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- skabyss, on 11/18/2008, -7/+425I had to have a retinal re-attachment surgery when I was 17. I woke up with my eye socket pried open, and my doctor fixing a rubber band around my eye. Luckily I didn't freak out, but it was one of the most unpleasant things I have ever experienced. I wouldn't wish experiences like this on my worst enemy.
- StupotAce, on 11/18/2008, -9/+423You just don't have the right enemy yet.
- lead2thehead, on 11/18/2008, -16/+248somebody just won the lawsuit lottery
- jjohnstn, on 11/18/2008, -6/+170I would think the patient's pulse would have shot way up, alerting the docs that *something* was wrong.
- llamabox, on 11/18/2008, -2/+136I read that way too fast... I thought you wrote RECTAL reattachment. yikes
- heyblue, on 11/18/2008, -0/+133Personally, I would say the worst part is waking up with your eye socket pried open and a doctor fixing a rubber band around your eye.
- djodorg, on 11/18/2008, -2/+132I'd be in shock too.
- JaredXM, on 11/18/2008, -0/+125Why the hell does the nitrous oxide machine need a reverse?
- ryananger, on 11/18/2008, -3/+118No, what she's gonna get them on is the fact that they saw her hand move and didn't bother to investigate the cause.
- NathanielJ, on 11/18/2008, -3/+111http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anesthesia_awareness
This isn't particularly uncommon. About 20,000 to 40,000 cases of this per year in the United States, about 42% of which feel the pain of the surgery. - uknowwhoibe, on 11/18/2008, -4/+98I agree. I call BS on this.
- jcastillo81, on 11/18/2008, -0/+89Also known as 1:500
- elo91, on 11/18/2008, -3/+91this kind of stuff is actually a lot more common than you would think. it's unfortunate, and she ought to be compensated for the pain she suffered, but people vilify doctors way too much over these sorts of things. they make mistakes just like everyone else. the nature of the job just makes those mistakes stand out more. but i guess that's why they make more money than most people.
- logicalfallacy, on 11/18/2008, -5/+78Yeah they ***** up, her heart rate would have been going crazy as well, drugs don't stop the sympathetic response to pain.
- freezerburn666, on 11/18/2008, -11/+82i woke up during my wisdom teeth removal. it wasn't painful, i was ***** feelin the drugs. i was like 'whoa man you guys are doin crazy *****' and sort of laughing about it, so they told me to close my eyes and not to talk and i passed out again. the drugs are good, you know you're with doctors, so it wasn't scary or painful. it was strange because i had a great fear of waking up, not thinking it would actually ever happen, but it did, and i wasn't even scared haha.
- JimSartor, on 11/18/2008, -7/+78Hmmmm. Why didn't the doctors notice her insane rise in heart rate and shock that her system must have endured during surgury? This smells of either urban legend or some insanely incompetent doctors.
- lemercier, on 11/18/2008, -5/+75that is my worst nightmare!
- skabyss, on 11/18/2008, -0/+61touché
- lead2thehead, on 11/18/2008, -2/+60You're kidding, right? An anesthesiologist is supposed to know how your body responds to anesthesia. That's the whole point of being an anesthesiologist.
- StupotAce, on 11/18/2008, -3/+60"Oh man, I was just having the weirdest dream..."
- 11oops, on 11/18/2008, -1/+51Tell you about what? The reply button?
- zip000, on 11/18/2008, -1/+50One thing I hate about general anesthesia - I've had it a few times - is the way that you are just completely gone. It's like you cease to exist. Waking up from it, I didn't have a feeling of lost time or having gone through anything - it's really like I was not.
I can't think of a good way to describe it other than not existing. It's not like sleep and it's not even like being black out drunk. - falstaff, on 11/18/2008, -6/+55This is why anesthesiologists make the most money, and have the highest insurance premiums.
- tonberryqueen, on 11/18/2008, -1/+49Office parties?
- bushout, on 11/18/2008, -3/+50"wasn't too funny"
It was sidesplitting! - LongShlong, on 11/18/2008, -3/+49... I'm shocked they didn't notice her vitals spike through the roof.
- Demener, on 11/18/2008, -2/+47Eye for an eye?
- Clumber, on 11/18/2008, -1/+46NAHNAHNAHNAHNAH!!!! I can't hear you!!! fluffy bunnies and dandelion fields.... fluffy bunnies and dandelion fields.... fluffy bunnies and dandelion fields....
- Ryan2845, on 11/18/2008, -3/+46You mean like that bad movie called "Awake"? At least it had Jessica Alba...
- nipterink, on 11/18/2008, -1/+42people like you bother me. you're not funny or clever, it's an expression. and even if it was THE most unpleasant thing it is still "one of" the most unpleasant things.
- harlowsmonkeys, on 11/18/2008, -3/+40Yes, they ARE supposed to know about that. This is avoidable by using brainwave monitoring during surgery, to detect when the patient is awake.
- MasterChief4134, on 11/18/2008, -1/+38no my worst nightmare is running out of spaghetti sauce before i do noodles :(
- mywhitenoise, on 11/18/2008, -4/+40You can ***** right off, I'm not watching that ***** movie.
- skabyss, on 11/18/2008, -0/+36It's not too god-awful. The worst part is the swelling and the pressure in your eye socket, but believe me when I say smoking pot helps. That and you might need to keep your head tilted (depending on where the retina is coming loose) for a week or two.
- embryoinbloom, on 11/18/2008, -1/+36or got fired
- inactive, on 11/18/2008, -1/+36Same here. Damn, I had my wisdom teeth cut out while I was in the Marines. Those damned Navy dentist bastards barely even gave me enough novocaine. I was fully awake the whole time, but the dentist and his assistant were just chatting away as if I wasn't even there. Imagine having a dentist with his fist jammed in your mouth carving out your teeth, all while talking about how he still feels a little drunk and hungover from the awesome party he went to the night before. No *****. That's medical care in the military right there in a nutshell for you. lol
- talonstriker, on 11/18/2008, -1/+34how bad is the surgery? I'm afraid I'll need it in a few years.
- 11oops, on 11/18/2008, -0/+33Citation needed.
- inactive, on 11/18/2008, -0/+32If it had a "reverse" it would somehow suck it out of you, not shoot out all over the room. Impossible either way.
BS - Darkaged, on 11/18/2008, -0/+30Don't leave me hanging out of my eye socket
- CaptRage, on 11/18/2008, -8/+35A Northern Territory woman has endured a nightmare operation at Alice Springs Hospital after she became conscious during stomach surgery but remained paralysed by the anaesthetic.
Rebecca Jones, 24, told the Northern Territory News she could feel every cut of the surgeon's knife during the operation last month but was unable to scream for help as the anaesthesia had paralysed her.
Ms Jones, who was being operated on for gallstones, said she could not open her eyes but could hear and feel everything.
"I thought the doctors had woken me up because the surgery was over — I quickly realised that was not the case," she was quoted by the Northern Territory News as saying.
Ms Jones realised her predicament when she took a breath and found she couldn’t move, but eventually moved her hand to get the attention of surgery staff — to no avail.
"(Someone) said, 'she's just moved her hand' but they kept going," she said.
The hospital's general manager Vicki Taylor admitted to the NT News that Ms Jones had been awake during the operation but denied medical staff knew of her pain.
Ms Jones is now considering legal action against the hospital. - LogicBomB, on 11/18/2008, -1/+28"... then i opened my brown eye..."
- skabyss, on 11/18/2008, -2/+29Being gang-raped by 8 black dudes in an alley.
- skabyss, on 11/18/2008, -0/+27[see my reply to the comment above yours]
- ZacT, on 11/18/2008, -5/+31Lawsuit? Really? On that evidence I wouldn't say that it's a rock solid case. As people pointed out it's a common occurrence and possibly something that cannot be predicted. (I'm not a doctor).
Doesn't sound like very much fun, but people tend to forget the risks involved with surgery. - mywhitenoise, on 11/18/2008, -3/+29Are you responding to yourself?
- B3000, on 11/18/2008, -2/+27Having sex with your mom.
- digmystuff, on 11/18/2008, -9/+33sounds like a horrible real life version of a nip/tuck episode.
- Yawgmoth, on 11/18/2008, -0/+24I was put under like that too when I had jaw surgery. My consciousness is literally this.
I was counting down from 100 . Suddenly at 96 i felt as if I was falling backwards. When I said 95, i felt something in my mouth and heard the surgeon say 'quick he's coming to' or something like that, and then the falling sensation again and at 94 I was in the other room laying down and the surgery was done.
Apparently there was about 5-10 minutes between 96 and 95 that I was completely unaware of. I woke up when he started to drill in my jaw. There was about 45 minutes between 95 and 94. I don't remember a feeling or the time lapse at all. It's as if my brain was put on pause and I just ceased to exist for that time. I imagine that's what death feels like. Scary *****. -
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