When I get anesthesia, I'm out so long they have sometimes wondered if I'll wake up. And it seems to be getting
worse with age. I guess my liver just can't dispose of the stuff.
I don't remember the next several DAYS after my colonoscopy. Gone. Creepy.
I had my gall bladder removed 5 years ago. Went into surgery at 10 am, was supposed to be home late afternoon,
and certainly in time for dinner. Nope. 6 am the following day, 20 hours later, I was finally able to walk to the restroom
and urinate. They still didn't want to let me go home, but I pitched a fit. For medical reasons, I should have stayed,
but I hate hospitals. I had vivid, horrible, nightmares while in the recovery room. It seemed an eternal hell. And again,
I don't recall the next several days.
When I had my tonsils out in second grade, they used ether. I didn't wake up for three days, and my mother said
the doctors told her I might never wake up.
I've tried telling anesthesiologists that I am like this. Here's what I got when I had a c=section for my son: I AM THE DOCTOR
HERE WITH THE DEGREE! He was supposed to numb me to my waist. He numbed me so far up close to my neck the bastard
almost killed me. I couldn't hold my son for two days, because I was having severe shakes/withdrawal...so hard, I shook the bed.
If I'd been older and wiser, I would have sued the bastard. He might have had a medical degree, but he sure wasn't a scientist,
looking for data with which to work. I had been in this body for 26 years whereas the first time he saw me was in the O.R. I
had had 4 prior surgeries plus numerous times I had to get stitches in the ER.... anesthetics also take a VERY long time for my body to react to; as a child, ER doctors would administer up to 8x the normal dose... and I'd be numb for days. He considered none of that relevant. Probably all
the more so since I lacked a penis.
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