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.
Do you know what else has blood in it? Blood.
Spike ,'Sleeper'
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.
§ ita § - Aug 27, 2013 6:18:52 pm PDT #3704 of 30000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
SuziQ - Aug 27, 2013 6:28:59 pm PDT #3705 of 30000
Back tattoos of the mother is that you are absolutely right - Ame
Twilight sleep is conscious sedation
When I had my trigger thumb surgery, they did this for me. A nurse sat on the opposite of hand being operated on and talked to me. I didn't feel anything but I remember chatting with her. At one point they asked me if I wanted to look and I remember being able to see my tendons and move my thumb and see things move and oooooh, so cool, but wait, that is INSIDE ME !
Kat - Aug 27, 2013 6:40:20 pm PDT #3706 of 30000
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
Spending a day every two months in PACU means I get to experience lots of people coming out of anesthesia. The asking again and again and again is totally par for the course.
Twilight sleep uses the same drugs as general anesthesia but in smaller doses.
I also think it's NUTS that I was intubated for a kidney stone procedure where they just kept pinging me to break up the stones but that I was conscious=ish for major abdominal surgery.
Kat - Aug 27, 2013 6:43:29 pm PDT #3707 of 30000
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
Also, an amazing video from the inside of a cockpit of one of the firefighting planes at the Rim Fire: [link]
Connie Neil - Aug 27, 2013 7:41:12 pm PDT #3708 of 30000
brillig
was intubated for a kidney stone procedure where they just kept pinging me to break up the stones but that I was conscious=ish for major abdominal surgery.
I think that's for the convenience of the doctors, so you don't move around and mess up the targeting.
Connie Neil - Aug 27, 2013 7:41:15 pm PDT #3709 of 30000
brillig
was intubated for a kidney stone procedure where they just kept pinging me to break up the stones but that I was conscious=ish for major abdominal surgery.
I think that's for the convenience of the doctors, so you don't move around and mess up the targeting.
beth b - Aug 27, 2013 8:48:09 pm PDT #3710 of 30000
oh joy! Oh Rapture ! I have a brain!
I'm sorry , Scrappy.
Matt has been told more than once to stop watching whatever surgery is happening to his body. His mom was a nurse, and he just likes to see. But they tell him to go back to sleep and he does.
Zenkitty - Aug 27, 2013 8:56:31 pm PDT #3711 of 30000
Every now and then, I think I might actually be a little odd.
I'm really sorry about Zorro, Scrappy.
I wanted to watch my foot surgeries, but they wouldn't let me. Probably just as well.
le nubian - Aug 27, 2013 9:53:44 pm PDT #3712 of 30000
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
Crested Butte
am I the only 12-year-old here? I laughed!
Theodosia - Aug 28, 2013 1:48:58 am PDT #3713 of 30000
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"
Thanks for the How Stuff Works link -- that explains a whole lot! And I see by the notes I wrote down with my pre-procedure call with the nurse (to go over what I had to do with the prep) that the drugs they were going to use were Versed and Fentanyl.
If there IS a next time (probably, if they want a screening every X years from now on), maybe I can talk them out of the Versed, so I can remember. Or else talk them into taping me and my questions. Or let me post on Facebook during, which would be hi-larious. (Maybe not that....)
Actually, I barely remember dressing myself after the procedure, or being walked over to the recovery alcove. I guess I know what it's like to be roofied -- in the safest way possible.