The Operation

30 December 2009, Wednesday aka the operation day.

Opereation was smooth and successful. Andy is now transferred to the High Dependency Ward, the exact place where Sim laid yesterday. The same treatment process and medication had been dosed on him. Now I see why he resisted morphine. The side effects are really strong and rapid. I haven't seen any medication with such strong side effects. Mostly says drowsiness which have no much effect on me. None of the many side effects of malaria pills (similar to that of a morphine) we took for Sabah trips worked on me.

Sim couldn't pee. Although his bladder was full, his bladder was too weak to let them out. The nurses wanted to put a tube in to drew it out. He resisited.SHY. That's one of the many problems of young patient. Andy has a weirder form. He itches all over,but unable to scratch. So the entire visiting hours we lent him the scracthing hand. We really had to massage on his forehead to relieve his headache. The nurse injected another stuff to relieve his abdominal pain. So it's like using one medication to relieve pain, and another medication to relieve the side effects of it. They worked on top of each other.

That's how morphine works. You hate it and yet can't live without it.