All questions answered. all tests passed. Green light for Friday.
I am not to eat anything solid after 2.30 am, so I'll be okay for my home delivery Pizza at about 1.00 am.
I am not to drink any fluids after 4.00 am, so I can linger over the jumbo sized cola that comes free with my pizza. A quick train journey, change of train and another train ride will take me to Gartnavel.
The anesthetist will come and see me and remind me to bring my CPAP machine to the theatre suite so that it will be handy for my recovery. (I have Apnoea and without the CPAP I'd start to obstruct whenever I came off the supported breathing machine).
The nice nurse will give me a pre-med and I shall stop worrying about the source of my next pizza.
They will give me a huge box labeled "Human Tissue for Transplant", and send me on my merry way to the holding suite on the theatre level.
another nice nurse will check on who I am and then yet another porter will wheel me into the anesthetic room where they'll boost my SPO2 and encourage me to fall into a deep and dreemless sleep.
Once asleep they will take away most of my own left cornea and give me the stroma layer of the one I had carried down from the ward. this will have been frozen tissue, and the present intention is to let me keep my own endothelium.
The present intention is to give me the new cornea net of its epithelium.
The next thing I'll know is when a nurse in the recovery room is telling me not to footer with my CPAP. Then back to the ward and a visit from my wife and daughter. I'll be in overnight; a clinic on Saturday morning should see me passed fit for discharge and then home for something nice to eat.
I promise not to upset the nurses by giving anything but the most direct answer to the questions they need to ask about my recovery from the General Anesthetic.
To all who are going to the Scottish Group meeting on Saturday; have a great time. I am sorry that I can't be with you.
Andrew
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Hehe Jayuk you just watch it!! LOL!!! 
I did read all of the nice comments Andrew gave nurses as well and am hoping that they are as nice as can be!
There is nothing worse than nurses who do not care or can't be contacted when you need help.
When i had my graft there nurses there knew i was one as well and didn't check on it very much, but sadly this is how we all are to each other! Looking after a surgeon or doctor is sooo much easier! I knew that nurses wouldn't be running in to see me so i took my own painkillers with me which really helped! I did have to buzz for someone early in the morning though as i was in pain but they were really nice to me.
Best of luck Andrew! I am so happy that everything is going so well for you! We will all be thinking of you and wishing you a good operation and speedy recovery!
Love Sweet X x X
I did read all of the nice comments Andrew gave nurses as well and am hoping that they are as nice as can be!
There is nothing worse than nurses who do not care or can't be contacted when you need help.
When i had my graft there nurses there knew i was one as well and didn't check on it very much, but sadly this is how we all are to each other! Looking after a surgeon or doctor is sooo much easier! I knew that nurses wouldn't be running in to see me so i took my own painkillers with me which really helped! I did have to buzz for someone early in the morning though as i was in pain but they were really nice to me.
Best of luck Andrew! I am so happy that everything is going so well for you! We will all be thinking of you and wishing you a good operation and speedy recovery!
Love Sweet X x X
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Hehe point taken Andrew!
Giving injections are not that bad and most patients i give them to say that they didn't feel anything even though they were terrified to have one! Blood tests are not that bad either if you tell people to look away and talk to them so that they totally forget what it is you are doing! By the time they remember what they there were for it has been done and all over with!
I just hope they are as nice as that with you, though with your positive attitude i think you will do just fine!!!
Sweet X x X
Giving injections are not that bad and most patients i give them to say that they didn't feel anything even though they were terrified to have one! Blood tests are not that bad either if you tell people to look away and talk to them so that they totally forget what it is you are doing! By the time they remember what they there were for it has been done and all over with!
I just hope they are as nice as that with you, though with your positive attitude i think you will do just fine!!!
Sweet X x X
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