Mats Holberg 🇺🇦 🇵🇸Mar 20

RE: https://mastodon.social/@Desertdragon/116262515138997498

I’m so sorry about this.

And FYI if you’re a guy like me who puts it off because you don’t like the idea of a colonoscopy’s entry point: I didn’t know they’ll put you under—you just wake up like nothing happened.

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Also, putting the patient completely under is a cultural choice because it embarrasses us so much. You can decline if that’s what scares you. I came to once mid procedure and it was fine — it’s SO medical and routine.

(Last time I was in the patient in the next room was formally declining full anesthesia because he did not want to spend that long unable to care for his spouse. They were both eighty-ish so this was heartwarming and also heartbreaking.)

@Holberg

Mar 20 at 5:21pmWeb
Show threadbookworks đź’™Mar 20
@clew @Holberg I, too, woke up during my first one. I was looking at the image on the screen, all shiny and pink. Someone noticed I guess and said “ oops, back to sleep for you”. Worst is absolutely the prep and I concur it got better over the decade between. Really, have yours if it is at all indicated.
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ha, yes, if anyone was embarassed it was the anesthesiologist

So shiny, so pink! Marble halls!

@bookworks @Holberg