75 Incredibly Bizarre Things Patients Uttered Under Anesthesia That Will Shock You
A serious “hold that thought” moment.
“It’s actually both sleep and coma, and can be similar to both states at the same time, depending on where you look. And yet, there is also an element which is just anesthesia uniquely,” she adds.
My dad had an incident where he woke up from anesthesia, and for some reason, his first response was to spit at the nurse. Literally spit at her like a threatened snake. He didn’t even realize that he was doing it until someone told him:
“Mr. Dad, stop spitting at the nurse!”
He felt so bad that he sent her flowers as an apology once he was finally fully aware of himself. It never happened again, but definitely one of the weirder reactions.
Not anesthesiologist, but when my husband had hernia surgery, he was in the recovery/wake-up room for a long time. One of his nurses finally came and got me, sounding exasperated.
“You can come back. We need your help.”
“OMG is he okay?!”
“Well, yes, but he keeps telling us all of his medical stats instead of BREATHING. We need him to remember to breathe or we’ll have to re-intubate him. Can you come and see if you can make him keep breathing?!”
“*laughing* Yeah, that sounds like him. I’m on it.”
I did get him to remember to breathe. Took about an hour to get it consistent. I was quite proud lol.
My ophthalmologist retired this year, but I’ve been going to him since I was a teenager (I’m 46 now) and we had this tradition where I’d always come with some kind of ophthalmology/optometry joke. So right before I was to have surgery to repair a detached retina, they were giving me the medical-grade zzzquil, and I turned to him and the anesthesiologist and said “Hey did you guys know that the eyes are the last part of the body to decompose?”
They both looked at me as I slipped off to dreamland and I said ‘Yeah, they dilate…hahahhahhaha..ZZZZZZZ”.
Different plants and various herbs have been used and experimented with to make sedative mixtures ever since ancient times. Alcohol and illegal substances have also been tried, but they were discouraged because of the risk of people becoming dependent on them. Surgeons also relied on patients to bite down on something, or simply withstand the pain.
My husband woke up after a shoulder thing and asked, “is it fixed? I’m pitching for the Yankees tonight.” He went on to say this about 3 more times before he fully came to and we told him about his joke. His first question? “Did it get a laugh?”.
When I was in nursing school I did a shift in the PACU and this one sweet guy woke up and could ONLY talk about his wife. “is my wife coming? have you seen her?” with puppy dog eyes. “she’s so great ….. where’s my wife? is she here yet?” and when she finally showed up, I told her yeah this dude has done nothing but tell us how much he loves you and how great you are for the last hour. and she kind of rolled her eyes and tossed her head with a little smile like she’s used to this, that’s just how he is. i think of them sometimes when I get cynical about love and marriage lol .
However, on October 16, 1846, dentist William Morton (1819 – 1868) and surgeon John Warren (1778 – 1856) became the first in the world to publicly and successfully demonstrate ether anesthesia for surgery.
Not an anesthesiologist, but my mom told me when i woke up from surgery i spent 20+ minutes ranting to her about how stupid koalas are. i didn’t realize i had such strong opinions about them haha.
My dad did anesthesia, and one of my favorite stories involves a question he would sometimes ask people, to ease their fears and to be funny.
Right as he was inducing, he would sometimes ask them where the money is buried. Usually people would laugh a bit as they fell off to sleep.
One day, a very old woman explained to him, in her last moments of lucidity, that the money is buried just off a certain rural road, in the church graveyard, under a specific tree, next to the. . .lights out.
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