Watching others get sedated

For the bypass they already had a line in me from the other hospital where I had the heart attack so it was just wheel 'im into the operating room, say hi and lights out. I forgot about 1943 when I was 3 and I tripped and put my head through a window. I remember going directly into a room from the driveway out back of the hospital where they had me get onto a bed of sorts. They wheeled a tank on a hand truck in from another room behind me and when they tried to use it on me they discovered it was empty. I sat up again while waiting a long time for them to produce another and then darkness soon after they put the mask on me. I don't remember the horrible feelings I had 7 years later when they smothered me with ether to steal my adenoids and tonsils. Maybe when I was 3 it wasn't ether they used or I simply don't remember it. What ever they brought in from that other room looked like a single welding tank on a hand truck with a hose coming out the top.

Other smells after the 3yo experience didn't bother me like they did after the ether when I was 10. That was terrible. I couldn't eat what HAD been my favorite food, mashed bananas. I had to give up building model airplanes because the dope had banana oil it and the glue smelled like it too.

Coming out of the ether was very unpleasant. They say ether is alcohol without the water and it was much like sobering up after a serious drunk which of course I knew nothing about at 10 years old. My mouth was dry, my head hurt, my eyes wouldn't focus well and I had the dry heaves. What bothered me most was the eyesight thing. At that age I had 20/15 vision and not being able to see well really bothered the shit out of me. I still had 20/15 at 28 and I sure miss it now. I can no longer read street signs at 100 yards like I used to but I still do not need glasses for driving.

I got my tonsils out in the 50s and remember some kind of mask. For my bypass surgery the guy stuck a needle in my neck and it was lights out instantly.

@Moppys_jalopy .. When I had my knee surgery, I already had a line inserted in the preop cubicle; the doc said,"I am going to sedate you." before I could respond, I was out.

,,, They wheeled a tank on a hand truck in from another room behind me and when they tried to use it on me they discovered it was empty.... What ever they brought in from that other room looked like a single welding tank on a hand truck with a hose coming out the top....

@roscoe I worked in operating rooms in the early 1960s and my guess is that the tank was an oxygen tank, if it was a big tank. If my memory is correct, the tanks with anesthetic gas were usually small enough to carry by hand.

No but I would love to see a pretty young girl get a mask held over her mouth and nose. It would be sexy if shes trying to fight them and they have to hold her down. I love seeing in the movies pretty young women getting kidnapped. A stranger comes up behind them and puts a cloth over their mouth and nose and they fight but the chloraform or either always wins.

Yes I have seen that. And many people have seen it done to me. I have had a few fairly long stays in a few hospitals for stomach surgery, sometimes two to six weeks at a time and have had hospital room roommates who I saw given sedation of various types. I have also seen them shaved, bathed, given catheters, etc

Aside from videos, I have actually been able to watch others be sedated. The reactions have differed, but they’re consistent with what you might see on YouTube.

I've watched a number of people that were screaming and bitching in a psych ward and they got a nice shot of Thorazine. they'd stop bitching about 3 minutes. Those shot put them out for 12 hours. And I've had my share too.

There's the another nurse that pulls ab shot out of her pocket too. She waves it up in the air for everybody to see and you all better shut up too.

And when I had my tonsils. They have us all lined up on cots waiting for surgery and when they text somebody they give me Anastasia before they took them so I seen two or three people that way.