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siannan ([personal profile] siannan) wrote2004-03-25 03:37 am
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I'm starting to get nervous about J.'s surgery. I don't want him to get a general anesthetic, but he's adamant about not being awake for the procedure. Then he waffles and says he doesn't want to be intubated. I told him to just get the local and a sedative ("Hey! They'll give you the Magical Purple Rainbow Valium!") but he's skittish.

They'll never get ME under a general again. That was nightmarish. I can still feel it burning through my arm and reaching up my neck and over my skull like a sickly red-brown claw as I was trying to protest that it fucking HURT and everything went this grainy color of loose turds and *wuh*. That was 13 years ago. Ecch.
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[identity profile] tonapah.livejournal.com 2004-03-25 01:09 am (UTC)(link)
I had general anesthesia seven years ago, and I don't remember it being that bad. What freaked me out more was the cold operating room and lying on that giant slab of a table with everyone scrubbed up and staring at me. The gradual sleep that came over me with the anesthesia was a blissful escape. ;)

Good luck to him with his surgery. Make sure he gets the happy-making Demerol afterward. Or Vicodin.

[identity profile] mountain-hiker.livejournal.com 2004-03-25 04:36 am (UTC)(link)
Hope things go well. :/

[identity profile] meenk.livejournal.com 2004-03-25 05:45 am (UTC)(link)
WE GOT THE GO AHEAD ON THE NO BABIES SNIP!!!!! :D

[identity profile] auntiesiannan.livejournal.com 2004-03-25 06:53 am (UTC)(link)
WHOOOOOOOOOOOOOEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE :D :D :D

Now all you gotta do is take care of them boobies!
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[identity profile] oddharmonic.livejournal.com 2004-03-25 02:49 pm (UTC)(link)
My general experience wasn't too bad -- mine was a gas, so they went from the cannula I'd been on for hours to a mask. I apparently made Darth Vader jokes before I went under, which hopefully amused someone because my ass was freezing cold on that table.

I prefer local simply because I don't like missing out on the exciting parts.
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