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I've gone under five times in my life for minor surgeries. Nothing ever happened ... but on the fifth on, it was about the same time I got to know a few long time nurses and a doctor friend of mine. They gave me a huge insight into the medical profession. That was when I realized that one of the things that can happen when you go under is .... you just never wake up.
When you go unconscious, you aren't going to sleep or going into some dream world ... you're more or less dead for a while.
I went into a my fifth surgery to fix a tendon in my arm and it was probably the most scared I'd been as the world went black. As soon as the anaesthetist injected me and told me to count ... the only thing I could think of was that this was the last thing I would ever experience.
Thank you for sharing that fact with the rest of us ๐
It's why local anesthesia is preferred if that is possible, I believe.
I get that, but we're all destined to die. Better to die to anaesthetic than to a bear right? It seems about the most peaceful way to go