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Eh, more of a typo than anything.
That said, I had an Indian anesthesiologist ask “what do you think the last thing you remember will be before I knock you out?” “Probably you asking that quest-”
Nailed it.
They had me count down when I had my plate put in. I forget how far I got, but only because that was in the '90s.
They counted for me, it went like this:
- Nurse: 10
- Nurse: 9
- Nurse: 8
- me feeling extremely off and thinking that something is wrong
- Me: Something…
- …
- me waking up in the recovery room.
I will never sleep again!
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they asked me a few times what my weight was, i guess they were surprised i was still babbling.
#gingerthingsanesthetically pleasing, no?
I remember being put under for dental surgery and the doc says, as he slips the headphones on my ears, “we like to play music for our patients as the anesthesia kicks in, what do you think of the Dave Matthew’s Band?”. I had just enough time to say “Ah I don’t really care for the Da-” before I was out like a light and woke up in a recovery room to that damn pan flute CD from the 90’s.
dmb caused Chicago’s 9/11 by dumping a busload of shit and piss onto a tour boat full of people
Crash?
I don’t understand why you replied with the word crash. Is that a reference to something? A movie or one of their songs?
is the album, but tbh I was thinking of the song from the album, “Crash Into Me”…
That’s all I’m really familiar with, not my cuppa…
It’s the name of their 2nd album.
Hahaha, well played sir, well played
I’m not a huge fan of them either, but there are far more terrible things to wake up to.
So glad my surgery a while ago was music free, this should be standard.
Abstract art so good, you derealize and lose time.
I was kinda disappointed that I apparently wasn’t weird coming out of anesthesia when i got my wisdom teeth out. I just went under, they did their work, they finished up, they let me wake up, they sent me on my way.
I’m also boring. I’ve been put under 5 times now, and nothing fun happened with any of them. I fought off the grogginess and “helped” remove the sensor pads and stuff… that’s about it. I always wake up too aware of my discomfort.
Going under is enjoyable though. Having that cocktail kick in and fighting it off as long as possible to enjoy the free drugs. The staff prepping me has always found amusement that I ask tons of groggy questions about the machinery in the room.
Oh you’re lucky. My first surgery was wisdom teeth and I learned that I start throwing punches going under and coming back. I fully warn everyone now and try to fall asleep before they put me under if I can.
I am unnervingly compliant as a patient. It freaks out dentists a bit lol
I used to have a cat who would roll over on his back and purr while vets he’d never met stuck thermometers up his ass.
I think you two would’ve gotten along.
I could genuinely take a nap during a dental cleaning if i tried.
The grindy things are like white noise but more tinittus-y 😜
I’m jealous. I said “you people always mumble” and my wife had to apologetically explain to the black nurse that I meant hearing people. I couldn’t focus my eyes enough to see the skin color of the nurse. And that’s the better of my two stories. When I got my wisdom teeth out it was supposed to be outpatient, but I woke up mid procedure, and after being put back down I came to and spent the next few hours emptying my stomach every time it managed to get some acid back into it.
Same lol. I don’t remember being knocked out. Afterwards they were like “don’t drink through a straw” and my dumbass went to McDonald’s and downed a whole coke through a straw.
They asked me what my favourite cocktails were. I was midway talking about gin and tonic varietals (shiraz gin is sublime) and blacked out. I have no idea what I revealed afterwards and it still haunts me to this day
When I was preparing for surgery for the first time, my mom told me “they’ll tell you to count down from ten and usually, by the time you get to nine, you’ll be asleep.”
Once I had a surgery in the genital area. I guess they didn’t put me fully out; I don’t remember whether that was by design, but I remember that my penis was very definitely exposed and I had the thought “I should definitely be embarrassed about this.”
I did eventually fall asleep. When I woke up, I recognized the nurse attending me. I said something like “I remember you! When I first saw you, I thought ‘what a pretty nurse.’”
I was young at the time, somewhere in my teenage years, and it certainly wouldn’t have been appropriate for her to respond or for me to say in any other situation … but I hope I made her feel good about herself.
Before my appendix surgery, I remember pointing at one of the monitors and asking “Have you got Eurosport on one of those?”. I don’t remember getting any answer.
I got in a motorcycle accident in another country and had to use translate as no one spoke English to get surgery and as they put me under i just hear ‘bye bye’
If I heard that I would be terrified if I wasn’t , you know, immediately asleep.
I tried to stay awake once during the anesthesia to see how long I could remain conscious after they gave me the gas. For the first time I could actively remember being on the OR table and feeling myself drifting off instead of there just being a mysterious gap in my memory that can only be explained by the anesthesiologist pulling a Mr. Sandman on me.
Mine said “Are you feeling anything yet?”
I said “I don’t think so… The lights are a bit fuzzy bu-…” and I was suddenly waking up in the recovery room.
Super quick.
