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At about 5.00 p.m on the 3rd of April, after I took a shower, the nurses started to put me on drip (fasted since 10.30 a.m!), they also started prepare me for the surgery. Since my sisters were still at work, the nurse kept my purse and personal belongings. She listed out everything and applied Dymo labels with my names and ID numbers on them.

At about 6.15 p.m, I was wheeled into the operating theater. The last few things I remembered were: it was damned cold inside there, the nurse asked me whether a man who was wondering around was my husband, and  the anaesthesist gave me some “fresh oxygen”!

I have told my sisters to bring me some porridge at about 9.30-10.30 p.m, thought I would be very hungry when I woke up after the surgery. My sisters rushed to the hospital at around 9.00 p.m, they waited and waited in the ward. At about 10 p.m, a nurse came up to look for my family members and brought them down to the operating theater and told them about what happened and why the surgery took so long.