See you on the flip side

When he came to, he wasn’t sure if the operation was done. He could see a humongous bandage with a Robocop like leg brace on left leg but he still persisted asking the nurse if it is over. And each time she confirmed the procedure was done, he felt less convinced.

Eventually, he recalled the white circular lights in the anesthesia room as he lay on his back three hours earlier that day. Presently, The nurse kept saying something to which he muttered a useless reply. Feeling completely lost, he managed to gulp down some apple juice and crunch some crackers. Ah! Those crackers felt heavenly.

Then the nausea started which was promptly taken care of a magic shot in his veins. He then conked out again. Only to wake up an hour later, feeling a tad better but more awake. This time he could feel a foreign object in his left leg. So, he said to himself, this is finally done.

Morphine supposedly is the answer to all orthopedic surgeries. While he agreed with this, his sense of humor showed no promise when he thought of this joke on the ride back home.

“What did one knee say to the other after an ACL reconstruction?”
“Are you feeling a(knee) better?”

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