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**jdynwa** · 04-14-2010, 08:49 PM

Toxic shock. Tunnel vision, no feeling in extremities...

My appendix ruptured (perhaps read: burst), ~2 hours before they put me to sleep for the surgery. I had been in severe pain for perhaps 12 hours before and been to the clinic twice about it prior to the 8am visit when they took a white blood-cell count and sht their pants. I was so late, I was (later) told there was only about a 30% success rate. Thankfully, when they put me to sleep I thought it was routine and was sure I'd be waking in the morning.

A general physician at a geriatric hospital performed the emergency surgery successfully after preping a table that had not been used in I don't know how long; no complaints here. It's probably the closest I've been to death (and I've done some reckless stuff). I actually managed to stand and take the x-ray with no feeling and a tiny hole of vision. I actually managed to stand for the x-ray with no feeling and a tiny spot of vision. I remember asking the nurse "how can I get off the gurney for an x-ray when I can't feel my legs and I can barely see?".

Early during the prep, I had to take a catheter (couldn't pee for a test) without even an aspirin (emergency surgery = no drugs) and didn't feel a thing. T'was later I got the tunnel vision and lost feeling in my arms and legs (I noticed while they tried to stand me for x-rays). I remember asking the nurse, "how can I stand for an x-ray when I can't feel my arms or legs and I can't really see anything?".

When I woke up days later, my mother and a girlfriend from highschool (not the one I married) were in my room. I remember her begging me to open my eyes, and I said that I already had (I lied); then they asked "ok, if you did, then what is on TV". I had heard the credits and answered correctly "inspector gadget". They were then happy and let me sleep another day or so. I was in intensive care, and remember the beep beep machine with the inspector gadget credits. It sucked when they finally took the tubes from my nose to my stomach; I probably should have slept for that.

04-14-2010, 08:49 PM	#12
jdynwa Join Date Nov 2005 Posts 362 Senior Member	Toxic shock. Tunnel vision, no feeling in extremities... My appendix ruptured (perhaps read: burst), ~2 hours before they put me to sleep for the surgery. I had been in severe pain for perhaps 12 hours before and been to the clinic twice about it prior to the 8am visit when they took a white blood-cell count and sht their pants. I was so late, I was (later) told there was only about a 30% success rate. Thankfully, when they put me to sleep I thought it was routine and was sure I'd be waking in the morning. A general physician at a geriatric hospital performed the emergency surgery successfully after preping a table that had not been used in I don't know how long; no complaints here. It's probably the closest I've been to death (and I've done some reckless stuff). I actually managed to stand and take the x-ray with no feeling and a tiny hole of vision. I actually managed to stand for the x-ray with no feeling and a tiny spot of vision. I remember asking the nurse "how can I get off the gurney for an x-ray when I can't feel my legs and I can barely see?". Early during the prep, I had to take a catheter (couldn't pee for a test) without even an aspirin (emergency surgery = no drugs) and didn't feel a thing. T'was later I got the tunnel vision and lost feeling in my arms and legs (I noticed while they tried to stand me for x-rays). I remember asking the nurse, "how can I stand for an x-ray when I can't feel my arms or legs and I can't really see anything?". When I woke up days later, my mother and a girlfriend from highschool (not the one I married) were in my room. I remember her begging me to open my eyes, and I said that I already had (I lied); then they asked "ok, if you did, then what is on TV". I had heard the credits and answered correctly "inspector gadget". They were then happy and let me sleep another day or so. I was in intensive care, and remember the beep beep machine with the inspector gadget credits. It sucked when they finally took the tubes from my nose to my stomach; I probably should have slept for that.
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