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Connie Peters
September 2, 2014
Surgery Experience
I woke up in my bed sweating cause of an awful dream I had about my upcoming surgery on my knee, I was terrified because in the dream I had they messed up and cut the wrong muscle and told me I might not be able to play football anymore and there wasn’t anything they could do about it! I didn’t know what to do so I told my mom to cancel the surgery and I’ll just play through the pain and promised not to complain about it, but she got mad and told me to just relax and were doing the surgery sadly.
The day of my surgery I walked into the hospital and was calm as could be, they asked me to put on the surgery drape and lay on the bed so they could put the IV in my hand and get ready for the surgery as soon as possible before I freaked out again and tried to leave. After they put the IV in my hand they asked me a lot of questions than pushed me back to the operating room where surgery is done, they asked me to switch tables on my own then they immediately strapped both arms and my left leg down so I couldn’t move, the surgeon came in the room asked if I was ready and said, ‘everything will be okay!” that’s all I remember till I was back in the room where I started with my mom, apparently I was crying when I came out of anesthesia but I honestly do not remember any of that. The funniest part about the surgery was when I got back in to the pre-op room she told me to go ahead and change back into my original clothes to go home, but I didn’t know I already had the surgery because I felt just as I did when I went in, so when I went to stand up and put my shorts on I fell over cause I only had one working leg with feeling in it! When I got home I had to walk inside and lay down to prop my leg up higher than my head to get the swelling to go down while icing it also. About a week and a half after the surgery I had a mental breakdown because I was so bored and with all my friends asking me
English/Comp 1
Connie Peters
September 2, 2014
Surgery Experience
I woke up in my bed sweating cause of an awful dream I had about my upcoming surgery on my knee, I was terrified because in the dream I had they messed up and cut the wrong muscle and told me I might not be able to play football anymore and there wasn’t anything they could do about it! I didn’t know what to do so I told my mom to cancel the surgery and I’ll just play through the pain and promised not to complain about it, but she got mad and told me to just relax and were doing the surgery sadly.
The day of my surgery I walked into the hospital and was calm as could be, they asked me to put on the surgery drape and lay on the bed so they could put the IV in my hand and get ready for the surgery as soon as possible before I freaked out again and tried to leave. After they put the IV in my hand they asked me a lot of questions than pushed me back to the operating room where surgery is done, they asked me to switch tables on my own then they immediately strapped both arms and my left leg down so I couldn’t move, the surgeon came in the room asked if I was ready and said, ‘everything will be okay!” that’s all I remember till I was back in the room where I started with my mom, apparently I was crying when I came out of anesthesia but I honestly do not remember any of that. The funniest part about the surgery was when I got back in to the pre-op room she told me to go ahead and change back into my original clothes to go home, but I didn’t know I already had the surgery because I felt just as I did when I went in, so when I went to stand up and put my shorts on I fell over cause I only had one working leg with feeling in it! When I got home I had to walk inside and lay down to prop my leg up higher than my head to get the swelling to go down while icing it also. About a week and a half after the surgery I had a mental breakdown because I was so bored and with all my friends asking me