Oh, Scrappy,mI am so sorry to hear that.
Buffy. When I saw you stop the world from, you know, ending, I just assumed that was a big week for you. Turns out I suddenly find myself needing to know the plural of 'apocalypse.'
Riley ,'Potential'
Natter 72: We Were Unprepared for This
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.
WindSparrow - Aug 27, 2013 5:01:07 pm PDT #3695 of 30000
Love is stronger than death and harder than sorrow. Those who practice it are fierce like the light of stars traveling eons to pierce the night.
Maria - Aug 27, 2013 5:30:05 pm PDT #3696 of 30000
Not so nice is that I'm about to ruin a Friday morning for a bunch of people because of a series of unfortunate events and an upset foreign government. - shrift
Scrappy, I'm so sorry.
Kat - Aug 27, 2013 5:38:54 pm PDT #3697 of 30000
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
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?
Vortex - Aug 27, 2013 5:44:34 pm PDT #3698 of 30000
"Cry havoc and let slip the boobs of war!" -- Miracleman
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.
Amy - Aug 27, 2013 5:51:29 pm PDT #3699 of 30000
Because books.
The "twilight sleep" thing is what confuses me.
Jessica - Aug 27, 2013 6:01:32 pm PDT #3700 of 30000
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
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'm pretty sure it's not considered anaesthesia if you're technically awake. With Dylan I had a local anaesthetic (via the epidural line) and then ketamine on top of it. So I was numbed at the surgical site AND really fucking high.
Kat - Aug 27, 2013 6:05:15 pm PDT #3701 of 30000
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
Jessica, me too. I ask because my friend's niece (age 5) need a piece of rust removed from her cornea. My friend said, "They are going to use general anesthesia" and I thought, "probably not." Because in my world general anesthesia usually involves an IV and/or a breathing tube.
When they pulled Noah's tooth they gave him Versed which made him loopy, then something else for the pain.
I guess that's the twilight sleep thing?
Kat - Aug 27, 2013 6:08:31 pm PDT #3702 of 30000
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
Oh! How stuff works has the answer: [link]
Aims - Aug 27, 2013 6:11:07 pm PDT #3703 of 30000
Shit's all sorts of different now.
The "twilight sleep" thing is what confuses me.
I kind of had the twilight sleep when I dislocated my shoulder two years ago. They gave me propofol and I was totally awake and talking, but remembered nothing after. It's classed as a general anesthetic.
It was awesome. I was, according to the tales, ridiculously high and did a nice 15 minute stand up routine about teaching, Twilight, and Harry Potter fanfic.
§ ita § - Aug 27, 2013 6:18:52 pm PDT #3704 of 30000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Twilight sleep is conscious sedation. Run of the mill sedation has you unconscious. You didn't experience shit, as opposed to forgot it. At least so far, with me. Nerve procedures--versed+some other stuff, mostly time goes quickly and I don't care. Appendix--no time passed between me counting back from 100, and me asking the nurses what time it was. Again and again and again. They were not nice about it.