Biopsy Surgery

After a big work trip in New Zealand covering Auckland, Queenstown and Wellington, it was time to leave reality behind and wing my way back on Thursday night for surgery on Friday 18th November.

We had a visible diagnosis by Tim Baker, but now it was time to get a sample from the tumour for a diagnosis. Due to where the tumour was, the only way was for day surgery under general anaesthetic. 

This was at St Vincent's in Grey St, East Melbourne. Poor Claire came but she was only allowed 2 metres inside the front door due to covid protocols.

The whole team were great. I walked into the operating theatre, hopped up on the deb/trolley and they got me comfortable then put a mask over my nose and mouth. I remember counting to 5 with a gas mask over my face and next thing I was waking up in recovery with lots of blood splatters over my hospital gown. I was told it was full of blood - no shit, worked that out from the gown!

After a while I was wheeled into another place, still a bit groggy, and then got to visit the toilet and have some ice cream, jelly and custard. My throat was a bit sore but not too bad. My anaesthetist came and saw me and said not to worry about the blood; everything went well and they got a good sample.

Now we wait to find out how bad it is while I travel to Perth on Monday for a week there.

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