Re: CHAT: Elective surgery (was: Interbeing)

Lars Henrik Mathiesen wrote:

> Now meditate on how to do a local anesthetic of the affected part...

The penile surgery that I underwent involved a combination of local
(actually spinal) anaesthetic and "twilight sleep" drugs.  My surgeon
would have preferred a general anaesthetic, but based on my bad
after-reaction to my last general, the anaesthesiologist chose the
combination.  The only problem was that the surgery ran longer than
expected, and the spinal wore off before the surgeon was *quite*
finished.

I didn't feel pain, exactly, rather discomfort and a sense of being,
well, manipulated.



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