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BionicRedneck
March 26th, 2005, 07:05 PM
i was wondering if anyone else besides me was a bad patient during the heart cath and pre and post surgery.

As most know they dont normally knock you completely out for a heart cath. Well after my 1 dose of verced Dr. Samuels proceeded to stick me with the needle in thigh. Everytime he would stick me I would kick him. He said it wasnt a kick like your shooing a dog away from something, he said I would cock and kick and said it didnt feel good on his shouder and rips where I would connect. He finally had to completely put me under.

I dont remember the incident the next day in OR right before surgery but it must have been a gooden. Dad said when they first could see me in ICU the nureses told them I had a bad reputation as a fighter and wildman. Each arm and leg was strapped down to the hospital bed. They wouldnt unstrap me until they knew I wasnt going to try and whoop them. I was thinking to myself that it hurt too bad to try and fight right then. The last thing I remember in the OR and before I woke up in ICU was a woman nurse hollering out "Would somebody please knock him out". Then things started getting really deep and far away and I black out. I guess I was just dazed and still had some fight in me. I was told I tagged someone in the head.

I do remember fighting like crazy when I had the chest tube surgery a week later. I vaguely remember sitting up in the bed swinging my arms and tussling with the nurses. That 30 min surgery and 1 hr recovery took about 1 hour surgery and 4 hours recovery for me.

I guess the anesthesia and other durgs they use does not mix good with me. In my surgery for my shoulder I was telling loud nasty jokes when they gave me something to relax me in the OR before surgery.

Nancy
March 26th, 2005, 07:34 PM
Everyone reacts differently with all the heavy duty stuff they inject you with. Nothing you do "under the influence" is your fault. I'm sure they've seen it all before. Don't feel bad about for one minute. Just remember you're here and that's all that matters.

I remember one time that Joe was being wheeled out of surgery and he was higher than a kite. I think he would have been singing if he had some music. He was promising me all kinds of things :p It wasn't during heart surgery. I guess they wanted to wake him up fast.

A friend was having knee replacement surgery. When she got back to her room, they gave her some IV pain medication. A couple of minutes later, she was exercising her knee saying it didn't hurt at all and started talking very fast and laughing loudly, and joking around with the nurses to beat the band. It was wild. Very shortly, the doctor came in and turned down the IV volume. He had quite a smirk on his face. :D

Barry
March 28th, 2005, 11:43 AM
I deal with pain far better than I deal with revulsion. The catheterization process is totally gross, and I carried on considerably during it - during the process telling my rather annoyed physician that she had only herself to blame, that I had warned her, and it had been her decision not to give me any tranqs.