Anyone missing a portion/all of a digit(s)?

[BudAshes]

May 14th, 2016, 3:42pm ET: I met a new client, shook his hand, and he had a toe thumb.

His big toe was removed....and it was his thumb.

I touched his toe thumb....

::thoughts and prayers::

How did it smell?

 

[Fritzo]

How did it smell?

 

[brianmanahan]

I've had a few surgeries including where they knock you out. Shoulder surgery, foot surgery, colonoscopies. It's no biggie, the anesthesia, they are very good at it these days. Wonderful thing, anesthesia.

have you ever wondered if anesthesia effectively kills your consciousness, and by association, you? and you then wake up a completely different person and although it may feel like there was continuity, this is just because the new person retains all the memories of the old person?

i think about this all the time and it freaks me out. i might be on my 3rd or 4th life by now, so might have unwittingly committed suicide 2 or 3 times.

i really REALLY need a colonoscopy done but don't know if i will go through with it because of this.

 

[Muse]

have you ever wondered if anesthesia effectively kills your consciousness, and by association, you? and you then wake up a completely different person and although it may feel like there was continuity, this is just because the new person retains all the memories of the old person?

i think about this all the time and it freaks me out. i might be on my 3rd or 4th life by now, so might have unwittingly committed suicide 2 or 3 times.

i really REALLY need a colonoscopy done but don't know if i will go through with it because of this.

Aw, get over it. You sleep every day, it's very similar and you should not regard it as any different.

When I woke up from my shoulder surgery I was interviewed and informed about what happened during the procedure by the surgeon's assistant. She proclaimed that I was remarkably astute, much more so than what she was used to. It was because I was very involved in the whole thing already.

Anesthesia doesn't scare me in the least. It's one of the most wonderful aspects of modern medicine. Imagine the excruciating pain that surgery used to entail before anesthesia was developed.

My father was an anesthesiologist, which is an M.D. whose job is to both prevent the patient from feeling pain and keep the patient in stable condition during the procedure, which obivously also entails keeping the patient alive. He established relationships with many thousands of people (the patients) over his long career. He'd make rounds every day and talk to patients before their procedures to get a rapport and to determine their condition and assess/analyze/prepare and make appropriate decisions about the upcoming operation.

I have never hesitated or worried about anesthesia in regards to myself. I am so grateful that it's available.

You know, waking up from anesthesia can be very pleasing. Some of those drugs make you feel euphoric.

Get your colonoscopy. The procedure is nothing. I've had several. The preparation to clean out your colon is the only difficulty.

Now who you are! That's another question and a philosophical one and I think you should pursue that. But try to get over any neurosis you might have. In reality you are more than you think, way more... and more than that!

 

[renz20003]

I know I’m an asshole but I couldn’t help myself



Best of luck on your rehab

 

[brianmanahan]

me after seeing the x-ray and then realizing there's more pictures below it:

after 5 years i finally looked at the pictures

#regret

 

[thestrangebrew1]

after 5 years i finally looked at the pictures

#regret

Haha yea pretty gross. About once a year someone asks about it and I show them the pics. Still pretty gnarly to this day!

 

[thestrangebrew1]

Pretty crazy it'll be 6 years since this happened!

 

[DAPUNISHER]

Grab a prosthetic -

I haven't fired a revolver in a fair number of years. I think the last was a .45 Colt double action with Pachmayr grip.

 

[IBMJunkman]

Yea I was waiting to tell the story, but it's kinda hard to explain considering I didnt shoot myself. I had already been shooting a buddy's 460 revolver and reloaded. Went to aim, finger on trigger, and decided I wasnt comfortable with my grip or stance. Shuffled my feet a bit, and stretched my hand open. Apparently I brought my hand forward enough to where my thumb was even with the front of the cylinder, just to the side, and accidentally pulled the trigger. The air and gas shot out the sides and took out the top portion of my thumb. At least thats what was explained to me as to how it happened. No I was not drunk, although I wish I was so I didnt feel the pain as much!

Wheel guns be dangerous.

 

[brianmanahan]

I have never hesitated or worried about anesthesia in regards to myself. I am so grateful that it's available.

You know, waking up from anesthesia can be very pleasing. Some of those drugs make you feel euphoric.

Get your colonoscopy.

i ended up getting it a while ago and they didn't have to knock me all the way out

after they gave me some initial anesthetic, the doctor said to apply the fentanyl!! (like a really time microgram dose)

now that was relaxing, i didn't mind whatever they were doing at all LOL