re: Are you awake for surgeries?

Was it pain or just discomfort?

My had a colonoscopy and they drugged her.

Asleep for two femur surgeries and a kidney stone surgery… Was awake when they pulled out the stent that goes from bladder to kidney.

I was on three Valium. But still, laying there while some dude is shoving something down your dick, and then the sensation of it being pulled out was the most uncomfortable two minutes of my life.

A close second was the two times I had to jerk off in a fertility clinic knowing there’s like three nurses/techs on the other side of the little door making small talk while waiting on me to finish.

Just had my knee done and then had to have a revision. They gave me the option on the 2nd surgery. Put me out.

Had both knees totally replaced in the last year. It is whole like having them amputated and reattached. Out patient hospital, checked in at 400pm and out at 9 am. Medicare coverage is close to all. Exposure to sick people and mrsa is nicely limited. Not awake.
The rehab is where the pain is. You have about 3 weeks before muscles, tendons and cartilage moulds itself permanent. Proper stretching is very painful. Orthopedic guy pushes opioids during rehab to get the most stretch. I would do it again based on results.
A couple weeks ago, had a colonoscopy. Easy put to sleep and rewake. Nurse on the way to preop asked if I need to visit the rest room. I told her I really do not trust a fart. She said she would wait while I was in the rest room.

I was awake for hammertoe surgery.

I hit my toe with a framing hammer several months ago

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You are awake when you get snipped. Ladies are awake for c sections. Ain't no thing as long as you can't feel it

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True, however I got snipped in January and I 100% felt it entirely too much. He gave me four shots in my sack and I still felt it. It wasn’t pleasant at all to be honest.

I was under when I got snipped at Tulane Medical Center.
Counted backward from 100.
Made it to 96, then I was out.
I very clearly remember screaming when my scrotum was sliced.
Anesthesiologist upped the juice and that was it until I woke in recovery.

Yes. It's a necessity since I do my own.

Open heart surgery was the hardest.

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I watched a surgeon buy a car on the phone during HIS PART of the surgery.

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Was fortunate to spend a 6 month rotation at MDAnderson during my residency.

Just so happened that the World Cup was played during this time.

This was before smartphones, so my attending would bring in his laptop and hook it up to the giant monitor in the OR to play World Cup matches.

By the end of cases, the OR would be packed.

During one case, we had to use the monitor for real surgical shite. The crowd heckled us incessantly as we were operating. First in a joking manner, then with an “okay hurry TF up” hostility.

MD fricking Anderson. It was wild