I has an insomnia. Wanna share?

[ghymoreid]

Bleh. I hereby declare "Slipping in and out of consciousness in between dashes to the toilet" to be the worst way to spend a long weekend. Wish I knew what caused it - the baby brought home a gastro virus Thursday night that only kept him and then his dad sick for less than 24 hours each, but I'm still going after three damn days. I didn't eat

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[thecaffeinecat]

I don't think you would get the same answer if ten surgeons were in the room. Everyone has different ideas on how to handle this. Be clear about your priorities and make sure they know you are serious. Some specialists can make the mistake of believing a slow decline is always better than a rollercoaster of Ups and downs. Others seem to get way too enthusiastic about surgery which ends up more a gamble than a fix.

Take a friend, take your husband, take your mum, take notes, question them mercilessly. They are there for you, not the other way round. Know that no matter what you decide, you have my full support.

Now ends my preaching to the choir:p

[mammatash]

i have a grocery shopper in training.
we just won't talk about his trolley steering skills...he's enthusiastic.

i'm glad i didn't get your version of lurgy. my own has left me with a cough...

[ghymoreid]

Not just that anaesthesia is inherently dangerous, but because after my very brief episode under it in November - less than twenty minutes out, minimum dosage needed - I went into pretty serious respiratory distress when I woke up, needing oxygen and support to inhale while at the same time retching with every exhale, and all that nice and scary stuff. So we know that for me anaesthesia is going to be a bigger risk than for most other people. (The surgeon told me that when they had me on the table and the anaesthetist injected the stuff, they watched the red line march its way up my arm as it went in and stood there saying, "Looks like she's sensitive to this stuff, hey." Reassuring, that.)

[siouxsyn]

Are there no other anaesthetic options? None at all?

You know, I reckon "Hairspray" could work pretty well with a wheel-chair-bound Tracey. Maybe next time?

[ghymoreid]

I don't know about other options. I think the general assumption is if I'm allergic/sensitive to one variety of "knock them the fuck out and keep them that way" I'll likely be allergic/sensitive to all of them. There's disassociatives (ketamine for example), but according to missedangel they don't make you not feel the pain, they just make you not tend to remember it (her little one was given some to reset her arm).

Small style guide: the term "wheelchair-bound" is, while sadly still commonly used, not the preferred one. "Wheelchair user" or "in a wheelchair" are better - the word "bound" implies a slavery type situation, when in reality wheelchairs quite often are instruments of freedom that allow us more independence than we'd have without them. :)