Awakening From Surgery Poem by Kim Barney

Based on a true experience, except that the way it really happened was that I was too groggy to realize what was happening until it was too late.
It was actually a male nurse, not a doctor, who asked 'Nao tem vontade de urinar? ' (Don't you feel like urinating?)When I answered in the negative, suddenly my urinary tract was being violated by a catheter that was probably too large.
Had I known in advance what to expect I would have said, 'Yes, I need to go. Help me into the bathroom.'
The reason my thigh also hurt as well as my hand was because I had had skin taken from my thigh and grafted onto my hand.

See my related poems BIG BANG MEMORY and SKIN GRAFTING.

Written 06 December 2014
Recife, Pernambuco, Brasil