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Deja Q Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-13-05 01:10 PM
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Poll question: Have youy ever been put unconscious for surgery?
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matcom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-13-05 01:12 PM
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1. woke up in the middle of surgery once
for a hernia when i was a kid. lifted my head right off the table and saw the docs hands in my abdomen. didn't feel anything but was really wierd.

they pretty much freaked out on me after that. kinda cool to see my own innards though
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Midlodemocrat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-13-05 01:13 PM
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2. Were they real?
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matcom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-13-05 01:13 PM
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3. does it really matter?
:D
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progmom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-13-05 01:19 PM
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7. i know that feeling
...from my c-section. FREAKY. :scared:
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Redstone Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-13-05 01:27 PM
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9. Hey, I watched one of my knee operations.
Edited on Tue Dec-13-05 01:28 PM by Redstone
It was in the early days of the scopes, and I wanted to check it out, because it was just for cutting out some cartilage, not fiddling with ligaments. The doctor said OK, he'd let me have only a local, but if I twitched, he'd hit me on the head with a hammer to knock me out so he could finish up without any distractions.

I didn't twitch. And it was cool to watch. I be the hospitals' lawyers would never let a surgeon do that these days.

Redstone
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kick-ass-bob Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-13-05 01:31 PM
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11. my dad watched his knee surgery on TV.
They do a lot of local anas. surgeries, still.
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Saphire Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-13-05 02:40 PM
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27. I woke up once too, when the bone saw started.
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WeRQ4U Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-13-05 01:16 PM
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4. Yep, hernia surgery
I, however, did not wake up. And even if I had, they did it laproscopically, and all I would have seen was 2 metal rods being pushed in and out of my belly button area.
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underpants Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-13-05 01:17 PM
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5. Ha! Anesthesia is for wimps
I just tough it out.
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Nicholas D Wolfwood Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-13-05 01:44 PM
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15. Just gimme a bottle scotch and something to bite down on.
Hell, I'll do the surgery myself!
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underpants Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-13-05 01:45 PM
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16. RIGHT!
Hell I'll just bite down on the bottle of scotch!!!
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Redstone Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-13-05 03:25 PM
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28. Whiskey and a bullet, eh?
Edited on Tue Dec-13-05 03:25 PM by Redstone
It's the American Man way. Oh, and we can't forget to tell anyone who asks, that it only hurts when we laugh.

Redstone
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MissMillie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-13-05 01:18 PM
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6. 7 times, most recently last Monday
for a hernia repair
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MissHoneychurch Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-13-05 01:21 PM
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8. yes
had a nose operation (NOT a nose job) so I can beath better. The worst thing was when they pulled the hose out of my throat.
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Oeditpus Rex Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-13-05 01:49 PM
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18. Jesus!
I read that as "The worst thing was when they pulled the nose out of my throat."

:scared:
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MissHoneychurch Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-13-05 01:52 PM
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19. LOL
last time I checked my nose was still at its place :)
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Oeditpus Rex Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-13-05 02:08 PM
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22. Thank goodness for that!
And it's absolutely adorable. :loveya:
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skygazer Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-13-05 01:29 PM
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10. Several times
My fondest memory is when I had my hysterectomy. They gave me a morphine drip, the kind where you can self administer by pressing a little button (they rig it so you can only administer so much within a certain amount of time).

Anyway, I was lying in bed just rhythmically pushing that button and I got so stoned that I had to ring for the nurse and tell her, "Mmmmmm, losht my buttonnnn....."

She said, "Skygazer, it's in your hand!" So I started pushing again.... :evilgrin:

I love morphine drips.... :loveya:
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MissMillie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-13-05 01:32 PM
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12. I had one of those when I had my gastric bypass
my sister told me that in recovery I was pressing that button like I was trying to beat Ken Jennings on Jeopardy.
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Whoa_Nelly Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-13-05 01:52 PM
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20. Morphine
Living on clouds

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Shell Beau Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-13-05 01:34 PM
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13. Just for wisdom teeth!
Even though I have had my stomach pumped twice (when I was a kid), they don't put you under for that!! x(
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tjwmason Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-13-05 01:37 PM
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14. Yes - with gas
when I was a nipper - to have 4 teeth removed.

Felt no ill-effects at all afterward, but was well-impressed at getting the whole tooth including the root to give to the tooth-fairy.
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deadparrot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-13-05 01:46 PM
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17. Yes, for wisdom teeth. nt
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AlCzervik Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-13-05 01:52 PM
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21. yes, gallbladder removal and dental surgery
actually dental reconstruction.
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Burma Jones Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-13-05 02:11 PM
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23. Appendectomy - Election Day 1996
Got sick that morning, didn't vote - but EVERYBODY I wanted to win, did, and then I had the surgery early Wednesday Morning.....
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TX-RAT Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-13-05 02:17 PM
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24. 3 times in the last 2 years
1 bypass surgery
2 thyroid surgery's
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LaurenG Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-13-05 02:26 PM
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25. I have three times
I had a hernia too when I was four. The worst part of that was the recovery room and then trying to stand up. :shrug: Thank goodness I didn't wake up during surgery.
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Terran Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-13-05 02:26 PM
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26. When I got my wisdom teeth out.
I didn't plan on full anesthesia, but my partner at the time was the surgeon's hygienist, and they did it all for free, including the gas. Strange feeling, to go under and have no involvement whatsoever in a fairly wrenching experience.
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