CaptainCurtis
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Funny story about anaesthetics..
I went in for a cardiac ablation late last year. The hospital I had the procedure at didn't allow visitors, so I had my parents drop me off. Now, I knew in advance that my cardiologist had a suspicion my accessory pathway was left-sided, which adds to the length of the procedure, but nonetheless still expected it to be complete within ~3 hours. The nurses looked after me during pre-op, and before long I was going in. I sent a quick text to let me folks know.
I remember being wheeled in to the procedure room, and the coldness of the room. The anaesthetic was administered, and I'm gone before I can count to three. I woke up in post-op incredibly groggy. I have no recollection of this, but the nurse asked me how I felt, and amid my somewhat catatonic state, I responded "nauseous", before falling back asleep.
Now in the interim, my parents are anxiously sitting at home waiting to hear how things went. At the 4-hour mark, they called the hospital for an update, only to be told that I was still under. At the 5-hour mark, growing increasingly concerned, they call again. This time they're told, "he's out, but there have been complications and he's in the ICU". Well you can only imagine the panic that ensued.
Well it turns out, the "complications" the nurse was referring to was the nausea, and the "ICU" was a combined ICU/CCU that looked after all post-op patients.
There was also a clock in my room that, for about 2 hours, was spinning like this. I had a nurse 1:1, who came in every 30 minutes to check on my incision site. I joked with her about the clock, but she was a little too non-committal about it. I still have no idea if I was hallucinating, or if the clock was broken.
I went in for a cardiac ablation late last year. The hospital I had the procedure at didn't allow visitors, so I had my parents drop me off. Now, I knew in advance that my cardiologist had a suspicion my accessory pathway was left-sided, which adds to the length of the procedure, but nonetheless still expected it to be complete within ~3 hours. The nurses looked after me during pre-op, and before long I was going in. I sent a quick text to let me folks know.
I remember being wheeled in to the procedure room, and the coldness of the room. The anaesthetic was administered, and I'm gone before I can count to three. I woke up in post-op incredibly groggy. I have no recollection of this, but the nurse asked me how I felt, and amid my somewhat catatonic state, I responded "nauseous", before falling back asleep.
Now in the interim, my parents are anxiously sitting at home waiting to hear how things went. At the 4-hour mark, they called the hospital for an update, only to be told that I was still under. At the 5-hour mark, growing increasingly concerned, they call again. This time they're told, "he's out, but there have been complications and he's in the ICU". Well you can only imagine the panic that ensued.
Well it turns out, the "complications" the nurse was referring to was the nausea, and the "ICU" was a combined ICU/CCU that looked after all post-op patients.
There was also a clock in my room that, for about 2 hours, was spinning like this. I had a nurse 1:1, who came in every 30 minutes to check on my incision site. I joked with her about the clock, but she was a little too non-committal about it. I still have no idea if I was hallucinating, or if the clock was broken.
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Heparin made me bruise too when in hospital waiting for DVT to resolve.
