I would love to have a good laugh as I am sure most of you would as well, at the funny or odd things that happened to us after general anaesthetic for surgery (including testing).
I was born right handed (another poll made me think of this lol), and after my 2nd surgery (3 days after my 1st), I couldn't write in my journal or cross-stich (craft I picked up as I was crazy bored in hospital for few months), with my normal (R) hand! My writing looked like a baby with a pen and I couldn't even get the needle through the hole in my crafts as my hand was so clumsy. So I had a nap figuring it was my meds, when I woke I grabbed my journal and started to write, which I did very well! So I picked up my craft and did this as well. It was supper time that night when mom came in for a visit and I was writing, she was like "GG what the heck are you doing?" I looked down and here I was writing away with my left hand! And had been crafting the same! I have never been able to do that! I could only use my left hand for 2.5 weeks and then woke up one morning and it was back to normal, each time I had switched tho, it wasn't a concious decision, I did it without a thought!
Weird.
Another one was when I woke up and was moved back to the floor and pain under control I wanted a popsicle (as the surgery was on an abcess not in bowel I was allowed clear fluids afterwards), anyway I kept buzzing the nurse for popsicles she would bring it in and I would open it, lay it down and pass out. Apparently I went through an entire 24box of pops!! None were eaten all were placed around me in the bed, under blankets, under pillow, on top of my chest and tummy, even on my legs! They obviously melted too!! When my fav. nurse came in in the morning to check on me she burst out laughing saying I looked like damn rainbow bright!! I was covered in green orange, pink, and purple coloring, literally from my head to my toes!! She had to help clean me up and strip the bed, call housekeeping b/c the juice had dripped off the bed and was everywhere on the floor!! Everything was sticky and full of pops colors, they even had to change all my tubing, ivs and get a new bed with a clean mattress!! LOL
Funny!
THOUGHT THIS MIGHT CHEER UP SOME OF US! Enjoy it!!
GG
I was born right handed (another poll made me think of this lol), and after my 2nd surgery (3 days after my 1st), I couldn't write in my journal or cross-stich (craft I picked up as I was crazy bored in hospital for few months), with my normal (R) hand! My writing looked like a baby with a pen and I couldn't even get the needle through the hole in my crafts as my hand was so clumsy. So I had a nap figuring it was my meds, when I woke I grabbed my journal and started to write, which I did very well! So I picked up my craft and did this as well. It was supper time that night when mom came in for a visit and I was writing, she was like "GG what the heck are you doing?" I looked down and here I was writing away with my left hand! And had been crafting the same! I have never been able to do that! I could only use my left hand for 2.5 weeks and then woke up one morning and it was back to normal, each time I had switched tho, it wasn't a concious decision, I did it without a thought!
Weird.
Another one was when I woke up and was moved back to the floor and pain under control I wanted a popsicle (as the surgery was on an abcess not in bowel I was allowed clear fluids afterwards), anyway I kept buzzing the nurse for popsicles she would bring it in and I would open it, lay it down and pass out. Apparently I went through an entire 24box of pops!! None were eaten all were placed around me in the bed, under blankets, under pillow, on top of my chest and tummy, even on my legs! They obviously melted too!! When my fav. nurse came in in the morning to check on me she burst out laughing saying I looked like damn rainbow bright!! I was covered in green orange, pink, and purple coloring, literally from my head to my toes!! She had to help clean me up and strip the bed, call housekeeping b/c the juice had dripped off the bed and was everywhere on the floor!! Everything was sticky and full of pops colors, they even had to change all my tubing, ivs and get a new bed with a clean mattress!! LOL
Funny!
THOUGHT THIS MIGHT CHEER UP SOME OF US! Enjoy it!!
GG
