Monday, April 22, 2013
Filling out forms!! Blah!
I love how at French hospitals you have to do admission a few days before you are actually required to be at the hospital.
So on Friday the 14th after seeing Dr Sokoloff (a.k.a. the French-Russian anaesthetist with the cool bicycle :-)), we went off to Clinique Bizet to fill out forms. Soooo much fun (ha ha). Although I got to have hot chocolate while waiting, and French hot chocolate is a-ma-zing.
Ooooh I forgot to say my cousin came with us to Paris this time, so he was also drinking hot chocolate with me and borrowing my DS. And asking all about having operations, but that was fine, because he's never actually had surgery, but seen me go through quite a few. However he has been to casualty many times, including for swallowing mothballs!
I got a private ward again Woot! Although Dr Firmin's PA always books them for her patients.
After the hospital, we went to check out the lights at Champs Élysées which was amazing, but deserves its own post!
Madame Moola
I should probably explain the whole Madame Moola thing. At the hospital they kept referring to me as Madame Moola, which in English translates to Mrs Moola. It sounds a lot better in French right? So as a joke I decided to use it as my login name for all my accounts because it sounds cool!
The funny thing though is that on my script for my TTOs (take home meds) my doctor wrote Enfant Moola which translated to english basically means CHILD Moola! Lovely, considering I was 19 at the time!!!!
The funny thing though is that on my script for my TTOs (take home meds) my doctor wrote Enfant Moola which translated to english basically means CHILD Moola! Lovely, considering I was 19 at the time!!!!
Arriving in Paris
My second op was scheduled for the 17th of December, so we got to be in Paris during their winter.
It was COLD!!!!!! When I say cold, I don't mean Joburg cold I mean 5 degrees cold! Thank goodness for K-Way 3 in 1 jackets!
Unfortunately there was no snow. I'm sure snow would have made it a lot colder, but it would have been so pretty!
In Paris, people seem to start working later during winter, so we only got to see Dr Firmin at 18:00 on the Thursday we arrived, eish!
The Goal of my second op was to separate my ear from the side of my skull, as well as create an earlobe.
The earlobe is usually created during the first op, but I had A LOT of scar tissue that Dr Firmin had to deal with, so she decided to leave it until the second op.
It was COLD!!!!!! When I say cold, I don't mean Joburg cold I mean 5 degrees cold! Thank goodness for K-Way 3 in 1 jackets!
Unfortunately there was no snow. I'm sure snow would have made it a lot colder, but it would have been so pretty!
In Paris, people seem to start working later during winter, so we only got to see Dr Firmin at 18:00 on the Thursday we arrived, eish!
The Goal of my second op was to separate my ear from the side of my skull, as well as create an earlobe.
The earlobe is usually created during the first op, but I had A LOT of scar tissue that Dr Firmin had to deal with, so she decided to leave it until the second op.
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