Quarta-feira. 13:00h. Dei entrada no hospital. Tiraram minha pressão. Andei até o andar cirúrgico. Retirei todos os meus acessórios. Coloquei a bata. E fui caminhando até a sala de operação. Como tenho assistido Grey's Anatomy, juro que me senti num dos episódios. As portas abrem com um botão que fica quase nonível do chão e é aberto com o pé.
Colocaram os sensores no meu corpo:respiração, pressão e batimento cardíaco. A primeira cidadã tentou duas vezes colocar o gelcro na minha veia, mas falhou (depois de remexer lá dentro). A outra veio, achou minha veia e enfiou o treco tão rápido que num deu nem tempo de doer direito. Aí fiquei eu lá pensando: seriam elas interns ou residents?? (sei o nome em português naum)... viagem de Grey's. AIUhaiua...
Cobriram meu corpo com um lençol pra me aquecer. Deram anestesia local. O restante foi o médico falando cada passo dado, explicando tudo que estava fazendo e me perguntando sempre se estava doendo em algum lugar. Ele foi bem atencioso e eu senti MUITA segurança no hospital e nos procedimentos feitos. "Finalmente um lugar decente!!"
Durante a operação eu me concentrei no meu batimento cardíaco, pra manter a calma e ficar tranquila. Ao término, tiraram minha pressão novamente. Ele prescreveu antibiótico oral e local (vou começar a trocar o curativo hoje), além de dois remédios pra proteger o estômago e o intestino. Semana que vem retiram os pontos e sai o resultado da patologia (que vai examinar o troço que tava dentro do meu braço). Agora é descançar e cuidar bem do sono e da alimentação. Não tenho sentido muita dor.
Tô bem!!
PS: o exame de sangue e de tempo de coagulação deram normais... e o resultado da patologia também (nada maligno pra se preocupar).
I went to the hospital today and the doctor said that my arm is with an infection. The pain is coming back, I'm feeling very sleepy and with a big headache. He prescribed me other antibiotic but I'm scared.
(sorry... but I'm writing here in english for my friends here and also to protect my son, that reads this blog)
I spoke with a friend these days, he's a doctor from Iraq, and explained why I felt THAT MUCH pain during the second surgery. Because of the infection the local anesthesia did not work properly, so I felt almost everything he was doing (as with no anesthesia). Why the doctor didn't gave me a stronger anesthesia?? Because this is Japan. Why the doctor didn't knock me out and make me sleep or something?? Because this is Japan.
But... I have some good news. My arm is better. I still can't really move it and it still hurts a bit, but at least it's less swollen and now I can finally sleep. On the next tuesday I'll go to the hospital again to see the doctor that made the second surgery. Wish me luck... I really hope everything is going to be ok.
Hey everyone!!! First of all thank you very much for the support you all have been giving to me these days. Without you I couldn't go through something like this. It's being very painful and difficult. I'll explain what happened first, then all say how I am now.
The beggining
One day after my birthday, on august 19th, I saw a little "ball" inside my armpit. The first thing I thought was "maybe it's an acne or a little fur that got inflamed". So I decided to keep an eye on it. On the weekend, days 21 and 22 of august, while a was camping in Wakayama, the "ball" was growing and hurting. As soon as I came back to Osaka I asked some friends (one of them is a doctor) about what it could be. He told me that it was a kind of boil (furuncle) and in some time it would burst. Unfortunately it didn't and was got worst, so I asked my father's wife (that is a doctor) and she said that I could take some anti-inflammatories, but if it didn't reduce the size then I should go to the hospital. 
The Surgery
Thursday, august 27, the pain got worst and I saw that my arm was also swollen and the "ball" was expanding to my arm. So I decided to go to the hospital at friday morning. Tommy (australia) and Ahmad (lebanon) went there with me and the doctor said that I had an infectious atheroma and he needed to make a little surgery to extract it. I went to the surgery table and he gave me 6 big injections of anesthesia, my pressure started to get very very low and he didn't do anything about it. I called for Tommy and he brought me some salt (that was inside my purse) and stood there with me during the whole surgery. He tried so hard to make me feel better and calm down. Thank you very much for that.
The doctor stitched my arm using metal rings and said that in one week I would have to go back there to take them out. 10 min after the operation the doctor said that I could go home. I asked for medicine and he said that I wouldn't need it. I asked again, for pain killers, and he said that the pain would be very low. So... he didn't gave me anything. After some hours the pain was very strong and Tommy came with some ice and paracetamol for me... he stood here taking care of me for the whole afternoon. At the beginning of the night it started bleeding and was hurting too much, so I went to the hospital again (that was already closing) with Adrianna (poland) and the director of the dormitory. They changed the bandages and that was all. The doctor said that he couldn't prescribe me any antibiotic because he didn't made the operation (bullshit) and told me to go back there on the next morning. When I asked about painkillers the nurse told me that they only had aspirin (that is NOT recommended after a surgery) and I'm allergic to it. Then she said: "this medicine here only has 10% of aspirin, you can try". DO YOU BELIEVE ON THAT??? Of course I refused it and we went back home. I only got through the first night because of Edlira (albania) that gave me a very strong pain killer that she had (here in Japan you can't buy painkillers in the pharmacy without a doctor prescription).
The First Days after
Saturday morning, august 29th, I was there again, with Ahmad and Adrianna. Another doctor talked with me and prescribed FINALLY antibiotics and painkillers. They also changed the bandage again. The weekend was tuff. I couldn't move my right arm (hurts too much), couldn't sleep (because of the pain (even with the painkillers), couldn't even feed myself with the left hand (that also was making the right arm hurt). Adrianna, Hana (vietnam), Por (thailand) and Ahmad were making food for me and feeding me... and bringing water and juice and fruits... and helping me with every little thing I needed. The strange thing is that the pain wasn't going away (sometimes it seemed to get even worst) and yesterday my right arm was swollen again. The night was very bad... the pain was strong even with Eda's painkiller (the strong one) and I was afraid of what they did to my arm. Nic (new zeland) tried to calm me down and make me think about other things... but I knew that I had to go to the hospital again and see what was going on...
The Second Surgery
today. september 1st. things are getting worst. I went to the hospital again but, this time, a doctor from the University Hospital was there and talked with so much care and concern. He explained that probably the infection from the lymphs was making the arm swollen. Then he took off the bandage, looked at the stitches and said that I have a infection inside and he has to open it again and remove the infection. there i was again. looking to those big lights above me and that dead ceiling again. I never felt so much pain in my whole life as I did today. Adrianna was with me during the surgery.. and there we discovered that the infection was serious, that I could loose some movements of my arm if I didn't had the second surgery and that the first doctor did a mess inside my arm. i never thought i would cry so much because of pain. he tried. he gave me a lot of local anesthesia. but.. the pain. the tears. the ceiling. After the surgery he gave me intra vein antibiotics, prescribed me painkillers and antibiotic for the next 5 days and explained every single detail of what happened. He said that probably the nodule (caused by the infectious atheroma) wasn't malignant (but we'll never know because the first doctor didn't send it for pathologic exams). During the surgery he took out all the metal rings (that he only could find following my screams of pain), took off the infection and the necrosed tissue, put a drain inside my skin to try to block the infection and closed the incision with absorptive stitches (13 stitches). I'll have to go to the hospital every 1 day, for them to clean and look if it the infection is not starting again.
Now I'm in my room... very sleepy... but trying to write this for you.. all of you..
I really hope things will get better...
And again.. thank you for all the support and help... I really feel blessed to have such good friends.
PS: Yes we pay for insurance here in Japan, but we still have to pay for everything in the hospital and every visit. Till now I payed around $200,00 american dollars.
PS2: I'll try to give you more news as soon as possible.
Uma semana de gripe suina se passou e estamos em 300 casos (ja com casos em Kyoto, Minoh e Tokyo, alem de Osaka e Kobe). No entanto, a Universidade de Osaka resolveu reabrir. Nao me pecam pra explicar, que num entendi foi nada: fecham com 15 casos e reabrem com 300. Mas minha amiga dinamarquesa, Liv, leu em algum canto que eles perceberam que eh apenas uma gripe mais forte (ao menos aqui), nao causando o obito de ninguem. Incusive as pessoas com os sintomas nao estao mais ficando de quarentena (procedimento inicial), podendo voltar pra casa de trem mesmo, por exemplo (obvio que usando mascara). Nao sei se a informacao procede, mas foi o que Liv contou.
De todo jeito... todo mundo tem usado mascaras em lugares fechados. De todo jeito tambem... essa gripe vai se espalhar muito ainda.
E.. de todo jeito de novo... minhas aulas recomecam amanha!! EBAAAAAAA!!! Esse descanco foi muito bem vindo, mas ta bom, ne?? Vamo brincar de sair de casa um pouco... e ter aulas de japones... e voltar ao ritmo!!! A-HA! =D
PS: Esse que ta na foto comigo eh Mauricio, um paulista SUPER engracado e gente boa que mora no dormitorio ao lado do meu, aqui em Minoh.
A universidade acaba de anunciar que sera fechada por uma semana, pois foram detectados nove casos de contaminacao de gripe suina no distrito de Ibaraki (uma cidade vizinha a Minoh, onde estou), incluso um estudante que nao saiu do Japao. O que faz deste o primeiro caso oficial de contaminacao interna no pais (ja que existem outros casos de pessoas que estiveram no Canada ou Mexico).
Estamos de quarentena!! =p
PS: putz... quem disse que estoquei comida?? Se o supermercado fechar eu to fudida.
PS2: pra nao ficar parecendo exagero... outros oito casos foram confirmados na cidade de Kobe (a apenas 20min de onde estou), entao as prefeituras de Osaka e Kobe irao tomar as devidas providencias pra tentar impedir uma epidemia. Noticia oficial aqui.
PS3: num sei como vai funcionar isso nao... deixa a semana transcorrer pra eu poder dizer alguma coisa.