Simple Swedish Podcast - SSP #225 - Jag har opererats (svår)

Episode Date: May 8, 2024

Nivå: B1-B2 Här kommer ett avsnitt där jag pratar i mer vanlig takt. Jag berättar om operationen jag hade nyligen. Det var första gången jag opererades och jag pratar om vad som hände både före, under och efter operationen.  ------------------- För att stödja podden och få transkript till avsnitten - bli patron för bara 5€ per månad – klicka här! Vill du lära dig att prata flytande svenska? Är du frustrerad att svenskar alltid byter till engelska? Kolla in den här GRATIS videon och du kommer förstå exakt vad du behöver göra! Följ den här länken och klicka på ”join the free training”. Instagram: swedish.linguist YouTube: Swedish Linguist Website: www.swedishlinguist.com Language Lock-in: https://www.languagelockin.com/ ------------------- Ett smakprov (sample) på transkriptet: Hej där! Välkommen till Simple Swedish Podcast. Och idag blir det ett lite snabbare avsnitt. Så jag kommer prata ungefär som vanligt i det här avsnittet. Så om du har svårt att hänga med så rekommenderar jag att bli patron. För då får du transkript till alla avsnitt. Och du kan lätt följa med i vad jag säger, och du kan se alla ord. Och du får också några specifika extra svåra ord översatta och förklarade i transkriptet. Så gå till wwwpatreon.com/swedishlinguist om du vill bli patron och få transkript och stödja podden. Och om du blir Patreon på 10-euronivån får du också extra avsnitt varje månad och tillgång till chattrummet på Discord, där du kan skriva med mig och alla andra. Och några som har blivit patron nyligen, det är Jaki, Franz, Subin, Danny, Yvonne, Rabia, Peter och François. Så tack tack till er för att ni stödjer den här podden. Det gläder mig mycket.   Så idag ska jag prata om en liten episod ur mitt liv som hände väldigt nyligen.   Och det är att jag gjorde en operation. Så jag har gått igenom en operation. Så jag tänkte att jag ska prata lite om det. Vad som hände och hur det var, och så. Och jag tror att ni kommer lära er några nya ord från det också. Så jag har opererats för bråck. Det heter bråck på svenska.   Det heter “hernia” på engelska och “hernia” på spanska. Så om det är någon som..det kanske man känner igen på sitt språk. Jag visste faktiskt inte vad det här var förut. ....för att läsa hela transkriptet till detta och alla andra avsnitt, klicka här!

Welcome to Simple Swedish Podcast! Today it's going to be a bit of a faster episode. I'm going to talk as usual in this episode. If you have trouble keeping up, I recommend you become a patron. Then you'll get transcripts for all episodes and you can easily follow along in what I say and you can see all the words and you also get some specific, extra difficult words translated and them in the transcript. So go to patreon.com slash Swedish Linguist if you want to become a patron and get a transcript and support the pod. And if you become a patron on the 10 euro level, you will also

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Today I'm going to talk about a little episode from my life that happened very recently. And that is that I had an operation. So I've did an operation. So, yes, I have gone through an operation and, yes, so I thought I should talk a little about that, what happened and how it was and so on. And I think you will learn some new words from that as well. So, I have been operated for a broken Swedish name. It's called broken in Swedish, it's called hernia in English and ernea in Spanish.

So if there's someone who knows that in their language. I didn't actually know what this was before. So I had to google and read what a brachycephalus is. And that is brachycephalus. I had the lumbar brachycephalus, the brachycephalus in the lumbar. And the lumbar is the area between the belly and the leg, or between the belly and the leg. The belly is the lower part of the belly. And the gluteus is the area between the leg and the belly. And there, there has been a little hole in the belly wall.

And then it can bulge out a little bit. So it's that... Yeah, something from inside is kind of pushed out through this hole. So I discovered, like, it might have been... It's almost five months ago maybe? Five, six months ago that I discovered a lump there.

It bulged out a bit. I had no idea what it was. A lump is something hard, or something with an undefined shape under the skin, you know. And if you discover a bump under the skin, then you know that you should check what it is with a doctor. So, I actually didn't even have a health insurance. So the first thing I did was to sign a health insurance here in Spain. As they say, you sign an insurance.

So I got a health insurance. I didn't even know... I've never been to the hospital here in Spain. And I've never been to the hospital so many times in my life. So I'm very green about what to do. Being green means that you're a beginner, you know anything. So I was very keen on how to do it if you need to meet a doctor. Luckily I had a friend who could help me with that. She said I should sign up for a health insurance.

She recommended a health hospital to me. And then I found a hospital close to where I lived. I went there and said that I had discovered a bump here. And she examined it. She couldn't find anything special, she didn't think it was anything. She said, okay, this is probably nothing. Come back in two weeks and we'll see if it has changed. And I thought, okay, then it's fine.

But my friend thought I should go to a real hospital. She recommended a hospital that she that I should go to. It was hard to know how to book a time. I had to choose a specific type of doctor to book time with. I had no idea what kind of doctor I needed to book time with. But I thought, okay, if it's a bump under the skin, maybe I need to check with a surgeon. And so I booked time with a surgeon. And a surgeon is a person who operates people. It means that you cut into people and fix something in the body.

It's surgery. A surgeon is a person who works with surgery to operate on people. So I booked a time with a surgeon and then I got there and she kind of looked there and felt a little in like five seconds and then she said, this is a break and okay, we're going to book you for an operation and I was like, what? I've never had an operation and I was like, what? I've never had an operation before. And she started talking about the operation after like 10 seconds and I was like, shit, this went fast. But I thought, okay, I guess I'll have to get operated then. So we booked an operation, a time for the operation.

And then it was maybe a month later, maybe one or two months. And that was a week ago. So I had that operation a little over a week ago. So I had that surgery a little over a week ago. And a week or two weeks before that, I was quite anxious about this surgery. I didn't really understand why. I personally hadn't heard about Brock before, but many people I talked to said that this was a pretty common operation. And when I googled it, it's pretty standard procedure. But I felt like I was quite anxious before this operation. I didn't really know why, but I realized that first and foremost, it's something unknown. It's something I've never done before.

But above all, it's that you... You need to be subdued. To be subdued is that you get narcosis, so that you fall asleep, so called general anesthesia, but most often you say it in Swedish, narcosis, so the doctors are seducing you with narcosis, so that you just fall asleep, you are seduced during the whole operation, so that you are not aware. You are unconscious during the operation. And that is actually quite scary.

Because you just leave your body to people you've never met, that you don't know, and they are going to cut you up and fix something inside your body. And that's pretty crazy when you think about it. You just leave your body, here's my body, do what you're supposed to do. So I thought that must be what makes me feel anxious about this. It was a bit difficult for me to focus well on things a week or two before that. The day came and I had to fast for six hours. Fasting means that you don't eat or drink anything.

So six hours before the operation. I got there and I had to wait in a room. I had to change into these hospital clothes and then I had to lie there in this hospital bed and wait there for a few hours. And... But everyone was very nice. And then a doctor came and drove me into the bed.

So I was lying in the bed and then they drove me into the bed, so I was lying in the bed. And they drove me into the bed, into the elevator, up to the operations department. And I thought it was a bit funny that I was lying in the bed and got hugged in the bed before the operation. I understand that after the operation you shouldn't walk, in the bed before the surgery. I understand that after the surgery you shouldn't walk, but I thought it was fun to be there and be driven to the operating room. And there I felt a little like I was in a hospital series.

You've seen many series on TV shows that are broadcasted in hospitals. And you see hospital staff and doctors walking around in their doctors' clothes. And all kinds of devices and machines and stuff. So that was an interesting experience. The surgeon came and greeted me. And he seemed to be a nice guy. I got a very safe impression. I was very grateful for that.

He came there and was a bit joked, very serious and relaxed. So that felt really good actually. Even though it was of course nerve-racking. And then I had to go in and lie down on the operating table and then you get the drug directly into the catheter in your arm. Because they put in a catheter, a so-called vein catheter, which I have learned with a new word actually, in the arm so that they can just connect in different medicines and for example this sleeping pill that they just connect in and then The blood is directly in the blood.

And I have no memory of that. I don't even remember that I started to get sleepy. I remember that I lay down on the operating table. It's also a bit sick when you just come into a room, there's a table in the middle, and there's a bunch of doctors around, and they're supposed to do their job on your body. And then you go there, and you lie down there, and there's a bunch of lamps over you, and then you lie down there, and then they just connect the drug into the catheter and then you don't remember anything after that. The next thing you remember is that you wake up on the way into this room again.

You get your own room. So I woke up in that room, and you're a bit groggy. Being groggy means that you're quite confused. Just when you wake up from a drug, you're groggy. You're like, ehh, you don't really know where you are. You talk a little sluggishly, ehh. You're a little groggy. And then you have a band there, where they have operated. They have scraped it up and done their thing. They have repaired the hole in the belly wall with a kind of net.

They have put in a plastic, to repair this hole. I didn't have any pain, but of course I've had a lot of pain relieving. Pain relieving is a medicine that relieves pain, simply put. You don't feel pain. that you don't feel pain. So... And after this operation, I would continue to take pain relievers for a few days, or a week or something like that. And I got some food,

and then I spent one night there, at the hospital. And yes, it was quite un-dramatical. un-dramatic. I was there. Luckily, it was nice that I had company there with me. So I didn't have to be... I had a person who came with me who made me a company there over the night. So that was also very grateful for that. A person who is close to me.

And then after the surgery, the day after I got to come home. operation. So, ja, dagen efter så fick jag ju då komma hem. Så vi tog en taxi hem till mig. Och jag spenderade väl de större delen av tiden i sängen första dagen. Men jag måtte ganska bra. Jag trodde att jag skulle vara mer utslagen. Jag trodde att det skulle vara svårare att typ I thought it would be harder to move and walk and stuff like that. But it went well to walk, it went well to move. It's just that I couldn't use my stomach muscles that much of course. And I can't train for a month afterwards. The first month after the surgery I didn't have to do any kind of intensive physical activity.

No training and I didn't lift heavy things either. The only complication, or the only thing that was difficult afterwards was that I got a ban. So banning means that you have difficulty in just peeing. So this podcast is not meant to be a joke. So we talk about words that you might not want to listen to, but it can be important to learn those words as well. To be stopped, to have a stop, means that you have a hard time getting the terminal content out, simply. And that is clearly due to, partly due to the drug, but also due to the operation itself. But yes, that

solved itself after a few days at least. And now, after about a week, I'm working quite normally. So I was even out and met my friends a little bit yesterday. So the only thing that is, is that I shouldn't drink alcohol and stuff like that. And I shouldn't train, but I shouldn't... I shouldn't... What should I say? I'm going to make sure that I don't use these muscles around the wound. But yeah, that was it with my first surgery. I'm glad it went well and and it was quite un-dramatical.

I thought I would have wanted some kind of recording from the operation itself. I know it would be quite un-nice to watch when they cut it up and stuff, but I realized it would be really interesting to have seen how it looked. Because I was completely gone, I was completely unconscious during the operation. So they have done something on my body that I wasn't aware of. And I felt that it would be fun to see that, to know what it was, how it went. I don't know why, but I just felt some kind of curiosity. That this would be fun to see. So that was about my surgery. As I said, it was nice that it went very well.

Now there is only recovery left so I can start training again after three weeks or something. And I also want to say that before our summer bootcamp, the bootcamp that is now in summer, 16th to 25th of August, we have just received a couple of new people who have registered for it. So now there are very few places left for that bootcamp. So if you are interested in this bootcamp for the summer, you have to contact us now to take one of these last places. So go to languagelockin.com

and there you can read more and register for this. We also have the winter bootcamp. It's also open, so if that works better for you. And it's also summer and winter, they are quite different experiences. Both are very special, very cool experiences, but in completely different ways. And this bootcamp, for you who have learned Swedish for a while, and you can speak Swedish, but you may feel that when you speak with Swedes, it is very difficult to stay in the Swedish language. The Swedes might switch to English, or you might think that it's just so much easier to speak English. So it's very difficult for you to really stay in the Swedish language.

Then this is perfect for you, because you are forced to only speak Swedish in these nine days. We do lots of fun activities, we have lots of lessons. We invite different people to this villa, this house. It's a fantastic house. When I first came into this house, I just felt like, wow. It's an really cool house. Especially for me, because this bootcamp is happening in the Dalarna.

And I have roots in the Dalarna. So my grandfather is from the Dalarna and we still have a house in the Dalarna. And there's a very special style in the interior and in the house and stuff. And this villa really has the valley style. So that's really cool and it's a very, very beautiful house. So a super intense experience for you who really want to force yourself to just speak Swedish and really get the Swedish language into your life and into yourself. So yes, we also have a free training on our website that you can find if you go to languagelockin.com. That was that.

So that was that. That was that. Yes, that was that. Thanks for listening and have a good one. See you again next week. Bye!