If I Don't Wake Up...

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Yeah, you wish, HT! :D Wrong bit of anatomy, though - I wouldn't feel a thing. Best to aim for what is euphemistically referred to as my 'heart'... <_<
 
On first reading this, my first though was "you'll be grand". On reading when it was posted though, & the lack of an appearence since, I'm not so sure....

I've been under a few times, & I agree that it is quite an ok experience, really, even if the first time I had a general I was really ill as I came round - I now have to let the anaesthetists know that I get sick on it! A little bizarre too when on one occasion they didn't give me enough anaesthetic & I woke up before they could get me to recovery - I still had the tube down my throat, not a nice feeling! Two weeks later when I went under again they had this in mind, obviously, as I didn't wake up till the next morning!

I think it was Griffin mentioned gas & air - fantastic stuff!! When I broke my femur I had gas & air on top of a morphine jab - Jesus, I didn't know a thing, felt like I was flying 6 feet in the air!!
 
Yes, it's me.

The level of anxiety I have reached this week is an all-time high. My heartbeat was usually around the 75bpm mark but anytime someone came to speak with me it rose to over 100bpm.

Hospitals are very depressing places.

The doctor who was assigned to deal with me took great joy in telling me he was very experienced in dealing with bladder cancers. :what:

My heartbeat rose to 130bpm.

I haven't eaten or had a drink of anything, I feel faint and I'm away to bed.
 
When I was jsut coming out of anaesthetic, a guy in a green overal walked past. I asked the nurse who it was who had just passed.

"Him? That was the surgeon."

I replied, "Did I miss the first two?"






















(If you don't get it say it with a Scottish accent.)
 
"surgeon" is not unlike a Scottish mispronunciation of "third yin".

As ever, humour is lost in the explaining. :)
 
Originally posted by BrianH@Jun 24 2005, 05:30 PM
None of the old MRSA then?
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Afraid not :D

I have to say, my opinion of the NHS has gone right downhill. The hospital I was in is a relatively new hospital, very clean and easy to navigate around but the staff were all lost. The confusion was incredible. Nurses were able to switch on deafness at will, it seemed.
 
Maybe the nurses were MAURITIANS(as they say there's an influx here doing nursing or another nationality?) and they did not understand you?

Talking of, I worked with a guy from ABERDEEN for a few years and I could not understand him for months at first when I worked with him.....and I remember going to BLACKPOOL(to see the lights) years ago now!! and the barmaids could not understand me/us either,(I speak KAIRDIFF!!) they said we talk to fast... so that could just have been the reason!!.............
 
I'm not sure I'm following you.

Are you saying that because of my accent, the nurses might have thought I was talking too fast and not be able to understand me?

I didn't fly to a hospital in Tokyo.
 
Any excuse to get a mention of other nationalties in this country or any other from Merlin, Phil.
 
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