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Originally Posted by zelda_pinwheel
oh my god you are insane. i had a cyst removed once (under local anesthetic, although i did beg for general, because i'm a big baby) and at the end the surgeon wanted to show me what he removed, and i clapped my hand over my eyes and shouted "no don't show me i don't want to see take it away !!!!"  i'm sure he respected me less after that but i really don't care.
on the other hand saved the tooth that i had pulled. it's in my magic box.  |
Well, I've seen a lot of surgeries and autopsies ... and really, the fact that it's actually "you" under the knife (except if was an autopsy, I suppose) isn't much of a much. I've had them bring me out of anesthesia before so I could watch. Sort of like watching a science special on the TV while on some really good drugs.
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Originally Posted by ShortNCuddlyAm
That actually does sound rather cool.
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Oh it was .... it was.
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Originally Posted by Ralph Sir Edward
You're no fun. Back at university, I used to put Soroity girls under the table when giving blood by asking to watch it come out... Then I'd get an old battle-axe med-tech with no sense of humor at all..... (I was really annoyed that after I had a bone tumor removed at age 17, they wouldn't let me see it after the path report. And the pathologist wa my uncle! No sense of whimsy at all!)
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Now see, when I was up at Mammoth Lakes (many years ago), I had to train the new phlebotomists, and the only way to do that was to act as the demo dummy for them to make practice sticks.
I can't tell you how much fun it is to have some total newbie pointing a large needle in your general direction, with their hands shaking and sweating, eyes as big as golf balls. I'd sit there and show them exactly how to place the tourniquet, and how to palpate the veins, how to pick a good one, how to swab and prepare the arm, and then the best way to do needle placement without scarring the vein. Step by step, quietly, explaining to them that they would not kill me even if they screwed up royally, and that better they should screw up on me than on a patient. By the time they were out with the patients, they were damn good ... old pros.