Surgery
One year ago today, I was rolled into the operating theatre in Aikchol Hospital, Chonburi, Thailand for a life changing operation. I fell asleep under the anaesthetic with two lovely nurses holding my hands and the whole team standing around me smiling (a memory which still brings a tear to my eye). Dr. Suporn, one [...]
Wow… That was a mad few days! Pretty much exactly two weeks ago, I wrote my last post here and headed off for my first business trip (three days in Copenhagen), followed by a birthday party in the Netherlands for my mother and then straight away two days in Paris. I clearly learned my limits [...]
I started work again yesterday, taking it slowly at first working at home half the time and in the office the rest. This morning was interesting, having a conf call whilst dilating, but with judicious use of the phone’s mute button, I managed! When I went into the office today, my desk didn’t look quite [...]
It’s been a little while since my last post and that’s been for two reasons. First of all, my lovely girlfriend has been with me, looking after me, which meant I wanted to give her my full attention. However, another reason is that getting back to normal life, even without work, is amazingly tiring when [...]
My apologies for the late post: I’m catching up with my notes now that I am recovering from my return to Germany! This post refers to March 29th, my last day in Chonburi and I’ve changed the date of the post to reflect that, even though it was only actually posted on 2nd April. Today [...]
Continue reading about The operation – Day 36: Wrapping things up in Chonburi
Today was yet another of my twice weekly check-ups by Dr. Suporn and it went rather well. Down below I am healing really well and he’s very happy with my depth and the way my body’s handling this pretty invasive op he’s done (500 stitches worth: That’s invasive!) What was different about today was that [...]
Continue reading about The operation – Day 30: Checkups and consultations
I always knew that this surgery would be life-changing, and it has already turned out to be that in so many ways at a personal level. However, one thing which is also life-changing is the social aspect of a month in Chonburi. I have to admit that in my real life, I have very little [...]
Continue reading about The operation – Day 28: The other people
Well, today I moved on to the big dilator. It won’t be my main dilator since, like most people, I can’t reach full depth with it, but it will be part of my dilation from now on, largely as a way to make dilation easier over time (making it easier to insert the medium dilator [...]
Continue reading about The operation – Day 26: Getting to know Big Bertha
One of the pleasures patients of Dr. Suporn get to enjoy is dynamic dilation (other surgeons use this, too, but I’m not sure if their procedures are exactly the same as described below). There are two sorts of dilation: The basic sort, static dilation, is quite simple, one inserts the dilator up to ones depth [...]
Continue reading about The operation – Day 23: Going dynamic
This post is very much targeted at those who are planning to go through the sort of operations which I have undertaken. These operations are moments of amazing importance in our life so commitment to make them work is often not an issue. However, there are responsibilities which come with these operations, responsibilities which you [...]
Continue reading about The operation – Day 17: Being clear on post-operative care responsibilities