Shock at 22
I was a young lady attending my 2nd year of university. My life was full of promises, surprises and I had alot of dreams. To pursue a biological sciences degree with a minor in chemistry so that my career options would be boundless and a great assurance to my parents that I will definitely do well in life.
On the 16th of Feb, after a game of bowling and lunch with some friends, I headed home for some rest as I was having some abdominal discomforts. The pain got worse even after I tried to sleep it off, that was when I knew that I have to see a doctor about it, I cannot take the pain any longer.
At my request, my mum and brother took me to a nearby government hospital and have them check me up. At the A&E, I waited for almost an hour before I was wheeled into the small clinic area for the first preliminary check up. By then, I was speechless in pain, for a person with very high threshold for pain, this pain was way ABOVE my threshold.
The nurse checked that I had no fever, no other issues besides the severe abdominal pain and I was ordered to do an X-ray. So I got onto a bed, got wheeled around to the Radiology department and got zapped. The xray came back normal, they could not determine what's the cause for the severe discomforts. So they sent me up to the ward to rest for observations. There a medical officer ie those practising doctor, who many not have actually gotton their medical certification to BE a doctor yet came up to examine me. He poke around my abdomen and it was ok for most areas except for ONE spot on the right side of the lower abdomen.
He poked two fingers down on the same spot AGAIN, this time with MORe strength, held his fingers there for two seconds and released the pressure suddenly! The pain that it incurred nearly made me leap out of the bed, I was almost folded in half!
By this time, I was in severe pain for 3hrs with no painkillers and no doctor could tell me what's wrong with me. The blood test results will take a while to return to verify if it was the famous appendicitis condition that they suspect but yet with NO fever, NO obivious signs on the xrays either. Just one spot that hurts.......
At 1am, a young surgeon came to my bedside, told me and my family that they suspect that my pain is from an inflamed appendix and they recommend to remove my appendix as a routine procedure. Feeling assured, my family left me as I got wheeled into the surgery theatre.....
I went into the theatre thinking that it was something small and insignificant, the pain was too extreme for fear to set in, in addition, after 12hrs of starvation, there was little energy in me to protest or enquire....
I remember feeling extremely COLD after the surgery and felt like the world was so weird, my stomach was turning and turning.... then the same young surgeon came to my bedside and wake me up from my semi-conscienceness to tell me that my appendix was fine!
HUH?
The next few sentences that came out of him was quite tough to understand or comprehand, bascially he told me that there was a blood cyst in my right ovary which burst and to rescue ME, he had to remove the entire right ovary!
HUH??
This guy took out my ovary! Without my permission, without having a specialist to even come down to take a look at me!
I was angry and confused but was also extremely weak and sadden by his bad news.
On the 16th of Feb, after a game of bowling and lunch with some friends, I headed home for some rest as I was having some abdominal discomforts. The pain got worse even after I tried to sleep it off, that was when I knew that I have to see a doctor about it, I cannot take the pain any longer.
At my request, my mum and brother took me to a nearby government hospital and have them check me up. At the A&E, I waited for almost an hour before I was wheeled into the small clinic area for the first preliminary check up. By then, I was speechless in pain, for a person with very high threshold for pain, this pain was way ABOVE my threshold.
The nurse checked that I had no fever, no other issues besides the severe abdominal pain and I was ordered to do an X-ray. So I got onto a bed, got wheeled around to the Radiology department and got zapped. The xray came back normal, they could not determine what's the cause for the severe discomforts. So they sent me up to the ward to rest for observations. There a medical officer ie those practising doctor, who many not have actually gotton their medical certification to BE a doctor yet came up to examine me. He poke around my abdomen and it was ok for most areas except for ONE spot on the right side of the lower abdomen.
He poked two fingers down on the same spot AGAIN, this time with MORe strength, held his fingers there for two seconds and released the pressure suddenly! The pain that it incurred nearly made me leap out of the bed, I was almost folded in half!
By this time, I was in severe pain for 3hrs with no painkillers and no doctor could tell me what's wrong with me. The blood test results will take a while to return to verify if it was the famous appendicitis condition that they suspect but yet with NO fever, NO obivious signs on the xrays either. Just one spot that hurts.......
At 1am, a young surgeon came to my bedside, told me and my family that they suspect that my pain is from an inflamed appendix and they recommend to remove my appendix as a routine procedure. Feeling assured, my family left me as I got wheeled into the surgery theatre.....
I went into the theatre thinking that it was something small and insignificant, the pain was too extreme for fear to set in, in addition, after 12hrs of starvation, there was little energy in me to protest or enquire....
I remember feeling extremely COLD after the surgery and felt like the world was so weird, my stomach was turning and turning.... then the same young surgeon came to my bedside and wake me up from my semi-conscienceness to tell me that my appendix was fine!
HUH?
The next few sentences that came out of him was quite tough to understand or comprehand, bascially he told me that there was a blood cyst in my right ovary which burst and to rescue ME, he had to remove the entire right ovary!
HUH??
This guy took out my ovary! Without my permission, without having a specialist to even come down to take a look at me!
I was angry and confused but was also extremely weak and sadden by his bad news.
posted by Jen | 11:57 AM
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