Doctors Postpone Guy’s Surgery Because They Needed Time To Stop Laughing After Finding All Of His Body Drawings
The idea of going under the knife for surgery is a nervewracking thought. Thanks to anesthesia you won’t feel anything (let’s hope) but it is an anxiety-filled process sometimes. One of the best ways to fight off jitters? humor – which is exactly what one guy did while waiting for his knee surgery.
One online user shared the tale of his knee surgery as a teenager. For the post-op process, things seemed to start out routine, with the doctor giving him a sharpie to mark the affected area. Well, waiting around to be taken into the operation room can take a while, so he found a hilarious way to keep himself entertained. When the surgeons found what he had done the prank was so hilarious thing fell a bit behind schedule.
A guy shared the story of his knee surgery prank, which delayed his operation for 30 minutes
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People in the comments thought the story was hilarious and even shared some similar tales
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Share on FacebookThere is a patient waiting on the operating table, the doctor says " don't worry Andrew, its a real simple operation, you'll do fine". The patient looks at the doctor and says " my name isn't Andrew", the doctor responds "I was talking to myself"
It's a very strange feeling, waking up after a general anesthetic. You don't have a sense that time has passed, as you do when you wake up after sleeping normally. When I had a knee operation the nurse didn't get me to count backwards. He asked me questions about the north east of England, where I'm originally from. And I was unconscious before I knew it.
My experience exactly. With regular sleep, you kinda FEEL some time has passed since you fell asleep. With induced anesthesia you lose that frame of reference. I remember feeling extremely weirded out when I went under and then woke up what felt like immediately afterwards; in reality, several hours passed.
Load More Replies...I just had a dental implant put in about 3 weeks ago. I was not put under, but was given 'sedation pills' As instructed I took one 45 minutes before the appointment and the other once I got to the clinic. They told me I wouldnt remember anything. Well, I remember it all. It really wasn't bad or anything, but it blew them away when I went in for my post op check up and could recount the conversation they were having as well as the two stupid jokes I made at the end. The implant is basically a screw that they put up into the socket where your tooth was, so of course after they finished puting in the base I had to say 'I can't help but think I'm getting screwed", then when they put in the upper piece they tighten it down with a little ratchet, so of course I had to add 'And now I'm ratchet'.
I f*****g love that the doctors had a good sense of humor about this. Unfortunately, the reason people have to do this is because of the many times doctors have in fact operated on or in some cases, amputated the WRONG F*****G LIMB!! I mean, how can this s**t still happen??
It's extra confirmation and probably part of a protocol
Load More Replies...i had a hemorrhoidectomy -(in my 20s- long story). i had my then boyfriend draw a tic-tac-toe grid on my butt. the OR staff filled it in ;)
That was an expensive laugh if the delay happened in an American hospital (lol from outside of America)
I had a local anesthetic for a mole removal one time and the doctor and assistant were chatting away about their weekend, their kids and such and I was getting a little annoyed they weren't really paying attention. All of a sudden, I felt a really sharp pain and liquid running down my side and I hear the doctor say, 'Oops'. It ended up leaving a two inch scar, I was pissed. Then when I was getting dressed afterwards, I turned around just as I put my clothes back on and saw a window washer hanging outside the window watching me. I had had it by that point and flew into a rage at the staff. Never went back to that place.
It is very intelligent to do that, it is almost taken as a joke, but it can save your life, last week I heard in the news of two people who happened to them, one had a healthy kidney removed, and another had a healthy leg amputated.
One time I went into surgery to open up my bile duct (I am the 1 in a million person that had a gallstone AFTER my gallbladder was removed...anyways) they said that they had to put the camera down my throat and then take the surgical implements down there as well. The dr introduced himself and said I am the head surgeon here I will be doing your surgery you are in good hands. You will not feel anything, wont remember the surgery....well I am here to say F*$% that...they gave me the anesthesia and I told them I was still awake..could feel everything but I couldn't move...they start going in to cut the duct open..and I could hear the doctor telling a RESIDENT...no dont go in this way..go in that way...as I started screaming in pain...they kept saying give her more fentanyl...after the surgery..I stood up OFF the table myself and onto the gurney....WORST EXPERIENCE EVER!!!!
Sounds more like a lawsuit to me if that is truly what you experienced. Cause if so the anesthesiologist screwed up his cocktail of drugs he was supposed to deliver.
Load More Replies...I was ten years old or so when I broke my left wrist while on a mountain vacation in France. I played cowboys with a friend, we had plastic guns. The boyfriend pulled me over and I collapsed to the ground shouting something like "You got me rascal, but I'll be avenged!" to find myself three meters down from the structure we were playing on. The radiologist told me that it was the most beautiful fork he had ever seen (the two bones broken and displaced, well ...). When I found myself on the operating table of the Thonon Clinic, the anesthesia gave me time to see the surgeon and his assistant bent laughing, shooting at each other with the pistol that despite the pain I had had the presence of mind to slip into my pants before I forget it. A noise woke me in my room: clac! Clac! It was the nurse who was "firing" with my pistol ...
I hope I never have to have surgery, but if I do, I'm doing this.
When I went in for a lumpectomy for breast cancer, my dr. had to sign the correct side, as per hospital policy. 14900451_1...ec8653.jpg
When I had surgery on my left knee, the anesthesiologist said, "I'm going to put a little something in through the mask, and when you wake up, it will all be over." My youngest daughter's response? "Gee, Mom.... That sounds an awful lot like euthanasia! Good luck!" I woke up two hours later, still laughing :)
I woke up in post-op after surgery and a man was in the bed across from me. He was facing away in a typical hospital gown and I looked over and said, "Dude, say no to crack!"
I remember going in for a procedure and getting the general anesthesia and telling the surgeon 'I will remember everything you say!' Later that year I started working for the practice he belonged to and he GRILLED ME. He had given me his ssn, dob, dL number.... didn't remember squat. He loved laughing at me for that.
At this point im not even going to try to guess what he wrote on his "lower back" xD
I had surgery when I was 14 ( 'cause I'm a mutant) and I specifically remember the nurse giving me an anxiety-relief sedative thing, and she said "You probably won't remember this". So naturally, being the competitive and stubborn person I am, had the conscious decision to remember that and everything else, specifically because she said I wouldn't. And I did. I remembered the sedative, being wheeled away (and thankfully not saying anything dopey, because I was so concentrated), being told to move from the gurney thing to the surgical bed, and turning my face away from the bright lights in the room. Point, me.
I have anxiety thinking of being under- you're totally vulnerable, they can look at your naked body etc. Maybe I'll write on my boobs and above my pubes DONT LOOK AT THAT, YOU PERV!Lol.
With some anaesthetics, the reason you don't feel time passing is because of a drug that essentially gives you amnesia. And if you don't need to be intubated for the surgery, sometimes you'll be 'awake' so the anesthetist can better assess your anaesthesia. I sat in on a total knee replacement during my hospital rotation with an anesthesiologist and the patient was talking away, singing, laughing, and all of this to themselves all while a bone saw was cutting out the diseased bone and then the replacement was being hammered on in quite vigorously. This was quite possibly the most interesting experience of my life.
I had sedation dentistry a few times especially to remove my upper wisdom teeth because I had a traumatic time when my lower ones were removed. my dentist told me I won't remember anything and I would sleep through the whole thing... well not quite I remembered the whole procedure... just didn't remember much about the rest of the day including calling and talking to my brother for over 45 minutes. the next appointment i said something about the previous appointment and he's like you were out the whole time and I told him EVERYTHING that happened... he was shocked. But later we moved states and I went to another sedation dentist for some work and he told me I was the most cooperative patient while I was under as I would instinctively move my mouth in the way he needed (I have a small mouth so hard for dentists to reach some areas.
Some funny stuff in here.lol My wife was about to give birth to twins when her doctor retired 1 week before her due date. When 2 new young doctors delivered the second twin I was so happy and I said this with a serious face. "One more to go guys let's do this" let's just say they didn't like that too much as one of the doctors started panicking and trying to look for a 3rd baby in there. Lol
I was having my Uvula removed because it was part of my obstructive sleep apnoea and the local/spray aesthetic was doing its job as I could not feel anything but I kept gagging when they put this metal L shaped tongue depressor in my mouth. I got annoyed and said "For crying out loud! Bloody give it here!" I jammed it in my mouth and nodded angrily to indicate they can get to work. Doctor said it was the first time he felt like saluting before operating and saying "Yes sir!" Apparently I had a reaction to the anaesthetic that made me slightly aggressive and was told it was not uncommon but usually always mild and harmless
It still seems risky to put an "X" on the wrong knee -- "X" usually marks the spot. When I was a 10-y/o, the prep nurse asked, "Which leg is being amputated?" I was there for an appendectomy. He thought it was hilarious. I did not.
I had a total knee replacement done under a local with a very light anesthesia on top of it, light enough that they said that it was possible I'd wake up during the surgery. They were right. I came to mid-surgery, spoke to them, and complained bitterly when they insisted they had to put me under again because I wanted to stay awake and follow along with what they were doing. I'm not sure I was really thinking too clearly. :) But I still kind of wish I'd been allowed to stay awake! I guess I"m just weird.
My son WIlliam was 3 or 4 and he had to haver surgary to have on tesical broght down to the sack when he woke up he ask a older nurse to hold him she did, then he told the nurse that man is mean I'm going to bite a whole in his butt this big. and he made a cirle wih his hand as big as pizza, the nurse who tried not to laugh said that a big bite for alittle guy like you, Wlliam them yarn and feel back asleep. they brought him to us with the nurse setting on the gurney holding him and she told s the whole story.
I went in for my colonoscopy and had my wife write on my butt cheek "beyond here there be dragons." The pre-OP folks had a good laugh.
It reminds me of my surgery when I had my hip and foot done (yes, at the exact same time). I had to sign my left buttock and bottom of my left foot, my surgeons signed after I did. I was given my "calming" injection and went back to the OR. I remember counting to 87(!!) before I was totally out. Woke up and told the nurse I felt hungover and wanted a beer. No beer for me, but that nurse kept laughing at everything I said. She said I looked straight in her face and said, "Beam me up, Scotty" right after I said 87, everyone was laughing. I don't remember it, just glad I could make the nurses and my surgeons laugh on Christmas eve.
I had knee surgery on both knees when I was 21. The same op on both knees. They shaved my legs from thigh to ankle so I had little hairly socks and shorts and then they put iodine onto both legs - nice brown staining and now white hairy socks & shorts & they then draw a 6 inch arrow on each thigh pointing to each knee. Surely I can expect a surgeon to know where my knees are - and there were a fair few clues what area to be concentrating on before the arrows but it was the same for each knee so I didn't feel overly confident as they wheeled me into surgery.
Why is the doctor asking the patient to identify which knee he is to operate on? you'd think that would have been determined long before the surgery was about to happen.
This is now due to HIPAA. Long story short a surgeon did surgery on a patient eons ago, and it was the wrong side /surgery. Surgeon lost his license to practice, hospital and surgeon were sued for malpractice. So now.. you have to confirm SEVERAL times who you are and what body part they are operating on. I had to sign my hip and foot with my surgeons and sing loads of paperwork to confirm my surgery before I was even wheeled away. Source: I work in a medical practice and work in a legal medical records department.
Load More Replies...This has nothing to do with written instructions for the surgeon... I had abdominal surgery and after a lot of begging on my part my parents came to take care of me. First thing I said in post-op was tell the RN that the room was noisier than a Walmart and then I bent over and started calling my dad, "Papi! Papiiii!" very loudly while laughing. Mind you, I was 49 years old, carrying on like this. Since I wouldn't lie back and stop my yelling, they actually brought my dad in to sit with me and I was so thrilled to see him! It felt like one of the happiest days of my life!
They did this with my mum she had an operation for a frozen shoulder and they put an arrow on which shoulder it was but the person drawing on her couldn't remember my mum had to tell her then someone came in later and was like so it's your left shoulder we are working on my mum was like... Right ... The one with the arrow
had 2 kidney stones surgically taken care of they injected my IV with the anesthetic and boom woke up in recovery. It was just dam odd but I felt much better after the first one after being admitted for 2 days finally had some type of sleep.
I had knee surgery two years ago. Upon admission the ward doctor took all my data, history, looked over the diagnosis, marked my knee with a marker himself, gave me the identifying wrist band, etc etc. This was in CZ, but I cannot understand why they'd ever let a patient mark themselves. You're in the responsibility of the doctors' from the time you enter the hospital to the moment you leave.
When I was like 14 I broke my right hand and needed pins put in. I remember being in the OR and them asking a couple questions then I remember being in the recovery area but had no idea so I'm asking the nurse are yall gonna start soon or what? I had opted for them to just numb my arm so I could see it all.. it's a giant blank spot for me but apparently I was up and conversing with them the entire time.
I had a hernia op at eight years old and was so excited about the entire experience, it was one of the best days of my young life!! That is until I woke up groggy, parents convinced me not to accept any painkillers for the intense pain (b*stards!), was forced to eat lumpy instant mash potato and threw up. However I then got 6 weeks off school which was ace!!!!!!
As I was going under for my wisdom teeth, I kept thinking that if ai could just cross my legs then I'm not dying. It was my first time going under. I then crossed my legs and the doc said me we really need your legs uncrossed. I also asked why my heat was beating so loud if even at al. That I thought it was supposed to go to sleep as well. haha "well I'm awfully glad it's still awake." He said
Do medical staff really think we don't remember what happens BEFORE they drug us? How weird. I remember getting being put under general for stitches in my knee when I was really little. I was quite proud of myself when the doc told me to count to 10 as I got all the numbers right! Well, up to 4 anyway, which is where I passed out. This was nearly 40 years ago.
Anesthesia can cause amnesia in a lot of patients
Load More Replies...Only operation I have had was for Nasal polyp as a kid, dont remember at what age, I had bled on the doctors and as soon I was taken into a recovery room I woke up and asked when we were going home. Mom tried to keep me still with a new toy, those 90s small castle with a poly pocket like figure, but nope Sivi wants to go home. We get the go ahead and I blackout as soon as dad turn the car key.
There is a patient waiting on the operating table, the doctor says " don't worry Andrew, its a real simple operation, you'll do fine". The patient looks at the doctor and says " my name isn't Andrew", the doctor responds "I was talking to myself"
It's a very strange feeling, waking up after a general anesthetic. You don't have a sense that time has passed, as you do when you wake up after sleeping normally. When I had a knee operation the nurse didn't get me to count backwards. He asked me questions about the north east of England, where I'm originally from. And I was unconscious before I knew it.
My experience exactly. With regular sleep, you kinda FEEL some time has passed since you fell asleep. With induced anesthesia you lose that frame of reference. I remember feeling extremely weirded out when I went under and then woke up what felt like immediately afterwards; in reality, several hours passed.
Load More Replies...I just had a dental implant put in about 3 weeks ago. I was not put under, but was given 'sedation pills' As instructed I took one 45 minutes before the appointment and the other once I got to the clinic. They told me I wouldnt remember anything. Well, I remember it all. It really wasn't bad or anything, but it blew them away when I went in for my post op check up and could recount the conversation they were having as well as the two stupid jokes I made at the end. The implant is basically a screw that they put up into the socket where your tooth was, so of course after they finished puting in the base I had to say 'I can't help but think I'm getting screwed", then when they put in the upper piece they tighten it down with a little ratchet, so of course I had to add 'And now I'm ratchet'.
I f*****g love that the doctors had a good sense of humor about this. Unfortunately, the reason people have to do this is because of the many times doctors have in fact operated on or in some cases, amputated the WRONG F*****G LIMB!! I mean, how can this s**t still happen??
It's extra confirmation and probably part of a protocol
Load More Replies...i had a hemorrhoidectomy -(in my 20s- long story). i had my then boyfriend draw a tic-tac-toe grid on my butt. the OR staff filled it in ;)
That was an expensive laugh if the delay happened in an American hospital (lol from outside of America)
I had a local anesthetic for a mole removal one time and the doctor and assistant were chatting away about their weekend, their kids and such and I was getting a little annoyed they weren't really paying attention. All of a sudden, I felt a really sharp pain and liquid running down my side and I hear the doctor say, 'Oops'. It ended up leaving a two inch scar, I was pissed. Then when I was getting dressed afterwards, I turned around just as I put my clothes back on and saw a window washer hanging outside the window watching me. I had had it by that point and flew into a rage at the staff. Never went back to that place.
It is very intelligent to do that, it is almost taken as a joke, but it can save your life, last week I heard in the news of two people who happened to them, one had a healthy kidney removed, and another had a healthy leg amputated.
One time I went into surgery to open up my bile duct (I am the 1 in a million person that had a gallstone AFTER my gallbladder was removed...anyways) they said that they had to put the camera down my throat and then take the surgical implements down there as well. The dr introduced himself and said I am the head surgeon here I will be doing your surgery you are in good hands. You will not feel anything, wont remember the surgery....well I am here to say F*$% that...they gave me the anesthesia and I told them I was still awake..could feel everything but I couldn't move...they start going in to cut the duct open..and I could hear the doctor telling a RESIDENT...no dont go in this way..go in that way...as I started screaming in pain...they kept saying give her more fentanyl...after the surgery..I stood up OFF the table myself and onto the gurney....WORST EXPERIENCE EVER!!!!
Sounds more like a lawsuit to me if that is truly what you experienced. Cause if so the anesthesiologist screwed up his cocktail of drugs he was supposed to deliver.
Load More Replies...I was ten years old or so when I broke my left wrist while on a mountain vacation in France. I played cowboys with a friend, we had plastic guns. The boyfriend pulled me over and I collapsed to the ground shouting something like "You got me rascal, but I'll be avenged!" to find myself three meters down from the structure we were playing on. The radiologist told me that it was the most beautiful fork he had ever seen (the two bones broken and displaced, well ...). When I found myself on the operating table of the Thonon Clinic, the anesthesia gave me time to see the surgeon and his assistant bent laughing, shooting at each other with the pistol that despite the pain I had had the presence of mind to slip into my pants before I forget it. A noise woke me in my room: clac! Clac! It was the nurse who was "firing" with my pistol ...
I hope I never have to have surgery, but if I do, I'm doing this.
When I went in for a lumpectomy for breast cancer, my dr. had to sign the correct side, as per hospital policy. 14900451_1...ec8653.jpg
When I had surgery on my left knee, the anesthesiologist said, "I'm going to put a little something in through the mask, and when you wake up, it will all be over." My youngest daughter's response? "Gee, Mom.... That sounds an awful lot like euthanasia! Good luck!" I woke up two hours later, still laughing :)
I woke up in post-op after surgery and a man was in the bed across from me. He was facing away in a typical hospital gown and I looked over and said, "Dude, say no to crack!"
I remember going in for a procedure and getting the general anesthesia and telling the surgeon 'I will remember everything you say!' Later that year I started working for the practice he belonged to and he GRILLED ME. He had given me his ssn, dob, dL number.... didn't remember squat. He loved laughing at me for that.
At this point im not even going to try to guess what he wrote on his "lower back" xD
I had surgery when I was 14 ( 'cause I'm a mutant) and I specifically remember the nurse giving me an anxiety-relief sedative thing, and she said "You probably won't remember this". So naturally, being the competitive and stubborn person I am, had the conscious decision to remember that and everything else, specifically because she said I wouldn't. And I did. I remembered the sedative, being wheeled away (and thankfully not saying anything dopey, because I was so concentrated), being told to move from the gurney thing to the surgical bed, and turning my face away from the bright lights in the room. Point, me.
I have anxiety thinking of being under- you're totally vulnerable, they can look at your naked body etc. Maybe I'll write on my boobs and above my pubes DONT LOOK AT THAT, YOU PERV!Lol.
With some anaesthetics, the reason you don't feel time passing is because of a drug that essentially gives you amnesia. And if you don't need to be intubated for the surgery, sometimes you'll be 'awake' so the anesthetist can better assess your anaesthesia. I sat in on a total knee replacement during my hospital rotation with an anesthesiologist and the patient was talking away, singing, laughing, and all of this to themselves all while a bone saw was cutting out the diseased bone and then the replacement was being hammered on in quite vigorously. This was quite possibly the most interesting experience of my life.
I had sedation dentistry a few times especially to remove my upper wisdom teeth because I had a traumatic time when my lower ones were removed. my dentist told me I won't remember anything and I would sleep through the whole thing... well not quite I remembered the whole procedure... just didn't remember much about the rest of the day including calling and talking to my brother for over 45 minutes. the next appointment i said something about the previous appointment and he's like you were out the whole time and I told him EVERYTHING that happened... he was shocked. But later we moved states and I went to another sedation dentist for some work and he told me I was the most cooperative patient while I was under as I would instinctively move my mouth in the way he needed (I have a small mouth so hard for dentists to reach some areas.
Some funny stuff in here.lol My wife was about to give birth to twins when her doctor retired 1 week before her due date. When 2 new young doctors delivered the second twin I was so happy and I said this with a serious face. "One more to go guys let's do this" let's just say they didn't like that too much as one of the doctors started panicking and trying to look for a 3rd baby in there. Lol
I was having my Uvula removed because it was part of my obstructive sleep apnoea and the local/spray aesthetic was doing its job as I could not feel anything but I kept gagging when they put this metal L shaped tongue depressor in my mouth. I got annoyed and said "For crying out loud! Bloody give it here!" I jammed it in my mouth and nodded angrily to indicate they can get to work. Doctor said it was the first time he felt like saluting before operating and saying "Yes sir!" Apparently I had a reaction to the anaesthetic that made me slightly aggressive and was told it was not uncommon but usually always mild and harmless
It still seems risky to put an "X" on the wrong knee -- "X" usually marks the spot. When I was a 10-y/o, the prep nurse asked, "Which leg is being amputated?" I was there for an appendectomy. He thought it was hilarious. I did not.
I had a total knee replacement done under a local with a very light anesthesia on top of it, light enough that they said that it was possible I'd wake up during the surgery. They were right. I came to mid-surgery, spoke to them, and complained bitterly when they insisted they had to put me under again because I wanted to stay awake and follow along with what they were doing. I'm not sure I was really thinking too clearly. :) But I still kind of wish I'd been allowed to stay awake! I guess I"m just weird.
My son WIlliam was 3 or 4 and he had to haver surgary to have on tesical broght down to the sack when he woke up he ask a older nurse to hold him she did, then he told the nurse that man is mean I'm going to bite a whole in his butt this big. and he made a cirle wih his hand as big as pizza, the nurse who tried not to laugh said that a big bite for alittle guy like you, Wlliam them yarn and feel back asleep. they brought him to us with the nurse setting on the gurney holding him and she told s the whole story.
I went in for my colonoscopy and had my wife write on my butt cheek "beyond here there be dragons." The pre-OP folks had a good laugh.
It reminds me of my surgery when I had my hip and foot done (yes, at the exact same time). I had to sign my left buttock and bottom of my left foot, my surgeons signed after I did. I was given my "calming" injection and went back to the OR. I remember counting to 87(!!) before I was totally out. Woke up and told the nurse I felt hungover and wanted a beer. No beer for me, but that nurse kept laughing at everything I said. She said I looked straight in her face and said, "Beam me up, Scotty" right after I said 87, everyone was laughing. I don't remember it, just glad I could make the nurses and my surgeons laugh on Christmas eve.
I had knee surgery on both knees when I was 21. The same op on both knees. They shaved my legs from thigh to ankle so I had little hairly socks and shorts and then they put iodine onto both legs - nice brown staining and now white hairy socks & shorts & they then draw a 6 inch arrow on each thigh pointing to each knee. Surely I can expect a surgeon to know where my knees are - and there were a fair few clues what area to be concentrating on before the arrows but it was the same for each knee so I didn't feel overly confident as they wheeled me into surgery.
Why is the doctor asking the patient to identify which knee he is to operate on? you'd think that would have been determined long before the surgery was about to happen.
This is now due to HIPAA. Long story short a surgeon did surgery on a patient eons ago, and it was the wrong side /surgery. Surgeon lost his license to practice, hospital and surgeon were sued for malpractice. So now.. you have to confirm SEVERAL times who you are and what body part they are operating on. I had to sign my hip and foot with my surgeons and sing loads of paperwork to confirm my surgery before I was even wheeled away. Source: I work in a medical practice and work in a legal medical records department.
Load More Replies...This has nothing to do with written instructions for the surgeon... I had abdominal surgery and after a lot of begging on my part my parents came to take care of me. First thing I said in post-op was tell the RN that the room was noisier than a Walmart and then I bent over and started calling my dad, "Papi! Papiiii!" very loudly while laughing. Mind you, I was 49 years old, carrying on like this. Since I wouldn't lie back and stop my yelling, they actually brought my dad in to sit with me and I was so thrilled to see him! It felt like one of the happiest days of my life!
They did this with my mum she had an operation for a frozen shoulder and they put an arrow on which shoulder it was but the person drawing on her couldn't remember my mum had to tell her then someone came in later and was like so it's your left shoulder we are working on my mum was like... Right ... The one with the arrow
had 2 kidney stones surgically taken care of they injected my IV with the anesthetic and boom woke up in recovery. It was just dam odd but I felt much better after the first one after being admitted for 2 days finally had some type of sleep.
I had knee surgery two years ago. Upon admission the ward doctor took all my data, history, looked over the diagnosis, marked my knee with a marker himself, gave me the identifying wrist band, etc etc. This was in CZ, but I cannot understand why they'd ever let a patient mark themselves. You're in the responsibility of the doctors' from the time you enter the hospital to the moment you leave.
When I was like 14 I broke my right hand and needed pins put in. I remember being in the OR and them asking a couple questions then I remember being in the recovery area but had no idea so I'm asking the nurse are yall gonna start soon or what? I had opted for them to just numb my arm so I could see it all.. it's a giant blank spot for me but apparently I was up and conversing with them the entire time.
I had a hernia op at eight years old and was so excited about the entire experience, it was one of the best days of my young life!! That is until I woke up groggy, parents convinced me not to accept any painkillers for the intense pain (b*stards!), was forced to eat lumpy instant mash potato and threw up. However I then got 6 weeks off school which was ace!!!!!!
As I was going under for my wisdom teeth, I kept thinking that if ai could just cross my legs then I'm not dying. It was my first time going under. I then crossed my legs and the doc said me we really need your legs uncrossed. I also asked why my heat was beating so loud if even at al. That I thought it was supposed to go to sleep as well. haha "well I'm awfully glad it's still awake." He said
Do medical staff really think we don't remember what happens BEFORE they drug us? How weird. I remember getting being put under general for stitches in my knee when I was really little. I was quite proud of myself when the doc told me to count to 10 as I got all the numbers right! Well, up to 4 anyway, which is where I passed out. This was nearly 40 years ago.
Anesthesia can cause amnesia in a lot of patients
Load More Replies...Only operation I have had was for Nasal polyp as a kid, dont remember at what age, I had bled on the doctors and as soon I was taken into a recovery room I woke up and asked when we were going home. Mom tried to keep me still with a new toy, those 90s small castle with a poly pocket like figure, but nope Sivi wants to go home. We get the go ahead and I blackout as soon as dad turn the car key.
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