I had my knee replaced. I’m glad I was out of it not only for pain mitigation, but I don’t think I could have taken the sound of a power saw and the smell of smoking bone. It gives me the creeps just thinking about what they did in there.
This comic brought back a distant memory, 30+ years ago. My appendix ruptured and required emergency surgery. It was very early Tuesday morning after a holiday long weekend. I was on the exam table in the ER, in a lot of pain, the surgeon starts talking to me..“You need to have an operation to remove your appendix” “Well, I’m busy this week and next, how about next month?” “HeHeHe, you don’t understand, we’re talking you now.”
Anyway, fast forward to the operating room, 4AM or so. I was laying very still and quiet, it hurt to breath let alone move around. The anesthetist had given me the first shot of sleeply drugs and I heard him chatting with the surgeon. “Man I hate these emergency surgeries after a long weekend off….”
I sat straight up and started to climb off the table… “I’ll come back when it is more convenient!!”
They reassured me that it was just idle chat saying the same kinds of things I would have said if the boss called me at 2AM that morning and I had to come to work. It did not mean they would do a less than great job, it just meant they would have rather been sleeping.
Packratjohn Premium Member about 9 years ago
… and ether it is, or it isn’t….
jreckard about 9 years ago
He’s obviously not sawing wood.The patient I mean.
pschearer Premium Member about 9 years ago
What, counting backwards from 100 isn’t good enough anymore?
PICTO about 9 years ago
He moonlights as a tree surgeon.
Chief Inspector about 9 years ago
Dr Black and Nurse Decker
Jim Kerner about 9 years ago
Who has the, “Milk of Amnesia”?
dflak about 9 years ago
I had my knee replaced. I’m glad I was out of it not only for pain mitigation, but I don’t think I could have taken the sound of a power saw and the smell of smoking bone. It gives me the creeps just thinking about what they did in there.
lheifner almost 9 years ago
This comic brought back a distant memory, 30+ years ago. My appendix ruptured and required emergency surgery. It was very early Tuesday morning after a holiday long weekend. I was on the exam table in the ER, in a lot of pain, the surgeon starts talking to me..“You need to have an operation to remove your appendix” “Well, I’m busy this week and next, how about next month?” “HeHeHe, you don’t understand, we’re talking you now.”
Anyway, fast forward to the operating room, 4AM or so. I was laying very still and quiet, it hurt to breath let alone move around. The anesthetist had given me the first shot of sleeply drugs and I heard him chatting with the surgeon. “Man I hate these emergency surgeries after a long weekend off….”
I sat straight up and started to climb off the table… “I’ll come back when it is more convenient!!”
They reassured me that it was just idle chat saying the same kinds of things I would have said if the boss called me at 2AM that morning and I had to come to work. It did not mean they would do a less than great job, it just meant they would have rather been sleeping.