I was really nervous on my way there, I was booked in to stay over at First Trust Hospital and arrived 15 minutes late (8:45am) (oops!!) First impressions were everything you could want, lovely building very clean looking. I was greeted by a lovely bubbly nurse she showed me to my room, asked me to pop my gown on, paper knickers, stockings and give a urine sample (pregnancy test). I then came out sat on my bed read a magazine, 15 minutes later it was like rush hour I had Mr Traynor come in and draw on me, this was when he told me I was his first of the day, a wave of nerves and excitement rushed over me. I said goodbye and off he went. Next in came the anesthetist and put my catheter in my hand, think that was the worst part of the day, I’m not a fan of needles ( haha who is though?!) then I had a few more visits from nurses and doctors doing blood pressure, checking heart beat and temperature. 10am a nurse arrived and told me it was time to go I had my slippers on and dressing gown for my walk down to theatre, it was so tempting to not say “walking the mile” in an American accent, that may be my warped sense of humour. I went into the theatre though not the theatre, there were no implants or knives in sight to my delight. The nurse applied monitors to my back then I lay down, in came the anesthetist who started lifting my arms up and stuff I was lying there saying put me asleep, put my asleep now hahaha, I felt quite a hard push on my catheter and then they told me we’re taking you into theatre now as the bed started moving I felt my face and throat starting to go numb and that’s it I can’t remember waking up in the recovery room, I just remember being put in my bed then shouting “GET MY PHONE GET MY PHONE!!” And immediately started taking pictures, this was 11:30am (very quick!) . I felt like I was drunk and everything was hilarious, I drank a tonne of water because my mouth was so dry and I had virtually no pain just a bit achy where my incisions are. I had a cup of tea and some toast and text and sent pictures to all my friends and female family and of course made a post on here. By 2pm I decided I would go home not stay overnight, so I had the catheters removed, everything was ran through with me dos and donts, I was given my meds and I was on my way home at 3pm. It’s now 5pm I haven’t had any pain relief and I feel fine, I’m on the couch with my mum looking after me, and I am just over the moon, best day of my life!