My wife has surgery to finally fix the last bit of her shoulder coming up in a couple of weeks. To be honest it is a little daunting to me having been there for her previous surgeries. I know she has it worse since she has to actually have the surgery but all I can think about is remembering how it felt when those other surgeries happened.
During it you are sitting there in the waiting room, completely unaware of what is going on, knowing that the person you love is currently lying unconscious on a table being cut up. Then when you finally get to see them in the recovery room, hooked up to machines and in obvious pain you get faint and feel the shakes. You see this person you love in obvious physical distress and your body reacts physically to the purely emotional response you have. It is such a strong feeling that you are physically affected by it.
it's actually worse on the waiter i'd imagine, the patient feels nothing during the op, and doesn't remember anything about it afterwards either...so they don't have hours of nerves to overcome.
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