Ok little game. There was a thread started by someone having surgery today and someone stated the last and first thing they heard with anesthesia, so I figured it would be a fun little thread!
I'll go first!
03-09-09
Lap Chole
"Ok feel the edge of the bed here, ok good. Now this side. Do you feel centered?"
nod
CRNA "I am going to push a little medici..."
oxygen off
eyes open
"Ok good, I am going to get you some milk and grahms, then I just need you to pee"
My anesthesiologist came to visit me later and said I did nothing but yammer on when they reversed me about not getting to count backwards :) Thank god it was that and not something goofy about my doc! My mom was so paranoid that she had said something silly during her lap appy that she was more concerned about that on the follow up appointment than the checkup!
For me, it was cervical sutures following bleeding complications from a LEEP.
Cute anaesthesia guy: "We're just going to give you some oxygen."
Me: "Why does it smell so funn....y..." as I watch this scrub tech squirt what looked like iodine in a silver basin.
Waking up, I open my eyes and see a bare *ss across the bed from me and some nurses wiping it up. Then Im out again, and wake up crying and saying, "Im so sorry....so sorrry"
Then I hear the nurse say, "Oh ma'am! Ma'am! You cant be in here right now!"
The "Ma'am" says, "Shes my daughter. I can shut her up for you."
It was my mom....she heard me crying in the waiting room and barged right in. Evidently she got me to shut up because the nurses let her have her way.
I had a bad pregnancy and when my water broke, it was brown. After an emergency c-section I was still heavily sedated. I heard the Paramedics talking about the baby and how it'd only take a few min. to take him to another hospital that had a Neonatal Intensive Care Unit. I heard the baby's heart monitor as it beeped going down the hall. The baby turned out to have Trisomy 13 and died 12 days later in the hospital.
My last surgery was at a Children's Hospital when I was 14 (had my thyroid removed).
I remember being wheeled back to the surgical suite and the unit smelled like popcorn and I thought how unfair that was since I hadn't been able to eat all day.
Then I remember counting back from 10 right beforehand....
Afterward, I remember waking up I guess in the PACU but I all I could do is hear, not respond. I remember hearing another kid screaming and thinking What the heck!?
After I woke up in my room, think the first thing I said was Ow.... then I don't remember much for a while again. :)
Specializes in med-surg, psych, ER, school nurse-CRNP.
I was in for dental surgery during the 80's (pre nursing, just an engineer). They're doing all the pre op meds, and I'm scared out of my wits because my family generally doesn't do sedation well -- we tend to do nasty things like stop breathing, wake up in the middle of surgeries and/or go into anaphlactic shock; I think half of the side effects listed in the med book probably came from some of my hapless ancestors....
So the nurse tells me that in addition to some light sedation, she's going to give me a shot that will "turn off your saliva glands." To this day, I have no idea what she shot into my right buttock, but it hurt, bad. It literally hurt so bad I folded my left foot up under my right thigh to keep my buttock off the gurney.
We get to the OR, and someone looks around, sees that I appear to only have one foot and says, "that's the wrong patient, nobody said anything about an amputation."
25 years old + no prior surgeries + fear + the word *amputation*
I jumped up, forgot my foot was under me (and asleep) and promptly ended up in a heap on the floor, trying crawl around the table and get to the door and kicking at someone who was trying to grab my feet. I remember someone yelling, "put her under before she kicks me to death!"
When I woke up, I remember someone saying, "Don't scare her, she kicks like a mule." i don't know if I actually kicked anyone, but I felt horrible about it for years.
OK, now the whole office thinks I'm crazy! Here I sit, cackling like a setting hen, wiping my eyes, and unable to get the breath to explain. Thanks a heap! LOL
Specializes in med-surg, psych, ER, school nurse-CRNP.
I had my tonsils out when I was 9. I don't recall what they used (wouldn't have made sense to a 9-year-old anyway), but the drug was in the O2, and it smelled funny. I wrinkled my nose, the nurse pulled it back, TOOK A SNIFF, made a face, HANDED IT TO ANOTHER NURSE, who had a hit, and then back on my face. I remember smiling at them, then nothing.
Woke up, sat bolt upright, and started kicking. I remember them saying "Honey, stop now, you're gonna hurt yourself." I laid back down, and POOF, back in my room.
*My father had a colonoscopy done when I was about 23-24, and rolled back into the room offering to give the nurse golf lessons. His EGD (which I was in the suite for) went better, he just couldn't remember eating breakfast after. Even after we got home, "Are you SURE I ate?"
*DH had a wisdom tooth removed. He came out grinning like a possum, missed the Jeep with his foot and almost did a face plant in the seat. I got his seat belt done up, and the rest of the drive home was alternately "Snort....how the **** did I get in here?" and "NO!" which was me screaming at him when he tried to open the Jeep door (at 65 mph).
We get home, he tried to get OUT of the Jeep while still tied down by the seat belt, and then starts channeling Superman and tried to take the 5 steps to our house in one leap.
Sigh, we should have a thread about acting crazy under the effects.
I had a bladder biopsy as a child as I had numerous UTIs but anyway I remember being in the surgical suite and the last thing I heard was a female voice I am figuring it was a nurse saying Dr. so and so was a SOB. I was 10 years old hehe.
First thing I remember waking up was a feeling of having to urniate but nothing there. A lot of dysuria for a couple days. Thats the last surgery I ever had and I am 43.
I just remember that now as a nurse people can hear even when they are being put under for surgery... LOL
Specializes in LTC, CPR instructor, First aid instructor..
My last surgery was for a urethral stirrup in Y2K. I argued with the surgeon about having a spinal. I didn't want one because I have had so many of them in the past and they always hurt so much. Anyway, when all said and done, he injected some versed in my vein so fast it hurt. That knocked me out really fast. The next thing I remember is:
Recovery room nurse; "Her temperature's too low. Turn the heat lamp on and I'll get the heating blanket."
Someone mentioned earlier about what we do while under the influence of other legal drugs. I have a funny story about what happened while I was under the influence of Decadron. Can't take Solu-Medrol. I believe I will start a thread about what we do while under the influence of drugs administered by hospital staff.
I had a bad pregnancy and when my water broke, it was brown. After an emergency c-section I was still heavily sedated. I heard the Paramedics talking about the baby and how it'd only take a few min. to take him to another hospital that had a Neonatal Intensive Care Unit. I heard the baby's heart monitor as it beeped going down the hall. The baby turned out to have Trisomy 13 and died 12 days later in the hospital.
First surgery (I was 13, broke both bones in my left arm)
No clue what the last thing was before I was under, but the first thing I heard was my Mom saying they should take advantage of me being out and tweeze my eyebrows. LOL.
2shihtzus
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For me, it was cervical sutures following bleeding complications from a LEEP.
Cute anaesthesia guy: "We're just going to give you some oxygen."
Me: "Why does it smell so funn....y..." as I watch this scrub tech squirt what looked like iodine in a silver basin.
Waking up, I open my eyes and see a bare *ss across the bed from me and some nurses wiping it up. Then Im out again, and wake up crying and saying, "Im so sorry....so sorrry"
Then I hear the nurse say, "Oh ma'am! Ma'am! You cant be in here right now!"
The "Ma'am" says, "Shes my daughter. I can shut her up for you."
It was my mom....she heard me crying in the waiting room and barged right in. Evidently she got me to shut up because the nurses let her have her way.
Even at 23 I was crying for my mommy! *L*