My Hand Surgery

I'm home.. Of course, my surgery this morning was a minor surgery & I was an out-patient.. The operation was about less than an hour.. Around 8minutes for the preparation before the procedure itself.. Then it only took around 20minutes for my doctor to cut & remove the huge tumor.. Then about 10minutes to stitch my hand.. Haha! I kinda took a mental note of the time because there's a clock on the wall.. My head & eyes keep on switching glances from the wall clock, to the ceiling & to my hand.. Yes, I got to see it.. I saw my open-bloody hand being operated.. When Dr. Lopez told us that my right hand needs to be operated, my question is: "can I look?"
Haha! Because I'm so curious eh.. Coz I was kinda disappointed that when I had a cyst/tumor operation years ago (when I was in 3rd yr highschool), they didn't let me look at my left right finger while it's being operated.. The doctor said: "we won't start the procedure if you're still looking".. So, disappointed, I just switched my head to the other side.. Haha! But this morning, during my operation, my doctor didn't prohibit me to look at my bloody hand.. I felt like it's kinda weird for a patient to watch intently on his/her own operation, that's why I change glances once in a while.. Hehe. My hand was of course injected with local anesthesia, so I didn't feel a thing.. Though while my hand was being sliced open, the anesthesia on the lower-small part didn't took effect at once, so I kinda felt the slicing on that part.. Maybe just about 1cm.. But after 2 slices, that part was already numb like the others.. It's not really painful.. Parang sinugatan lang.. Haha! My only problem was, it's so cold inside the operating room! As in.. I was chilling under the blanket.. Hehe. The operation was really fast, I thought it would take an hour or two.. After 40minutes, I'm out of the OR.. What took us so long was because of the billing department.. We went home around 9am..

my huge Chorizo-like tumor
about 3inches in height, 1nch in width

Thanks for all your prayers.. The operation went smooth & there wasn't any complications.. It could have been different.. So, thanks a lot! :)

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