On Thu, Feb 04, 2010 at 02:29:57PM -0500, Mark Roberts wrote: > Bob W wrote: > > >Best of luck! I've had 8 operations under GA, 6 of them in the last 14 > >years, and it's always rather nerve-wracking before you go in. Last time I > >was being wheeled in it occurred to me that the anaesthetist looked and > >sounded like Dr. Mengele, and the surgeon looked and sounded like Idi Amin. > >Not the happiest of thoughts as you start to feel the drugs swooshing > >around... > > Fascinating. Fortunately, there was no general anesthesia for Lisa: > Block anesthetic plus a sedative did the trick. She's back home and > doing splendidly with 8 screws and a plate in her arm. Airport metal > detectors with her are really gonna be fun...
She'll get used to it. My wife has a stainless steel & tungsten knee (and, later on this year, will be getting a second one). She has a form she shows the TSA folks. On another note - she can also relate to getting the best surgeons. The first time she had to go to the emergency room for something it just so happened that the head of surgery at the hospital was on duty, covering for one of his assistants. So from that point on if my wife had to go in for anything involving surgery the admitting staff noticed the name on the record, and called in the top guns (even, in one case, dragging him in off the golf course). We used to laugh about this - it turned out that the doctor lived next door to some friends of ours, and we met him socially on several occasions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
