The "SCRUBS" effect.....

Well....it all started with this stupid problem with my right leg...i seemed to have developed a corn..which only got worse day by day...i knew the most common thing people do about is it surgically remove it...but that was the last thing i wanted to do...!!for the simple reason that it takes forever to heal and i dint want to not dance for such a long time...so i tried pranic healing...homeopathy...corn caps...and all kinds of stuff ...but nothing worked...and it came up such a point that i started having severe pain when i walked..so hence i had to do it...had to do what i hated the most!!...remove it..surgically!!so i went ....to a certain hospital where my mom is popular,hence hoping i would get some good treatment!!

So I'm sitting out side the A6 block(operation ward) which is on the 6th floor,which is so funny because when ever there is the mention of the A6 block there is this immediate pity look one receives lol... anyway so I'm sitting there with my black capri pants and a brown shirt watching mauna ragam on Ktv....waiting for the nurse to call me in for surgery...finally they do!!...so i go in...

they say... OK....your the patient is it???shreya singh???...only like some 3 times by 3 different people..mean while I'm standing there,watching a number of people in stretchers...being taken in and out of various door...and the very serious surgery fear begins to set in slowly...that's when the woman comes and says....okay madam you have to change....!!

Just to let you know the "fear" only lasted those 3 secs...lol....i go into this squarish room...all it has is a few wires hanging here and there and clothes hanging from it..in all directing I'm sorry let me correct my self....piles.....of clothes hanging from it.. and there are benches kept all around ...and its about 9 in the morning so all these nurses are sitting and drinking tea...she takes me to a corner where ..these 2 slightly fat nurses...actually no!!....these 2 VERY fat nurses sitting...and the lady says...OK madam change...into these garments...and please remove....EVERYTHING..!..so i say o..!!! everything!!??!!..shes like yes!! and she walks away...now i turn around to find like 30 women sitting and sipping tea and watching me change...yeah they could'nt care less..but still man!!...for the first time i actually felt..a little weird to change in front to people...generally i don't care..!!anyway...i couldn't do anything about it.i tried to do it as soon as possible...but of course..it seemed to take forever...i change into these really really loose....pyjamas and this weird over coat...which i had to keep hugging so it wouldn't open up in front..i walk out side feeling like a big light blue penguin....and my chiti comes and says...you look like those karate women and laughs....so I'm standing there waiting for more directions..and am surrounded by all these nurses and doctors and interns..all laughing around....cracking jokes..

This is where the scrubs effect comes in!!...im not kidding...it was just like the serial...i just thought it happens only TV but no!! this was how the whole ward was..!!they are all cracking jokes...and fooling around...and of course flirting..!!but the funny part was it wasn't the nurses who were flirting,it was the doctors flirting with the nurses....lol lol the only line from the show that kept ringing in my head was..when Dr.Cox tells the interns... EACH AND EVERYONE OF YOU ARE GOING TO ....KILL...A PATIENT!!!lol There is this other scene in the scrubs ....where Dr.Cox tells these interns ...ALL OF YOU SLAP YOUR FACES...ITS BEEN A HORRIBLE DAY!!and all these interns will mindlessly lift their hands and slap their faces...that's exactly how i felt these guys were when i was standing in my penguin suit..!!.....anyway so then they put me on a stretcher and this male nurse takes me into the operation theatre....

I feel like this total dead body lying on a stretcher,have these black belts strapped on,cant move and am covered with this white sheet till my neck....all i can see is the sealing...which is all stripped....so they take through like a million room ..and all the times...they keep banging the stretcher on the door to open it...!!??i don get it...y cant they just open the door!?? which reminds me of that friends dialogue...when chandlers toe is hurt and they take him to the hospital...and Ross says..."why do your guys keep doing that,that's where hes hurt!?severed toe..you just said it"lol anyway so we finally reach the operation theatre...

the only thing this room has is metal walls...and these big lights....its kind of freaky...and they just left me there and went away....man did i feel jobless and bored!!

so then this dude wearing this pink penguin suit walks in and says again... shreya singh!?
ahh yes i say(trying to look happy about it)...this dude seems to know some decent English and was smiling weirdly...a bunch of nurses walked and as usual the flirting began...that's when i was thinking man..flirting in tamil is so different...after about 10 minutes...all the nurses left the room and the the dude was just standing next to me waiting for the doctor to come as things were ready for the surgery.....

A few minutes passed...now you must know i have this....NEED to talk...i cant just be in a room for like hours and not say a word to the other person...so my so called internal alarms were going off...so i turned to the guy and said...how long more for the doctor to come???he said a few minutes...and then i asked the brilliant question...so your an intern here???.....he turned around and gave me the most pathetic look possible and said NO!! I'm a doctor here!!.....i believe my answer was a very weak.....OOOO.....yeah then it was back to feeling awkward and alarms going off again....this time i decided to just shut up...and wait for the doctor,in the metal room!the nurses then came back and the flirting began again...

The surgeon then arrived in great style....with a bunch of cham cha's around him,all of them dressed in green penguin suits and masks....came and made small talk with me and asked whether he could start ...so with everything ready he said okay...I'm just going to give you a small injection(and he said it twice)...and that's it...my heart stopped..O MY GOD NOT THE SMALL INJECTION!!!

Now everyone knows they are going to give you an injection but there is still a difference..when the doctor or nurses specifies and says ..o this wont hurt at all,its just a SMALL INJECTIONS...that's the killer one....other wise its just an injection...or half the time they wont even mention it and they ll just stick the needle into you and it wont hurt all that much....but anyway this was the case of the "small injection"(and that to he said it twice!!!)....and he pierced it right in the centre of my corn....!!!

MY GOD!! THE PAIN WAS EXCRUCIATING!!!AND WORSE WHEN HE INJECTED THE ANESTHESIA.......anyway was i squealed and moved a bit and that's when he had to start making small talk....again ...and i really couldn't say....o stop it please!!!i had to answer all the question... like where i lived and how i was related to my mom.....but anyway after a few minutes.....i felt just nothing at all..he whipped out the surgical knife and began the surgery...
and its a very very weird feeling..when hes cutting..you know he is..you can feel it but it doesn't hurt...its very different..and i must say its very satisfying in a weird way...he kept talking from time to time..while i lay on my side and stared at the metal wall...while a bunch of people were standing around my leg and were looking at it ....the surgery lasted about 20 minutes....after that my leg was wrapped up well..and the doc warned me that it would hurt after the anesthesia wares off and hes gave me tabs for the pain and gave instructions not to walk and ext ext...then i was wheeled away to the recover ward...where i was surrounded by all kinds of people who were out from serious surgeries...all of them had a million tubes into them and stuff...everyone in the room had oxygen masks ...BUT me!!!:-(...i cant tell how left out i felt..!!i really did..!!it was stupid i know!!...but i wanted a mask too...anyway at last they hooked some tube up to my finger,after that i did'nt feel that bad...saw the monitor for a some time and then slept blissfully for about 40 minutes..after which they realised,i was a normal patient in the ICU lol...so they wheeled me out.

Was handed my clothes and asked to change...again!!in front of the nurses..it was lunch so again the room was buzzing with nurses ...this time there wasn't even place for me to stand ...anyway i changed and tried to look as comfortable as possible during the process!!i even smiled at a few of them!!then i tried limping and walking at the same time and i could and it didnt hurt...only because the anesthesia was still acting and i couldn't feel a thing!...a few tests were done...my HB was 14...i sure felt healthy.. i was discharged..and off they sent me...now any any normal nurse/doctor/intern/ward attendant..whoever!!!would...atleast..atleast..... take the care of putting a patient in a wheel chair...especially if they have just had a surgery in their leg...(yes even if it was a small one)..but all they did was say...okay bye-bye and pushed us out of A6!!... so much for "good treatment"...

And now a day later...with out anesthesia......the pain....is horribleeeeeeeee!!!!but its okay at the end of the day IT WAS FUN!!!...and man did i learn a lot of things about expectations...and flirting in tamil ;-)