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  • toynbee@piefed.socialtoComic Strips@lemmy.worldHey there
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    11 days ago

    I had the same experience recently … The doctor was clearly annoyed.

    And I understand why. It was a dental surgery. Probably performing one of those is challenging while your patient is nervously blabbing.

    The last thing I remember before waking up is the doctor saying “okay, you get one more question” and me saying something irrelevant.


  • toynbee@piefed.socialtoComic Strips@lemmy.worldHey there
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    11 days ago

    For my first surgery I had been told something like the above. I was twelve and didn’t have much to be embarrassed about, other than the things that might worry every twelve year old boy, but I was still concerned. When I was in recovery I asked the surgeon “what did I say while I was under?”

    He responded “I’m sworn to silence.” I worried about that for months if not years, especially because I had to have two more surgeries under his care.

    Nothing embarrassing was ever publicized AFAIK.



  • toynbee@piefed.socialtoComic Strips@lemmy.worldHey there
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    11 days ago

    The first time I ever had surgery, I was anxious in advance. My mom told me “don’t worry, usually what happens if that they ask you to count down from ten and by the time you get to nine you’re asleep.” She was right.

    I’m approaching my ninth or possibly tenth surgery and I’m pretty sure I haven’t been asked to count down since. The most recent time I had surgery, when I woke up, I asked when we were going to start.