Re: speaking of Western medicine...

Rob Wynne <doc@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> writes:

> What freaked me out about general aenesthesia is the time dilation.  I
> literally had no concept of the time that passed between the time I went
> under and the time I woke up.  In fact, I distinctly remember this
> sentence:
>
> "Ok, I'm going to start the gas so you will start to feel a little are
you
> waking up Mr. Wynne?"
>
> Right at the word "are" the voice changed.  It was 4 hours later.

Interesting.  That was my experience with sedation; with general
anasthesia, I was painfully aware of the length of time it took me to go
under and the slow process of waking up, and both of them were miserable.

-- 
Russ Allbery (rra@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
)             <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>