Backtracking 2 - HDU

Out of surgery I ended up in HDU, the high dependency unit. This is where they put you to make sure you survived surgery ok and don't have brain damage. So I ended up there with about 3 other people all in varying states of recovery.

Immediately after coming to I had a throbbing head ache, as you might expect. Plus lots of nausea resulting in me throwing up on myself a few times... Not my finest hour.

My family came to visit straight away and I was coherent enough to recognise and mess with them. Pranks after brain surgery are pretty low and I didn't have enough strength to really commit to it.

The other people in the HDU were much worse than me, thank god I had the surgery when I was young and tough. One guy thought it was 1989 and that he was in Christchurch. He kept trying to pull the drain out of his head, much to the annoyance of the nurses.
Another dude knew where and when he was but had obviously had a stroke or something and couldn't tell if his left hand was his or someone elses. Plus he couldn't work out how to use the nurse call button and would just shout until someone came and told him it was his own hand he was hitting.
Hospital is the worst place to recover.

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