[catherine]

It is interesting, the last thing I remember is the surgeon saying "We need to wait for her heart rate to go down." I was shitting a brick at the time though.

[Andy B]

My missus had that weird White stuff pumped into her. They asked her to count from 10-1. She got as far as Te.....and started snoring with her eyes wide open.

[foot-loose]

They never told me they had injected me. I was busy talking about car racing then the next minute im lying on my back and unable to move from the waist down.

[Yudster]

Are you sure these people were doctors foots?

[Nicola_Red]

I think I normally get to six before I'm out. I remember once waking up in the recovery room still half-drugged and the first thing I said was not 'how did it go' etc, but "oh you have Mr Men posters on the wall, cool..." (they did, I didn't hallucinate them.) I haven't had surgery for *thinks* almost four years now, so that's a long time to me. Next stop hip replacement I suspect!

[MK Chris]

When our coach had his hip replaced, the surgeon knew he played table tennis. When asked how he knew this, he said "because you challenged me to a match for money as you came round."

[Nicola_Red]

Haha. It's so weird the way general anaesthetic affects people. After one particularly long and serious operation I came round with an oxygen mask on, and I'm claustrophobic so I kept pulling it off, not alert enough to think that there might be a good reason to keep it on...

Hopefully I won't need my hip replacement for 10yrs or so. I haven't had it x rayed for a while so I dunno what state it's in at the moment. Fingers crossed it's holding up okay. I don't feel ready to get back into the world of endless hospital visits and physio just yet.

[jocky85]

I had an operation when I was 9 - while I was still asleep the nurses put things on my favourite toy, oxygen mask, heart monitor etc, apparently I kept taking the mask off of it, no recollection of doing this whatsoever!

[Blinko Glick]

Cor blimey - you should see the state of my left hand. where they inserted the canula.
Tis bruised to buggery it is - looks like a road traffic accident this morning.
Every time I look at it, I throw up in my mouth, he exaggerated.

[Nicola_Red]

Ouch. I get that too - I have no veins to speak of.

[Blinko Glick]

Ouch. I get that too - I have no veins to speak of.

Gosh, i thought I exaggerated a tad, but that's amezzin.

I have visions of a wan, pasty individual that needs to feed on the blood of others - are you Nosferatu perchance?

[Zoot]

Ouch. I get that too - I have no veins to speak of.

Gosh, i thought I exaggerated a tad, but that's amezzin.

I have visions of a wan, pasty individual that needs to feed on the blood of others - are you Nosferatu perchance?

Nosferatofu maybe...

[Blinko Glick]

Ooh, is she veggie then?
That'll explain the lack of veins.
No Offence - I used to be veggie too until the doctor sussed that my immune system couldn't function correctly on a meat free diet.
Never looked back - but still can't eat lamb (tastes musty) and pork (smells of wee).

[Yudster]

I know carnivores with bad veins too though, so to be fair to Nic it might not be her diet that makes her so hard to get blood out of.

I had a lovely piece of locally farmed outdoor reared pork on Sunday - it smelled gorgeous. I have never come across pork that smells of wee (although intensively farmed pork certainly isn't nice), but I have often come across supermarket chickens that smell of fish.

[Nicola_Red]

I'm vegan in fact. Nice tofu reference, Zoot! I was only just eating a tofu sandwich i've been veggie for 18yrs and vegan for 11 of those, so my system is in pretty good working order. I am quite pale, but I'm of Irish stock so it's just genetic really. Altho after one pretty serious op (the one with the oxygen mask) I lost 3 pints of blood and had to have a transfusion, they didn't notice I needed it til my heart was going at 130 and when I tried to stand up I fainted! I think I got an idea of how vampires feel after that

[MK Chris]

And there was me thinking he was talking about me.

I love lamb, it's my favourite meat (shame it's so expensive) - and I am a massive carnivore, I eat loads of meat.

[Zoot]

And there was me thinking he was talking about me.

I love lamb, it's my favourite meat (shame it's so expensive) - and I am a massive carnivore, I eat loads of meat.

I'm more of a beef fan but that is also expensive.
Actually, I have no idea how expensive lamb is - is it as expensive as beef?

[Andy B]

I've got bloody great veins me...the nurses don't even need to do that rubber tube thing with me. Seriously, heroin addicts would kill for my veins...if I were an addict it'd be years until I was jacking up into my *.