I initially took the pain in my stride and kept on living. But by the beginning of 2018, the pain was relentless and affecting my day-to-day living in many ways.
The type of surgery I was going to have is not a big deal but due to sickle cell, it became one. A healthy person without sickle cell would go in on the day early to have the operation and come out later that day. But due to sickle cell, I was told to arrive the day before to be monitored and put on a drip before surgery. On the day, I had two lovely people who came with me to hospital and stayed chatting with me for a while. That took my mind off things, thanks guys.
I was told to drink as much as I could from when I was admitted till 2am and after I needed to be nil mouth. I did as I was told because the surgery had to be successful. Due to the injection and drip drama, I hardly slept that night and slowly dawn broke and I was still awake. The same doctor from the orthopedic team came to see me again and he explained the procedure to me one more time. After he left, the anesthetist also came to explain what they would be doing too.
Post-surgery, I noticed I could not lift that hand, no sensation at all. It was numb, my goodness. It was heavy and my hand was in a sling and the shoulder was heavily bandaged up. I was numb from my neck and the anesthetics doctors had told me it would take about 18 hours for the effects to wear off and that was what happened. It only started wearing off after 18 hours but took longer to feel completely with it.
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