Liver Biopsy (pg6)

12/3/2010 Liver Biopsy Day...scared to death!! I am sissy about pain.
Well I would like to thank the Lahey Clinic for my hot male Murses Shawn and Brian as they made this quite interesting to begin with. I was given some Fentanyl mixed with some other stuff, makes you semi conscious but not..yeah good stuff!! I remember getting changed for the test and hearing the names of my friends being called, Cynthia, Elizabeth and a few more, so I took it as a sign that I was being watched over today, and I was trying to keep my big girl face on for Lynne. So I get called by Shawn he sticks my needle port thingy in my wrist cause I got a "big vein" there and I was  sent to go sit out in the waiting room until my room is ready, Ya and umm Lynne she hates to look at needles hanging out of ya so I tried to cover it so she did not  have to look at it.
Next I remember being in the room lots of lights, Murse Shawn and Brian...ya they were cuties and they introduce me to Lin the student Murse who looks like Long Duc Dong, o and being kinda drugged up you know I said it and had the boys laughing. I remember seeing the needle get stuck in my chest by a woman doctor who I think her name was Dr Oharryo..course I was to drugged up to know if that was really what they said her name was, but hey one of my close friends name is Oharra so the sound of this  Doc's name worked for me.  Next I remember waking up in a recovery room area in immense pain. Lynne was a trooper through this for sure, my pain level was an 8 (yes I understand now to explain pain by numbers, haha) and so Wendy (another great name) nurse brings me a this pill. Says "Here take this it will help with the pain" Umm, ok listen when someone hands you a white big chalky pill in a little cup you know it is not going to be good! So I take it and in a few minutes I look at Lynne and say "I gotta puke!" Lynne is feverishly looking for something for me to puke in, she finds a bowl that they used to store the sticky things they put on your chest to monitor your heart and hands it to me. Ah yes and the skeleton faced looking lady behind the nurses station is watching me vomit. Nurse Wendy arrives back and says Awe, guess Percaset does not work for you, so she hits me with some Fentanyl....and...I think I passed out.
Next I remember throwing up and eating crackers and Lynne asking me what I was doing. Apparently I had the vomit bag in one hand and a cracker in the other. My response was something like I don't know I am trying to hold something down. Remember this a drug induced memory and some hear say, I just know that Lynne did not vomit with me and she managed to get me home where the only thing I remember was my Dad saying Thank you Mel and me  waking up the next day............. gotta tell ya Fent-a-friend very helpful to get through some this stuff and apparently makes for great laughter. Even though this was painful, I would do it again. The best part of this awful day was hearing my Dad say Thank you and remembering it!!