Pain

OK, time to share my caesarian experience. It's not painful at all...none at all, pain-free all the way UNTIL you wake up from the operation!!!! I remember the feeling as they are wheeling you into the operation theater. There you are lying on the bed and all you see as they are rushing you there are those lights on the ceiling. And the faces of the attendants and your husband's worried look. So exactly like what you see in the movies.

And let me tell you, as those lights flashes before you, all you can feel is FEAR. Pure fear. Somehow you get the feeling like you're being wheeled to your death. Or maybe it's just me :-p That's not bad yet. Then you enter the actual operating room and you are asked to climb onto the cold operating table. That's the point when my legs started to shake uncontrollably - really shake non-stop. But thankfully that wasn't for long. Very soon after, some old looking man was putting a mask over my mouth and nose and saying 'Hi Oi Ping, I'm Dr. See' and that was the last thing I remember in that operation theater. After that I was sleeping like a piggy and when I woke up I was still in a daze not knowing if the operation had begun or was over till a nurse walked over to tell me everything was over. And for the rest of the day I just slip in and out of consciousness. So when they brought the baby to me, I could barely keep my eyes open and nurse her.

When does the pain begin? Well, the moment you open your eyes after the operation. First you feel a pain in your throat – dry scratchy feeling and like it was dying from dehydration. Then you feel the pain at the section where they cut you up. Excruciating pain it was! And don’t even try moving or getting out of bed – you’ll feel like the lower half of your body is tearing apart. I’m not exaggerating at all ok!!! But after 2-3 days it will feel much better and you’ll be a bit more mobile again. That’s the great thing about having the service of the nurses. They practically do everything for you during those days from cleaning you up to changing your clothes.

And what was even more painful than the caesarian wound? Urrgh, the pain when they remove the urine catheter from you. They stick that into your bladder and attach it to a bag so there is no need for you to go do your little business. The urine goes straight to the bag whenever it enters the bladder. So after that is removed and you try to go do your little business like usual, wowee, the urine stings you so bad that more tears come out than urine. The moment a drop of urine tries to come out, the pain made me suck it back in. Hahaha…o boy, those were bad times.

Anyway, it was a good experience. One word of advice though. If you want to go through a caesarian, make sure you have a good partner to take care of you after the operations. Without the support of my husband I think it would have been totally miserable recuperation. You sure need that special someone to hold your hand through all those fear and pain. Not painless but makes it all bearable.