• IninewCrow@lemmy.ca
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    1 year ago

    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.