My dad wants to see the pictures. And if given the option, wants to be awake so he can watch.
I'd guess it kinda makes sense (the pictures, not my dad) from an info-gathering perspective.
How's she feeling?
Oh! I know this one! 'Slaying entails certain sacrifices, blah blah blahbity blah, I'm so stuffy, gimme a scone.'
Buffy ,'Help'
Natter Area 51: The Truthiness Is in Here
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
sarameg - May 09, 2007 4:18:04 pm PDT #6488 of 10001
§ ita § - May 09, 2007 4:29:25 pm PDT #6489 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
No, she's a photography buff.
My sister doesn't mind in the least, but I'm not sure if the doc asked permission.
Sister seems to be mostly fine. Dazed. I found myself going into too much detail asking about medication and fibroid size and location. Then I remembered to ask about her as a person. Okay, I guess.
Scrappy - May 09, 2007 4:34:15 pm PDT #6490 of 10001
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
I think they photograph a lot of surgeries now, for recordkeeping. I know they gave me a LOVELY picture of my uterus and ovaries, et al.
sarameg - May 09, 2007 4:37:34 pm PDT #6491 of 10001
Did you cast an evil eye on them, Robin? Burn the image in effigy?
I'm glad ita's sister is doing OK.
brenda m - May 09, 2007 4:37:57 pm PDT #6492 of 10001
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there
I would totally want pictures.
amych - May 09, 2007 4:42:27 pm PDT #6493 of 10001
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
Yeah, I'd want the pictures too. I had one friend who asked to have her knee reconstruction done under an epidural instead of general so's she could watch -- compared to that, a couple of snapshots seems so easy.
JenP - May 09, 2007 4:48:51 pm PDT #6494 of 10001
I didn't get any pictures, and I'm OK with that. Though now I'm wondering whether there are pictures. I know there's frozen tumor tissue out there somewhere, which I think is just weird.
brenda m - May 09, 2007 4:57:13 pm PDT #6495 of 10001
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there
Okay, the dog is walking around the living room tipping things over.
Not accidentally.
She's going around the room, and things that can tip, she's reaching out a paw and tipping them.
§ ita § - May 09, 2007 4:59:10 pm PDT #6496 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I was awake for the last thing they removed from me, so no need for pictures. As of pictures of me instead, no. Lying in a pool of my own blood smelling my flesh burn--that's going to stay with me forever, even without a visual to round it out.
It was the photography buff thing that made me wrinkle my nose. Unconscious and unasked, I'm no one's model.
sarameg - May 09, 2007 5:09:43 pm PDT #6497 of 10001
brenda, your dog has become a cat.
Lying in a pool of my own blood smelling my flesh burn--that's going to stay with me forever, even without a visual to round it out.
Aaaaack!
Dad thought his hand re-breaking was so cooool! "They used a hammer and a chisel! Just like the ones I have! The pin made a splooshy sound going it!"
Me? I've had foot surgery thrice. Once to remove a piece of glass and the other two times to burn out plantars warts. I can do without the smells and sounds and relayed sensations (I could feel in parts not numb that they were cutting parts that had ridges and can still cringe as the sensation of metal running into glass.) I really hated the crunching and sucking when I had my wisdom teeth out. I've never had general, but I wish I had. Especially on the latter.