Today I had surgery. The wheeled me down to the operating room at exactly 9:30am on the dot but then there I laid all strapped down while they went over and over again regarding my x-rays. A bit nerve-racking, to say the least.
While laying there I let my mind wandered but then I spotted what appeared to be blood splatters on the ceiling, then my mind really wandered. "You better not give me some kind of Michael Jackson nose!" I told a male nurse.
I was out cold for the surgery but was disappointed to note that I didn't get the so-called laughing gas. Instead, a nurse gave me a shot of something via the iv tube that was already connected to me. I felt a coolness creeping up my arm and then everything started to sound like it was all so distant. I remember a ringing in my ears and trying to fight it by talking to the nurse.
Later on I woke up back in my hospital room -- back with Snickers by my side. My nose was all bandaged up to the point where anything I drank or ate for the next day was dipped into by my nose. Straws became a necessary item but no one seemed to have one so I ended up sporting coffee and whatnot on my bandages on a daily bases... hahaha.
As the story has it, one day I headed to the opposite side of the globe – the Flipside. I arrived in Korea February 16th, 2005 and thought I’d do a year, then leave. I was wrong. I stayed, launched my first company, Flipside Fitness, and then opened Korea's largest boxing club, Hulk's Boxing (now called Hulk's Club).
After 11.5yrs in Korea, I then picked up one day and returned to Toronto, Canada. But then I left again.
Now I live in the Philippines where I am the CEO and head coach of Empowered Clubhouse, the Philippines' first and only boxing clubhouse exclusively just for women. I also am the founder of the Lil' Sistas Project, CEO and designer of Slay Gear and Baa Baa Black Sheep .Ph.
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