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  • #1

    The last thing you want to hear...

    ...before surgery

    This happened a little while back when I was 14. I needed to get surgery on my ankle because it would constantly hurt after just short walks. So I'm in the hospital and the nurse is next to me trying to get an IV into me, but she keeps having trouble, so I have been poked about 2 times now. After they get in the IV, they gave me a shot that made me drowsy before going to get anesthesia. Right before they put the mask on me I hear two of the nurses talking to one another about something they have to do during surgery.

    BG: I was supposed to get some sort of pain ball put behind my knee so I would be numb from my knee down for about 3 days after my surgery.

    Well, the nurses were talking about how the never put in a pain ball before and that this would be the firt time for them. Right after I hear that they put the mask on me, and I'm out.

    All in all the surgery went fine, and the pain ball was put in fine, kind of. The pain ball worked, and I did not have to take any of the Vicodin until after it was removed. But removing it was terrible. I have this thing were I dont lke removing objects that are in my body, but the doctor said that only two inches were in. It was ALOT more then 2 inches.
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    you had to remove it yourself? Is that normal?

    Although admittedly I had to do a double-take cos on one of my other message boards they had a thread about things you don't want to hear when waking up during surgery. took me a moment to figure out which board I was on...

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    • #3
      The last thing you want to hear from a doctor...

      "Oh, that's interesting."

      My Mom, with all her medical misadventures, once heard that from a doctor when she was getting some cultures done (or something like that) for this infection she'd gotten in her leg. Mom heard that from the doctor and groaned: "I don't want 'interesting.' I want boring, 'oh, I see this all the time.'"

      Because 'interesting' means getting it treated will probably be more expensive.
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      • #4
        Quoth Jay 2K Winger View Post
        The last thing you want to hear from a doctor...
        Is "Ooops!"
        [/Cos]
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        • #5
          My husband's stepfather went in to get some work done on his sinuses and he woke up to find the surgeon more or less sitting on his chest grinding away with some sort of rasp. He said it was a bit disconcerting as the local was working just fine. They discussed it and decided not to bother resedating him since he wasn't upset by waking up and he just wanted to get it over with.

          I was awake when they did my parathyroid excision because they want you awake and talking during parts of it to make sure that the nerves and vocal cords are not being damaged. My anesthetist needs new jokes [for the past 3 operations at Yale-New Haven I have had the head of anesthetology passing gas, really nice personable doctor. ]
          EVE Online: 99% of the time you sit around waiting for something to happen, but that 1% of action is what hooks people like crack, you don't get interviewed by the BBC for a WoW raid.

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          • #6
            Quoth Jay 2K Winger View Post
            The last thing you want to hear from a doctor...
            "Oh, that's interesting."
            lol. Always thought it was "Oh! I've never seen THAT before."

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            • #7
              Quoth AccountingDrone View Post
              the head of anesthetology passing gas,
              it's 3am and I now have to clean a very yummy cocktail off my phone. Thanks.

              That's what I get for breaking rule 1.
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              • #8
                Quoth Blue Ginger View Post
                it's 3am and I now have to clean a very yummy cocktail off my phone. Thanks.

                That's what I get for breaking rule 1.
                <shrug> Old term, from when anestheisa was ether or chloroform.
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                • #9
                  The term I hate is "medical mystery." I have heard this from numerous doctors for several of my conditions. Why can't it be, "we see this all the time?" I don't want to be the subject of a paper as the first person in Australia to receive experimental treatment on a rare condition, though having that treatment was a lot better than the alternative. I don't like having the numbers of 2 ENT's, 3 physio's, 2 optometrists, and an orthopedic surgeon in my mobile. I don't like to see new GP's, who take one look at my file and immediately say "I think your file has been mixed with someone else's. You're only 35, you can't have this many medical issues." Yes, yes I do.

                  Dad frequently tells the story of a time he went in for surgery. The anesthesiologist was having trouble, and after the third attempt dad asked if he had done this before. The surgeon told dad about the conversation that happened after dad was finally knocked out. Seems the anesthesiologist was upset at dad's comment, and said "I'll show him. Wait until he gets my bill". The surgeon laughed and said, "Do you know who this guy is? He's a member of the local constabulary and I can assure you he can hurt you a lot more that you can hurt him." Luckily dad's bill was just what he was quoted.

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                  • #10
                    I went to a walk in clinic this summer due to a bad case of sudo-Strep *it didn't show as strep on the test*. The very nice Doctor was going through the regular steps and very nice. Till she saw my throat and she pulled back physically and her eyes were . I almost think that reaction was worse then anything I have heard.

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                    • #11
                      Yeah, I've got one of those just now... The doctor basically went "Hmm. Well. Hmmm" a lot. And then said that she didn't have a clue what was going on, other than obviously my thyroid is abnormal, but it didn't look like any goiter she'd ever seen and I'd need to get some tests and see a specialist.

                      Which requires me to first qualify for financial assistance, since I have no insurance whatsoever and am way too poor to just pony up for a heap of tests and a bunch of endocrinologist visits.
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                      • #12
                        Quoth spark View Post
                        Yeah, I've got one of those just now... The doctor basically went "Hmm. Well. Hmmm" a lot.
                        Yeah, I pulled this one today while making a hospice visit.

                        The patient's urine looked like tomato soup. Literally. The wife wanted to know why.

                        It beat the hell out of me. He didn't have any symptoms at all. My best guess is just a lot of sediment, with orange color because it's really concentrated from lack of water intake. So I pulled the "Hmm," card, and turfed the issue to his regular nurse (who will see him Monday) since he had NO symptoms.

                        I thought about getting a sample, but it had been sitting out for awhile so the wife could show it to me, so it was contaminated.

                        I have never seen anything like it before in my nearly 28 years in this job.
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                        • #13
                          I remember the neurosurgeon who took the tumor out of my spine saying they were all fascinated by my MRI. The tumor had been growing very slowly, and in such a way that it actually pushed bone aside as it grew. It wasn't quite paper worthy, but they all apparently thought it was cool.
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                          • #14
                            "Huh, that's odd"...heard during a prenatal visit from the med student doing the exam

                            "Good thing I did a shallow cut, your bladder shouldn't be there"...heard during my c-section

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                            • #15
                              My mother managed to have three brain tumours, one benign and two malignant, which seemed to have grown independently of each other. I believe she was the subject of several papers.
                              "Bring me knitting!" (The Doctor - not the one you were expecting)

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