About 11pm Sunday the hand registrar at Middlemore saw me, he needed to talk to his superiors but expected the surgeon would operate to pin the bones and put a plate in my hand. I would have to be back at Middlemore Monday, 7:30 am at TADU (Theater And Discharge Unit), I could go home and wasn't allowed to eat after 2am, so my flatmate took me home and I had dinner 1 am Monday morning. My flatmate said, "some people go to extreme lengths to get some time off to watch the America's Cup." I still missed Tuesday's race as you'll see later!
The doctor did warn me that he couldn't guarantee I'd be operated on on Monday, children and open wounds take priority. 7:30 am my flatmate had me back at Middlemore. Whole day no food, only a sip of water at 8am for some Paracetamol. 3pm I was told they wouldn't get to me and I could go home and be back 7:30 Tuesday. I was given some sandwiches, an apple and very nice piece of cake. One of the nurses dropped me off home (I first had, "nurse took me home", but that has improper connotations).
Tuesday morning I was back at Middlemore TADU. While being prept for surgergy I missed the race, before I was put under I was told we lost again (now 8 all) 10 am I was operated on, 12:30 pm I was in the recovery room, I threw up, blood pressure was very low (higher number was only 99!), and they said I was given lots of Morphine and didn't want to let me go until they were sure they knew how to control my pain, (it was successful so far) so they checked me into ward 35 overnight.
Late Wednesday morning I went home, my friend Brendan picked me up.
end of part two.
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