went home and I fell asleep for the rest of the day because I was so tired.

In the end I didn’t think that surgery was so bad after all. You may think it is awful situation which it can  be for some people  but one your doctor tells you about everything that is going to happen you suddenly feel a huge weight lifted off of your shoulder.