slightly longer summary
Thursday, February 21st, 2002 09:12 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lapis_lazuli022The basics: It wasn't pleasant, but it wasn't as bad as I expected. According to the doctor, everything looks normal.
I was sedated but aware for the exam. I couldn't feel the probe. I watched it on the screen for a while, which was interesting even though I didn't really understand what I was seeing. ("You are in a maze of twisty turny passages, all alike")
It was all going along fine, and then I suddenly started feeling very intense pain. I complained that it hurt, they gave me more medication, and the next thing I remember I was being wheeled back to my room. The next thing I remember after that, was about two hours later.
The amazing thing about Versed is its amnesiac property. For something like two hours, I was in a loop: I would chat lucidly with Matt for about four minutes, drift off to sleep for a minute, then wake up and ask him the same questions again with no recollection of having just done so, drift off again, and so on.
It still hurts (a LOT) in the place where I felt the pain during the procedure
and I'm a little unsteady, but I'm generally fine. I've just taken some paracetamol with codeine so hopefully the pain will ease off a bit. I've taken today off from work (I warned them that I might need to) and I should probably spend the day in bed - I'm feeling quite banged up and tender on the inside. Still here and in one piece, though, for what it's worth. :)
I was sedated but aware for the exam. I couldn't feel the probe. I watched it on the screen for a while, which was interesting even though I didn't really understand what I was seeing. ("You are in a maze of twisty turny passages, all alike")
It was all going along fine, and then I suddenly started feeling very intense pain. I complained that it hurt, they gave me more medication, and the next thing I remember I was being wheeled back to my room. The next thing I remember after that, was about two hours later.
The amazing thing about Versed is its amnesiac property. For something like two hours, I was in a loop: I would chat lucidly with Matt for about four minutes, drift off to sleep for a minute, then wake up and ask him the same questions again with no recollection of having just done so, drift off again, and so on.
It still hurts (a LOT) in the place where I felt the pain during the procedure
and I'm a little unsteady, but I'm generally fine. I've just taken some paracetamol with codeine so hopefully the pain will ease off a bit. I've taken today off from work (I warned them that I might need to) and I should probably spend the day in bed - I'm feeling quite banged up and tender on the inside. Still here and in one piece, though, for what it's worth. :)
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nice to hear you are back! :)
Date: 2002-02-21 06:59 am (UTC)*hug*
cheer up joke: what´s the difference between a BMW and a hedgehog? In the hedgehog the pricks are on the outside.
Re: nice to hear you are back! :)
Date: 2002-02-21 05:05 pm (UTC)i'm feeling a little better tonight... looks like it's back to work in the morning.
:)
Date: 2002-02-22 03:02 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2002-02-21 07:45 am (UTC)(too bad it wasn't dark enough for the camera to be eaten by a grue, but if you had a grue insideya, then I'd really worry. ;)
*hugs*
XYZZY
Date: 2002-02-21 11:31 am (UTC)*laughs* :)
Don't worry, they make you drink lots of grue repellent before a test like that.
*hugs*
Date: 2002-02-21 08:06 am (UTC)*Emerald*