no swelling!

whee! no swelling... i can open my mouth.. can sing... just that i don't dare to open it too wide to pronounce the vowels properly. so i'm keeping mum for now :) but not too long!

went down to HPB by 0740.. was wondering where to take my queue number to take my blood test... was hovering outside the polyclinic and the clinic lab and wells, SO MANY people were there to take lab tests! and that place only opens at 0800! i was so amazed. so i was number 7 and sat down and wait.. and by 0805 i was taking the blood test and i told the lab tech or nurse i have to have the results by 0830 cos i'm suppose to go report for surgery at 0830... she said.. "ok. we'll rush for u.. u'll get it at 0835"..
then at 0825, NDC personnel called and ask "jiahui ah.. are u coming for surgery? a patient pulled out.. so we're going to do u next.."
excitedly, i went into the lab and told the same nurse that i need to go now cos i'm next haha.. and she passed me the test results in 2 mins.. and soon i was down at level 3 of NDC, registering.. filling up forms... and stupid me forgot to bring my appointment card... so they made a new one for me. :)
so the doctor at the recovery ward was explaning to me and my mum about the risks involved. and signed some more papers.. i was shocked cos i thought that this is the surgeon who's going to operate on me.. but she only has a BDS from Singapore.. and she's so young.. and i thought, eh.. cannot be right........yupyup. and i was scolding myself for stereotyping..

so i changed into my blue gown, took off my glasses.. bundled up my hair, had the bitter nasal spray to dry up my throat and so that they can put a tube through my nose during the surgery.. so i walked into the room, they were all waiting... i lied down on the table.... the anaesthesian was explaining to me what he's doing and asking me questions about what i'm doing now, the surgeon came and introduced himself too...
and after i was adminstered the "sleeping water".. i took 3 deep breathes from the oxygen mask.. and FELL ASLEEP.. plonk.
woke up at around 1030 after constant shivering... i was so bloody cold. then i felt as if i couldn't talk cos my lower lip and tongue were numb.. and felt swollen.. i touched my lower lip and it is indeed a bit swollen.... and i was lipsing to my mum.. and she showed me my teeth ahah... and i was coughing away... and trying to swallow...

the nurse came to ask me how i was... whether i felt pain.. and it was only the left side.... so she helped me up and made me take some painkillers and the antacid... with ribena! ohh man.... ribena was so nice then! then i went back to rest for about 15 more mins and i want to go home liao. too cold haah.. i changed and spit out blood... and we walked out and took the MRT home ahhaahha...

i'm so happy that i didn't swell.. i mean the cheeks didn't.. the numbness went away.. and i'm not tireed! and it isn't that pain! :)

but.. i think i better rest and not be too happy about no pain yet... :)

so thats the happy part about my day.. i sang.. and talked.. albeit not as normally as i should.. and i want to go chorale tmr hahaha