III.28 Writing journal (A story from your childhood)

01/12/2019 - 2:14 pm to 2:38 pm - Writing diary number 28.

       I have many minor stories to tell about my childhood, but if I have to choose one, it may be the time I was operated on for vegetation. It's not a happy memory of course, but it's something about my childhood that marked me, so it could be a good story to tell about this period that seems very distant to me. I would like to start at the beginning of the story, when I was maybe 4 or 5 years old, I had really often earaches. I could have up to two earaches in the same week, and then there were all the ENT infections. It wasn’t an easy period, so my parents decided to bring me to a doctor. This doctor said that it could help me for the future to practice an vegetation intervention. Therefore, on November if I remember well, I go to the hospital of my city. I remember missing school and waiting in the waiting room with my mother, who reassured me by telling me how the flowers that were used as decoration in the hospital grew. It wasn't necessarily exciting, but it kept me busy and avoided me thinking about the future operation. After that, when it was the time for my operation, I remember only one details. I was on the operating table, and then the anaesthesiologist told me to count to three, he counted with me and before the third I was asleep and didn't feel anything. When my eyes have opened up again, I saw my mother near my hospital bed. And I don’t know if it’s true or if it’s just my imagination, but I remind that I cried, not because of the suffering, but just because I was stressful to see me in a hospital bed for the first time of my life. Nevertheless, I knew that all my family was there for me and to help me for get back in good health. It's surprising me, to remember as well some details of this old story. I hope that all children who will have to have surgery in the future, for this or more serious things, will have as good operating conditions and a memory of it that is more intriguing than painful. I even believe that I got a gift by my family afterwards because I was very courageous during the operation.