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hungryTopic: Yours Truly
Not having had surgery before - well surgery where I'm put out anyway because there was that c-section a little over 5 years ago. I was awake for that and as the surgeon commented, "You were more in control. Not really, but it felt like it anyway" so you'd think I'd be very nervous about the upcoming surgery.
Well, I am a bit nervous about the going to sleep part and I'm sure that's because I recently saw the movie COMA - you know the one with Michael Douglas where people in a certain operating room never seem to wake up after surgery. There was a part in that movie where the woman goes in for her D & C and the anesthesiologist explains to someone that after they knock her out they have three minutes to get the tube in her throat or she's a goner. Now, I knew people go out and muscles are relaxed, and I knew that there is a tube in the throat, but it never really dawned on me that ALL muscles are so relaxed and there is a tube in the throat for breathing. Hence the nervousness about being put under.
But I'm actually more nervous about something else. I'm nervous because I won't get to eat after midnight and my surgery isn't until 1:45pm! That's almost 14 hours!!! Four...teen...hours...with...no...food. Piece of cake you may think, but it's not a piece of cake for me. I get migraines and I most often get them from not eating. If you've ever had a migraine, you'll know what I mean. And if you haven't? Well, let's just say you will do anything to avoid that kind of pain. I'm considering eating dinner at 11:45pm on Tuesday night. As a coworker said, "There's nothing that says you can't".
