It will be fine. It's a pretty easy drive.

It will be fine. If it were winter, you would want something different, but this time of year, you should be just fine.

Thanks, dcp and Suzi! I don't know why I suddenly started to worry about it, but am glad to be reassured.

The nurses, techs and doctor were all very personable and made me feel like I was in good SAFE hands.

And they had some parts of the system down so very well, like the fact that you got onto one wheeled bed from intake through recovery. It folded up so that you could sit up, and when it was in that position, there was a compartment underneath that was exposed. They have you put all your personal possessions -- clothes, handbag, shoes -- and then, when you are o-u-t for the procedure, the stuff is locked in by the flat bed, and travels with you.

They also give you bed socks, and bring you warmed blankets. Even the insertion of the IV (in the back of my hand -- that's a first for me) went with only the slightest pinch, and I made the nurse laugh by suggesting she give me the sedation first before starting with the needles.

Still, the missing time is kind of weird, particularly because I'm Fact Girl who wants to know everything that is going on. Partly it's a way of controlling my fear, and partly it's just pure curiosity.

Theo, you remind me of the time my dad had some kind of surgery and was entubated and took a while coming completely out of the anesthesia. Every time he'd wake up he'd pester the nurses (through his little white board thingy like in Hush as I recall) to tell him all about how the surgery went, exactly what they did, what the current situation was, and then doze off and go through it all again the next time he was semi-awake because he didn't remember anything. They were awesome about explaining every time and delighted that he was so interested.

Glad it was so well thought out and executed!

Still, the missing time is kind of weird, particularly because I'm Fact Girl who wants to know everything that is going on. Partly it's a way of controlling my fear, and partly it's just pure curiosity.

It's a weird feeling! The anesthesiologist accidentally knocked me out when I was having Jake, and one minute I was saying something to the doctor and the next I was waking up in recovery wondering if I had the baby and what it was.

Oh, Scrappy,mI am so sorry to hear that.

Scrappy, I'm so sorry.

Theo, hope you are feeling better.

I had a whole post that my belly ate about anesthesia. Useless. But I do have a general anesthesia question.

What is considered general anesthesia? Like when I had kidney stone surgery, they put in a breathing tube (as opposed to when I had a c-section and I was awake for the slicing, the moving my stomach to my chest, the yanking the twins out). To me, that is definitely general.

But if they use a benzodiazapine, or something like it, where you aren't out, they don't take over your main bodily functions, is that considered general anesthesia? Or just really good sedation?

I always thought that if it was general, you're knocked out, but if it's local, they numb a specific party of the body.