Experiencing double inpatient surgeries
Despite being in my mid-80s, I have consecutively been hospitalized at the Korea University Anam Hospital (KUAH) over two-year interval for the first time in my lifetime. One was a conventional urology surgery where a cystoscopy tumor was detected. The other was thyroid surgery to check the diameter of a tumor attached to my left adrenal gland to determine whether it was benign or malignant. The…
At the age of 84, I underwent two consecutive hospital stays at the Korea University Anam Hospital (KUAH) for the first time in my life. The first surgery was a routine urology procedure to remove a cystoscopy tumor from my urinary bladder, performed on July 12, 2024. This operation lasted for an hour and I remained in the hospital for five days.
This date coincidentally fell just before the assassination attempt on then presidential candidate Donald Trump in Butler, Pennsylvania. The second surgery was a more complex thyroid operation, done on August 28, 2026, to assess the size of a tumor attached to my left adrenal gland. The aim was to determine if it was benign or malignant.
This procedure took three hours and I spent a week in the hospital afterward. During my extended stays, I was able to catch up on world events, including the flash flood disaster in Nepal that occurred two days after the second surgery.
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