I have been in Medan since May 15, 2007.
Prof. A has another tumor surgery, so I’m bringing Selector with me.
The flight was alright, I use Sriwijaya Air.
This time I went alone. Boss wouldn’t permit Arie to come along, well…it’s OK, I can manage. I’m always the strong girl
MAY 15, 2007
The work:
Delivered Selector to hospital and explained to O.R. nurses how to assemble and disassemble the handpiece. It’s important because I won’t have a colleague to help me. I needed them to be my help.
The pleasure:
Went to my auntie’s house after finished the work at hospital. I have much spare time to spent. She’s just done Umrah last month. She and her youngest daughter went to Jakarta for 2 months but I couldn’t meet them due to travel schedule.
With Tia, my cousin, we went to Fountaine ice cream cafe at Carrefour. I had burger (cos I haven’t had my lunch yet, it was 3 pm!) and 5-flavor ice cream. I bought some fruits for my auntie and donuts for my grandma.
I was so curious of Medan’s es campur (mixed ice drink). It’s different from what we have in Jakarta. So I asked Tia if she knew the good place of es campur. She brought me to this place. We ordered Mie Kocok and Es Campur, quite expensive: Rp 19,000 total. Power suddenly off when we were having them, but only for 3 minutes, then power was on again. We took becak to get home, it started to rain, 7 pm.
MAY 16, 2007
The work:
Arrived in the hospital at 10 am because the nurse informed me surgery will be at 11 am. Then I found out, schedule has changed, it would be at 1 pm. Waited for 3 hours. Surgery started at 2 pm, finished 5.30 pm.
Meningioma was so big, it was 1/4 of the brain. I have the picture. I’ll post it later here. It was very big, Prof. A used his finger to separate it from the brain. No need Selector!

The tumor!
Wow, that was my first experience seeing that kind of procedure.
Hmmm, a request from him: I to stay with Selector because he’d have another tumor surgery on Friday. Oh God! How should I tell Ms. S from MK Hospital? Damn!
Asked my boss’ approval for this. I needed his help to contact Dr.J!
This also meant I had to re-schedule my flight.
The pleasure:
Started raining when I was on the taxi, on my way back home. Then I suddenly had the thought. Decided to go to this place: a food stall "Ojo Lali Boiled Muscle", near Advent Hospital. You can’t miss these: a portion of boiled muscles with peanut and pineapple sauce, a portion of squid fried kwe tiaw, and a glass of terong belanda juice. Yummeeee…………
I went home with a full stomach. Still raining. I didn’t bring my sweater, weather was cold.