Calli just signed off from the last stream she has planned for at least the next two weeks, on account of she's having knee surgery tomorrow. She's very anxious about the anesthesia, so if you're the "sending vibes" type and you have any to spare for a pink lady who works way too hard, have at it.

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>She's very anxious about the anesthesia

That was me last year when they made me a cyborg*. Whole thing pretty much went as most folks describe it: "Count back from 100," get to 97 before things go black, then wake up in a hospital bed with dry sinuses and the TV changed to something non-threatening like Food Network.

If I have any worries about our rap god, it's that she's gonna try too hard to speed through the recovery and hurt herself in the process. She's one of the hardest workin' reapers in the business after all.

*I had an ICD installed. Felt like they jammed a hockey puck under my skin for the longest time.

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>>She's very anxious about the anesthesia
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>That was me last year when they made me a cyborg*.

Indeed, and me when I had my cancer surgery back in 2012. I got bonus fun in the form of the anesthesia team deciding that they should intubate me before putting me out, and because the operation itself went so wrong, I was still intubated when I came to. What cheerful japes!

>and the TV changed to something non-threatening like Food Network.

Oh man, this reminds me of something that happened a few years ago. My grandfather was hospitalized in his late 80s for... I can't remember exactly what, but thanks to his age and the stage of dementia he'd reached, the hospital clearly didn't expect him to survive. He was unconscious most of the time he was in there, and the TV in his room was showing a loop of Pleasant Nature Scenes. Sunny meadows, birds tending to their nests, moose grazing in a river, all that sort of stuff. It reminded me of nothing so much as the stuff that played on the screen in the euthanasia room in Soylent Green. "You're not gonna make it, so here is a last look at the kind of thing you'll never see again." It made my skin crawl more than just being in a hospital does, and that's saying something.

(And then he did pull through, so fuck you too, hospital.)

My mother's going into the same hospital next week to have a mitral valve replaced, and so help me if that's on in her room when I get in there...

>If I have any worries about our rap god, it's that she's gonna try too
>hard to speed through the recovery and hurt herself in the process.

Heh, half of the chat in her farewell-for-now stream was people harassing her in advance about that very point. I... might have been one of them.

Also, Philip spotted me making a lame joke. One of several that night, if I'm honest. :)

(She was describing how part of her recovery plan called for her to spend time in a hyperbaric chamber, except she couldn't remember the phrase "hyperbaric chamber" and was talking about being "put in a tube". Hence all the jokes along the lines of "ah, that would be the V-tube, then." :)

>*I had an
>ICD
>installed.

Daaaang.

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>>>She's very anxious about the anesthesia
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>>That was me last year when they made me a cyborg*.
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>Indeed, and me when I had my cancer surgery back in 2012.

Weirdly, I had no anxiety about anesthesia when I was under for emergency surgery in 2017. Part of that may have been the intravenous Valium they put me under, part of it was my surgeon was so reassuring, part of it was that I was more scared about why I was there.

But they told me when they put the mask on to count back from ten, and I remember seven. The surgeon told me they were getting a little worried when I got to four...

Ah well. Still, if I knew then what I know now, I would have done a "while you're in the area", and seen if they could give me an orchiectomy along with the debridement for the Fournier's Gangrene (do not google with image search on I beg you) (if you do I take no blame for your reaction).

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If there is a next time I am not going to an urgent care for that kind of thing.

I remember when I had to have an unruly wisdom tooth taken out while under general anesthesia. I was *annoyed* by the cost and some other aspects of the situation, but didn't feel nervous until the part where it seemed like a very large production involving quite a few people for what isn't even the most complicated bit of business I've needed done to my teeth.

Then there was a surprisingly mild needle stuck in my arm, and about a subjective minute later they tell me they're done.

In retrospect, the lack of any 'waking up' process is unnerving. I didn't perceive there as being any discontinuity, but clearly there was one, the tooth isn't there anymore, something has obviously happened.

(Should the lack of 'falling asleep' process also be unnerving? Do other people remember falling asleep? I don't, anyway...)

-IA.

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She said she would do this as soon as they would let her...

... and she only went and did it. :)

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