24 Latin Call to Surgery
At 5 p.m., I was told that my surgery was scheduled for 6 p.m.
In true Latin American fashion, 6 p.m. came and passed, so I asked again and was told that surgery was shifted to 7 p.m. This happened again at 8 p.m.
I decided to relax, and consciously lower my expectations.
At 11:30 that night, I was finally wheeled down to surgery, which lasted about two hours.
When I awoke from surgery, and looked down at my leg, I was shocked.
Furthermore, I had no feeling whatsoever from the waist down, my body paralyzed without even so much as the ability to wiggle a toe.
But I have gotten ahead of myself here.
Undergoing surgery in a Latin American country is an experience. Among other things, I had to be willing to lay aside a number of mindsets of how this would be handled in my home country, let alone attempting to compare the two.
In true Latin American fashion, 6 p.m. came and passed, so I asked again and was told that surgery was shifted to 7 p.m. This happened again at 8 p.m.
I decided to relax, and consciously lower my expectations.
At 11:30 that night, I was finally wheeled down to surgery, which lasted about two hours.
When I awoke from surgery, and looked down at my leg, I was shocked.
Furthermore, I had no feeling whatsoever from the waist down, my body paralyzed without even so much as the ability to wiggle a toe.
But I have gotten ahead of myself here.
Undergoing surgery in a Latin American country is an experience. Among other things, I had to be willing to lay aside a number of mindsets of how this would be handled in my home country, let alone attempting to compare the two.
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