I went for an operation on my neck, I had a sebaceous cyst that keeps flaring up. They had done a pre-op appointment last week and told me to be in there by quarter to 7 on a Friday morning. I didn’t actually get into theatre until 11 o’clock. I know that emergencies come in to be sorted out first so they move the operating schedule but as I understand it, there were none and they knew I wouldn’t be seen till then.
I sat in the waiting room till quarter to 9 and then I had to go back out to my car to get pain killers for my bad back. I also don’t do operations well to start with, I got up at 4am to get ready, I wanted to make sure I got there on time because I’m really worried about this operation, my back's killing me, I had no sleep because I’m so worried and then I was just waiting. For what? I feel you could have told me that you wont get in till 10 o’clock so if you could be here about 9 o’clock.
I come back from my car after I got my pain killers and a nurse comes out to see me. She says come with us so you can lay down in one of these chairs and I got a heat pack for my back and that was a big help. I waited there from 9-11.
Then the surgeon decided that they're not going to put me under, they're giving me a local. Every time they put the local into the boil on my neck, I would twist around on the table which was hurting my back, it was killing me with every prod. I came out of the operation and they say to me I needed to stay here for an hour and I go, “no I don’t I was just under a local, I don’t have to wait.” I wanted to get out of there as soon as possible.
"Pain management before and during day procedure"
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