On Baby A's birthday, the c-section surgery went as planned. I walked into the OR around 9:30am and was pushed out around 2 hours later. W was instructed to wait outside while the team was getting me prepared for anesthesia. He then got invited to come in and sat next to me while the team worked on getting Baby A out of me 😂. W was a good DJ and Baby A was born while Taylor Swift's Shake It Off was being played. So...did I feel any pain during this life-changing surgery? No, I didn't. I had a spinal block. I never felt any type of pain during the surgery. Getting the anesthesia injected - however - was the most uncomfortable part of the surgery. There was a lot of pressure. I felt my back being pulled or pushed, or something. It just felt very uncomfortable, not painful, but very uncomfortable. It was also hard to try leaning toward the source of that uncomfortableness. Learning to relax while being uncomfortable was a very hard thing to do. But it was necessary. Once it...
12/8/2018. We took a train to Busan from Seoul Station. At the time this was the second day I was off from the prescriptions (antibiotics etc) and was feeling a lot better than before. I was excited to go check out another city of Korea. W was also excited to ride KTX (high speed rail). Riding the KTX & spending a few days in Busan was supposed to be a highlight of our honeymoon in Japan and Korea in 2015. We canceled the entire Korea trip on the day of flight to Japan due to MERS outbreaks in Korea (the plan was to go to Japan first, then fly to Busan, Korea from Osaka, Japan, then back to the states from Incheon). I still remember that day at Salt Lake City International Airport in June, 2015. While waiting for boarding at the gate, we were frantically searching for hotels & Airbnbs in Osaka and surrounding areas on laptop & phone. We made some international calls via Skype because waiting for responses via email was not an option (for hotels). Having just cancelled flights & hotels for half of a trip on the day of departure meant we had to quickly come up with another plan, while at the gate just before leaving the country. Since we had just cancelled the flight from Japan to Korea, it meant we got extra time in Japan so lodging had to be rearranged. Since we were no longer going to Korea, it meant we were going to return to the states from Japan instead of Korea, so another flight had to be rearranged. Cancelling a big chunk of a trip (in our case, I consider it a trip by itself since it involves a whole different country) was not an easy decision to make since we made so much planning and booked everything in advance, plus not all bookings could be cancelled with 100% refund, but we felt that was the best thing to do out of precautions. We also had purchased train tickets from Busan to Seoul, so that had to be canceled and thankfully that was easy to do over the website. So, with all that have happened in 2015, we were very excited to finally get to visit Busan in 2018!
Like how we booked (then cancelled) for the KTX tickets in 2015, we reserved bullet train seats on KORAIL website (link here). We printed our tickets (seen above) at home and brought this with us. There was no gate checking the tickets and no one came to check for tickets on the train like in Japan and in US. It meant the majority of travelers and locals were adhering and respectful to the honor system so no checkpoint was necessary for checking. Well, that's what I think. The train riding experience was "good." It was smooth and travelers were respectful, though thinking back it just wasn't a spectacular ride. I mean, what exactly is a spectacular ride 😂? Maybe when the windows are from floor to ceiling with skylights 😀? The 2.5 hours of train ride was comfortable. Wifi was available most of the time. There was free wifi on the train. I switched between complimentary wifi and high speed data provided by cellular provider whenever either gone slow (we have this grandfather plan with T-Mobile which gives us free unlimited data in US and in over 200 countries at no extra fees, we love it).
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| The train was scheduled to depart at 12:30, so we bought a bento from HottoMotto for lunch. All of these bento boxes were pre-packed so it was just a quick pay-and-grab-a-box right away. |
We brought our two large suitcases with us to the train. There was a baggage area upon boarding the train (I imagine that's the case for every "car"), so we stored our suitcases there. We felt very safe with leaving them in the designated storing space while we sat several rows away.
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| We shared lunch together. This bento was nice. I remember I also had coke from McDonald's on the train 😎 (not pictured). |
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| This wasn't the train we took, just a random train. I took it while still sitting inside our train 😀 |
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| As mentioned, I was feeling a lot better the day of going to Busan. I really think the meds gave me too much side effects. The drowsiness and dizziness went away the day after I finished the pills. I felt more energized and had a much better appetite on the second day after being off (the day of the train ride). I still had the clear bandage covering the tip of my nose and there was a bit of dried blood throughout the time in Busan. The doctor told me to let it fall off on its' own so I didn't dare to pull it off, though eventually I picked it off days later after a follow up phone call with the clinic (I shared about my experience with nose sculpture in Korea in a different post. Click here to read more if interested). |
After about 2.5 hours of train ride, we made it to Busan! We took the subway there to get to "Choryang Station" and walked to our hotel "Best In City Hotel" - such a grand name right? We enjoyed our stay there 😄. Click here to see a post I shared about all hotels we stayed during this trip.
💗 CM
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