Dang Oprah! Dang DVR! Dang Dreams!
Almost NOBODY wakes up during surgery. Honest, it's almost unheard of. Experienced anesthesiologists and anesthetists can tell the level of somebody's consciousness, and I understand now there are monitors that can discover if something like that is going on.
The breathing tube is to breathe for you when you can't breathe for yourself. That's only when you're DEEP under. If you're awake enough to experience the tube, then you're awake enough to breathe for yourself. Exceptions to this are also very rare.
Oprah operating.... well, that's something else. I guess that woman's everwhere and if she wants to operate, I can't imagine who could stop her. She'd just buy the hospital! LOL So I guess I'd narrow my worrying down to that one.
I'm kidding because I know how natural it is to worry! I requested "I don't care juice" as soon as I hit the OR holding room, and I'd have preferred to have some for a few days beforehand, too!
Dennie
"It's so beautifully arranged on the plate - you know someone's fingers have been all over it. ~Julia Child"
Dennie---yes, definitely getting an "I don't care pill"---the nurse that called re: my pre-admit asked me if I wanted something to calm me down...at first I didn't think I needed anything, but she told me I might & so I should be getting something. I will be vigilant about getting it now.
Whew...reading your post made me feel much better!
Preop Weight 293/SW 289/CW 202.3/GW 165/LW158
Justin Warren
Alpha Gamma Rho 843
UTM SGA Justice
START WEIGHT:700+
CURRENT WEIGHT:250
** GOAL WEIGHT:225
Thanks---yes, that does make me feel better. I keep hearing stories from WLS patients who were in the OR and then, bam, they woke up....so, that's what I am hoping for!
Congrats on your great success!!!! And great attitude! See you on the Looser's Bench! Micheala.
Preop Weight 293/SW 289/CW 202.3/GW 165/LW158
I am a nurse and when I went from working a regular full time job to working for a temporary staffing agency, a couple nights before my first assignment I had a dream that I couldn't find the facility I was supposed to work at, then when I did find it, it was a dirty metal building with dirty concrete floors and my job for that shift was going to be to masterbate insane people to keep them under control...they even made me wear coveralls and since I'm a fatty, they didn't have any in my size, so they were way too tight....thank God I woke up before the "work" started!!!
I saw that Oprah too. It was scary!!!
I can still remember that dream like it was yesterday. I was like, but I have my scrubs on, why do I need Coveralls, and the woman in my dream was like, "this is a really messy job, you've got to wear the coveralls." And then she told me what I was gonna have to do and I remember saying (in my dream, "Oh hell no. They didn't tell me I'd have to do anything like tha when they scheduled me for this shift. I'm calling the agency."
