Surgery No. 3: Completion (Part 2)

Now, just after I managed to pee, I started having stomachache.

The stomache is terrible, and I shudder at the thought of having to pull up the gauze that was inserted into the wound of my anus.

However, the ache is too great, and I have to definitely go to the loo.

I pull off the gauze, which is longer than the previous time, filled with pus and blood.

Surprisingly, I did not feel much pain this time.

I hypothesized it is due to that this was the 3rd surgery, and that the previous wounds have already healed, while the current operation had cleared the inner part of the problematic region which had no pain sensors.

Anyway, I passed motion, and I asked the nurse to prepare a salt water bath for me to sit in, since this is one of the general recommendations for anal fistulae.

The nurse went to get some salt, and returned later with a bag of salt, and a huge pail, which is big enough to put 4 of my asses (my ass is already quite big).

Anyway, beggars can't choose, so I have to squat and soak my anus into the big pail, while balancing my body in order to avoid falling over, and avoid my anus touching the pail, because who knows what bacteria/micro-organisms are there (a recommendation from my uncle).

Now, when I am soaking in the salt water bath, I felt a pain in my stomach again.

Great, now I have to pass motion again, and the repeat the 15-minute salt water bath again!

That was just the start of the seemingly endless numbers of time I shitted, because once I finished my salt water bath, I would get stomachache once again, which lead to salt water bath again, and again the stomachache, repeat, repeat and repeat.

I tried eating some bread, drank hot milo, put some medicated balm, but none worked, I was still feeling the stomachache, even though all I shitted was just blood and some pus. (I borrowed the medicated balm from one of the nurses, but in the next morning, the balm was gone, and I assumed that the nurse has took it back. )

The thing is, since I was going to loo all the time, the nurses were unable to do my dressing on the wound, because if they did, I would need to pull out the dressing each time I go to the loo, and repeat the pain of doing that.

Anyway, I decided to bear with the stomachache in the end, and kept my mind busy instead by watching ESPN's college basketball, and sudoku.

Luckily, it worked, and I managed to get some sleep, albeit at around 4am.

Around 6-7am, I was woken up by the nurse, because it is time to do dressing.

I was expecting the worse, because I still remembered the first time I did dressing, the pain was excruciating.

However, once again, the pain of the dressing this time was bearable, compared to the previous dressings.

Dr. Ravi came over around 9am later, and basically approved me to go back home.

I asked him about the antibiotics since I was given antibiotics after the previous surgeries, and he told me that I shouldn't need any.

I assumed that he had actually forgotten about it, because when I checked out later, I was given antibiotics at the medicine counter.

Total bill for the surgery plus additional 3 weeks of dressings?

Around RM3500. (Previous bill was only RM2700, but is without 3 weeks of dressings.)