There was nothing amusing about the laparoscopy as far as I can remember.... I can remember my sister very kindly taking me off to Stoke hospital at very early o'clock... Standing around in the mizzle for a while waiting for the doors to be opened then getting to the day ward; which was typically hectic with the inmates and assorted relatives not being completely sure what to do with themselves...
Being admitted consisted of the usual blood pressure tests and wot not... Asked the same set of questions which I seem to have been asked a gazillion times now... And no, I don't have any allergies and am not diabetic fortunately...
There were 6 of us blokes to the ward in various states of apprehension and a fair amount of milling about and repetitive questioning went on; after an hour or so I was wheeled off down many corridors to the anaesthetists who established that I still didn't have allergies and put me out....
There's nothing much to say about the recuperation as I didn't get any results... I did get big sis appearing at the end of the bed to whisk me away... Parking is awful at Stoke around 4 and much walking may be required... As well as struggling to find a space... Extremely tedious but hey ho, hopefully won't have to be doing it too often...
The pain from the laparoscopy was completely gone after about a week... In time for me to do my respatory and Cardiovascular exercises.....
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