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Diary 5
Feb 19

Today,s breakfast was good. A sandwich with ham and cheese, two eggs, salad, and a muffin for desert. Around noon the doctor dropped by to bring the ethernet cable and the crutches. The computer specialist ( He speaks perfect English ) came along and set up the password and IP and everything. Now finally I can upload the page.!

Otherwise, I had nothing to do.......

  Diary 6 Feb 20

Today was a sad day for two reasons. One, I am having trouble uploading the page. Whenever I try to upload the page, FTP connection faliure occurs. I have tried everything that I coud think of, but nothing worked. This may perhaps be due to the squid proxy server that this hospital is using. But it is out of my reach. I have to get someone to help me!

Second, and the most important, Drs have decided to postpone the operation which was supposed to be done tomorrow for 5 days. So this is what happened. I had a upper normal or minor abnormality of the blood test related to the kidney. Urine test was normal. I had no symptom related to kidney in the past. At first, they told me that it was not a big concern which I agree as medical professional myself, but to make sure they want to do a utrasonography of the kidney in the afternoon which proved to be normal. But then, they were not satisfied for some reason. They decied that they want to do the test again (blood and urine) and because the operation is done only on Tuesdays and Thursdays they have to postpone the operation till next Tuesday.

This upset me for two main reasons. First, if they were going to need a retest of the urine and blood sample in regardless of the result of the ultrasongraphy, they should have done the test this morning or yesterday so that they could see the result today. Second, they could not explain me what their concerns was for the possible mild abnormality of the data. They kept on saying something like they might be in trouble when something happens. And moreover, they told me that they will surely do the operation next Tuesday and I get to go back to my country as planned. This means that they are going to do the operation regardless of the result of the retest.

This is how I understand. They do not take the test results as medically very serious. However, because they are dealing with healthy indivisual with new surgical application, they want to be ready for review by authorities in case something happens in the future, not necessarily related to this issue or perhaps not even me.

In good terms, they are being causious.....



Typical breakfast, tastes good!
  Diary 7 Feb 22

Yesterday morning (Feb 21), I had the retest of the blood, which showed similar results. Because now I have some time till the operation, they took me out for shopping. The Drs were probably trying to cheer me up because I was upset the previous day. It is so good to breathe the outside air!

In the evening, I had 1500cc of Lactate Ringer (something similar to saline)followed by furosemide (potent diuretics) injected. This was to correct the figures related to the kidney.

I was able to consult the FTP problem with the computor person. He told me that the firewall that the local administrator has set up for the network interferes with FTP usage. Therefore, I can not upload the website that I created with Dreamweaver with FTP. It seems less trouble to start all over and build the page using the server`s application. So I have to work on it......

Hospital, front view
  Diary 8 Feb 25

Today, after I had the inspection of the anesthesia doctor, the doctors have finally decided to do the operations tomorrow! Anyway as conclusion, not a big change in the retest data, maybe tiny improvement, they decided it was not a big concern. Normal operation with normal anesthesia is to be done. It was rather tough time for me during the waiting period because staying in the room all day, make me think bad things, things that I had never thought of before. Although thanks for the past 5 days, I have accumulated many questions all of which I asked of course. I also told them that I wanted the picture of the device to upload on the web site, but they told me that they are going to show the picture of the device on their new up coming web site. And that they wanted to control the information on their special device (It seems to be their secret weapon!).
I also asked for the picture of the operation room. The Drs told me that they will have to ask the operation room manager.
So here goes operation plans. I take a light dinner today. Inject prophylactic anticoagulant, perform enema (Oh! This is not fun!) to clear out the guts. Go bed, no eating and drinking from 3:00 AM tomorrow. 10:30 operation starts. General anesthesia. Bilateral tibia/fibula lengthening which take roughly 5 hours including the anesthesia and its recovery time. I may not be able to upload information tomorrow, but I will try.
May the luck be with me! Ciao!

Hospital, oblique view