Recovery from the operation

Having woken in the recovery theatre I was very surprised how little pain I was feeling and was able to make jokes with the nurse looking after me.

This was a case of waiting for the bed space to come free as I found out later.

I had a drink and bourbon biscuits as I had not eaten since 7pm the night before and it was now around 4pm.

Around 4.30pm the bed had come free and three nurses wheeled the bed from the recovery area up one floor in the lift to the ward.