Filler: Surgeries

[nillion]

Because I'm lazy at times and less lazy at others, I'm going to just cut and paste some some stuff I posted on DC's blog:

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Ah... medical personnel in small rooms. Reminds me of my biopsy.

My mother had freaked out when I got bit by a tick, and had UCLA do a biopsy on my leg. They asked if it were okay to have medical students observe, and since

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[slightfoxing]

All I can say is OUCH! Oweeee, ow, ouch. I think I'd about die if I woke up during an operation. I'd be traumatised for life.

[thejoefish]

she's right there, if i was having an op and i woke up i'd prolly passout in fear...
odd though. I had my wisdom tooth pulled the old fasioned way. Needle in the mouth, big scary clamp and a long heave...

[slightfoxing]

*whimper*

[nillion]

Yeah, but that doesn't work if your wisdom tooth hasn't come out of your jaybone, let alone the gum.

I guess it's a good think I'm not afriad of blood. Not my own, anyway, though it's BSI(body substance isolation) for anyone else's. Heck, I'm not afriad of a lot of stuff.

As for being scared by wakingu p during an operation... I don't think I was in the state of mind to be perturbed.

[nillion]

The biopsy was for rocky mountain fever, actually. And it may have been a good idea, but all the other tests had shown up negative, so I think the reasoning was a bit iffy.

[nekelele_one]

I think I would start squirming. It doesn`t scare me (not on the practical level, since I know that in all likelihood nothing will go wrong), but seeing or hearing about such things sets my imagination running about how it would feel, without being numbed. I have a very good imagination. *squirms*

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