To the part about having to explain to men that babies are not delivered within minutes of labor beginning: I was a fairly young mother, (20.) My own mother, who I still lived with at the time, was not mentally in her right mind 85% of the time, and therefore could share little to no motherly knowledge with me. It is scary how clueless I was going into motherhood. When my doctor told me she was sending me from clinic straight to hospital to begin inducing me, around noon one day, I honest to god thought that meant I would have my son in my arms by that evening. Of course, I was horrifically wrong. After 39 long hours of labor, it was decided that I needed an emergency C-section. My boy wouldn’t have made it had I have continued trying to have him “traditionally” for even 30 more minutes. I am eternally grateful to the nursing staff who helped me through my son’s first week of life in that hospital. It’s defiantly not just dads who are clueless about the start to finish process of birth, which is honestly kind of heartbreaking.
I can understand my Mom being clueless about giving birth in 1963 (she was 19). But really is absurd today. Sorry you had a rough time for the birth of your son. Bet you are a great Mom.
I just want to know how these people haven't seen several TV shows where a woman goes into labor. Sure, it tends to go pretty fast in sitcoms, but I remember seeing a few shows where labor went on a while.
Had General Anesthesia, demanded everyone salute me. It was my birthday, so they did. 10/10 best hospital staff in the world. Two days of everyone calling me "General", those guys were great. Laughing after abdominal surgery is a b*tch.
I’d bet money that the guy who said that all the babies in his culture were shaken did not speak English as a first language and that he was mistaking the word shaken for ROCKED.
Markiplier has a video on him waking up from anaesthesia, sweet bastard was just crying while telling everyone how awesome they are and he appreciates them. Like almost bawling about how he loves everyone. We don't deserve that man
Also @ the one about kids getting pushed so hard in sports by their coaches. My best guy friend played baseball which was basically his life. In high school the coaches made them drag heavy weights while running up and down hills. After 4 years of this basically everyday plus whatever workouts he went through when he was younger, he completely and permanently messed up his back and is in constant pain
"Teeth are as important as your heart" yet it's WAY harder to get insurance to cover their care and tooth care is treated as aesthetic rather than full healthcare :thinking emoji:
@@stephaniemontgomery2264 There are places that work on a sliding scale, or there are dental schools that charge you a fraction of the price in exchange for a student working on your teeth, with strict oversight from someone fully qualified. In the meantime, anyone reading this, yes, brush, floss twice daily, BUT also wait at least half an hour before doing so after eating, consider using floruide-containing mouthwash thirty minutes after brushing (such as ACT), and if you can get even basic dental insurance, nearly all of them will cover two checkups, x-rays, and cleanings every year. Check into your state's requirements if your state is generous enough to have expanded Medicaid as well. As for me...been there, suffered that, don't care to endure any more of it. @_@
That paraplegic girl story sounds like straight up abuse. The abuser is endangering her health for his sexual pleasure. I hope they got social services involved.
When I was 6 I had to get my tonsils removed, I had to describe my best friend, I don’t remember it, but my mom did. Because I described my best friend as “she wears glasses uhh she’s kinda goofy looking”
Nurses and motorcycles. I heard this 30 years ago, my aunt and all her friends were trauma nurses at the ER, they had taken me to see return of the Jedi as a kid, we went to eat, they were talking about another organ donor case that morning. I asked what that meant, they stopped the Conversation and Aunt said to me, don't ever get on a motorcycle, when we get the call on a motorcycle accident we call them organ donors because they almost always get so badly injured they die and the hospital has to take their organs for other people if they aren't too messed up, and on a motorcycle it's not a matter of of you'll have an accident but when, even if you don't mess up some jerk in a car or big truck can ruin you in two seconds. 8 years later, driving to work, I cone around a curve, there is a traffic jam, the car in front must not have been looking at the road plows over a motorcycle rider, literally tore his arm off, even with the helmet his face had been broken but he was alive and moaning, most terrifying thing I've ever seen. I love the idea of motorcycles, rode bmx bike till I was 16, you couldn't get me on a motorcycle for all the tea in china.
Years ago, I heard that hospital staff referred to motorcycle riders, especially ones who ride without helmets, as "organ donors." I practically grew up on a motorcycle. Sometimes a motorcycle was the primary means of transportation for my entire family. Okay, so for the first 5½ years of my life, it was just three of us: dad, mom, and myself. Dad was the motorcycle operator, mom was behind him on the passenger seat, and I was on the gas tank between dad's arms, probably holding the handlebars a few inches inside dad's hands (closer to the center). Of course, this was in the 1970s. On a borrowed motor scooter (Honda Spree, IIRC), I got my driver's license for motorcycles about three months before my license for vehicles with two wheels too many (cars, Etc.). My wife and I both have relatives and friends who have been injured or killed in motorcycle wrecks. She won't let me near a motorcycle (except to pose for pictures, one of her BFFs is a rider). In a both loving and firm way she "put her foot down," and motorcycles are verboten as far as I am concerned. I can still ride my bicycle, and I need to return to riding regularly for the sake of my physical fitness and health. Helmet and gloves, for sure. The group I am a member of rides primarily on bike paths, paved trails, and MUPs.
When my mom had to get her gallbladder removed, she asked all the nurses if they could bring her a Coke Zero. When my dad was finally able to see her, she was upset because she didn’t get her Coke Zero 😂
My wife had her teeth pulled and when they got things going the office had chairs that had restraints on them. They started the meds and they put her hands in the restraints and he said, "Sorry we have to do this. If it feels too tight let us know." She responded with, "It's ok. My husband and I do this at home all the time." I could hear them laughing in the waiting room. When they brought her out to recovery the Dr. told me what she said and then she insisted that she wanted to take a picture with him for her memory books! They probably loved getting someone like her!
The first time I was ever put under for a surgery, I couldn't breathe. Either I wasn't used to the feeling of the knockout gas, or they forgot to add on the oxygen, but I could. Not. Breathe. I began flailing and gasping, and then I don't remember anything after that. But I like to think I kept flopping like a fish for a good 30 seconds after that.
The first time I came to after being put under I felt like I couldn't breathe. I woke up coughing and gasping and saying between breaths, "I...can't...breathe!" But the recovery nurse took on a grumpy condescending tone instead of a comforting tone and just said, "Your oxygen is at 100 [%]. You're FINE." After coughing and gasping a bit more and focusing on her shitty attitude I came around. Still not the worst recovery nurse I've had. The one who withheld pain meds when I told her I was still in pain was the worst. For that one my doctor finally came in and asked how I was doing (probably after his next surgery, wondering why I was still there) and he had to prescribe me some NSAIDS because the dang nurse wouldn't give me the full dose of opiods.
When my mom was having a hip replacement surgery, she woke up when they were pounding the spike into her femur. The doctor and the anesthesiologist had a shocked reaction and hurriedly put her under again. Then, while she was in recovery, they had me come in because she wouldn't wake up and they thought she was dying. Fortunately, she recovered nicely and lived about 15 more years. I still miss her every day. Love you, Mom!!
When my brother got his wisdom teeth out, he was very confused, and totally obsessed with the passage of time. He kept telling the same story. Basically "they told me that when I start getting tired just close my eyes and go to sleep. So I was sitting there, not getting tired... Not getting tired... I don't think I'm getting tired... And then I woke up!" Just a befuddled teenaged boy, mumbling through his swollen, gauze filled mouth, repeatedly telling the same story. I'm getting mine out tomorrow, lol, so maybe I'll come back with an interesting story soon.
@@citcat6163 actually, my reaction was probably the most boring reaction ever. Mostly I was just tired, and wanted to go back to sleep. Sorry I don't have a better story. My siblings were very disappointed that I wasn't emotional (like my sister), or confused (like my brother). The most reaction I gave was just grumbling about wanting to go to bed. My sister, on the other hand, was hilariously emotional. When she got home, she tried to take a drink so she could take her medicine, and she couldn't find her mouth, so she was sobbing about that, and when my mom suggested using the mirror so she could see where her mouth was, she started crying because "why didn't I think of that??" I still feel bad for laughing about it, but it was impossible not to laugh.
I was waiting on an uber when it started pouring down rain. When I got into the car, the lady told me that when I get home I need to bathe myself in rubbing alcohol so that I don’t get a cold . . .
When I was being put under for anesthesia before my brain surgery I said to my anesthesiologist, and my mother *who was going to be the surgeon* "I love mayo and my face feels like static"
When I was waking up from nose surgery one of the assistants bumped my bed a bunch of times with the doors when he was moving me from the OR to my room and I was really mad at him. My dad was there and was laughing because I told the assistant he was an (imbecile?) (I am argentian and the word I actually used was boludo wich translated is funny like big balls but means sort of like stupid or imbecile?) Then I got mad at my dad for laughing at me and told him he was an asshole and flipped him the bird then went on to sleep again. I REMEMBERED EVERYTHING! When I woke I was really embarrased and apologized to my dad....
I remember getting my wisdom teeth removed. All I remember was I was sitting in this chair and the nurse said " have you ever had hard alcohol before?" I explained in a different county that I had. I was 18/19 at the time. So she asked me count backwards from 10. So I did. 10, 9, etc. Got to about 6 and felt this god awful burning in my throat and I was out. All I remember was waking up in a chair and being really out of it. I don't recall saying anything funny. I'm sure I didnt.
I never have exciting anaesthesia stories :( I did observe my anaesthesiologist and nurse low key freaking out because my iv canula malfunctioned and the sleepy juice wasn't going into my hand but all over it instead. It was a bit tense.
I've been put under anaesthesia 3 times now, no funny stories here :/ Then again I don't talk much and was dealing with crippling anxiety at the time, so like 99% of my focus was on appearing as casual and polite as possible lol
i wasnt even being put under. i cut my thumb bad and they were numbing it and i get extremely giddy when im nervous, so i thought about my cat so maybe id calm down, my cat got surgery before, to be neutred. i exlaimed "AND HIS BALLS FELL OFF!" randomly and i think everyone thought i was on drugs.
I dont either. My body fights it while under,clears it quickly. I dont get nausea or anything. My mind is clear. Im typically hungry straight outta recovery. My ex always knew when i was out of recovery as i was begging for food and mt dew.😁
Me neither. But my sleep med is a benzo so I like to think that I have some sort of tolerance due to that. I woke up super itchy once and asked my recovery nurse to scratch my back (had surgery on one arm and IV in the other...I couldn't reach); she said yes because we were former neighbors (we hadn't seen each other in over a decade though, since I was a kid). That was a weird night...
Heres a little advice - dont look directly into the sun or you'll burn your rectum. . . . And what? Hit me with your rythm strip? What if someone has a pet salamander der? Oh, and I cannot stress the importance enough to have a legal DNR drawn up. Theres too much high road people trying to extend a life that's not a life.
I cried at most of these stories of people passing away but the one with people running through the hospital screaming for some reason got me to laugh. I remember wanting to do the same the day before my grandfather passed away. I told myself that he was OK and when I saw my cousins face in full tears I knew I was a freaking moron thinking a 92 year old admitted to a hospital was going to survive. R.I.P. Grandpa and Grandma
I do as well, and I was still able to get an MRI on my head when I had bad headaches. If ever a doctor recommends an MRI just let them know about it so they can check - just in case!
Story told by my parents after my dad had hernia surgery before he retired. Mom wants to stay in the room with him overnight but due to her bones she needs a bed for the night so they ask to pay for an upgrade at the medical center. Mom's talking to the nurse, dad's still barely an half hour post-surgery and was barely lucid. Nurse lists the prices for all upgrades for rooms with 2 beds. When the price gets too high for my dad's ears he asks the nurse: "For that much, can you stay in the room instead of my wife?" Even mom laughed... after a week. In retrospect, it's the fastest decision my mom's made money-wise and proof that all 4 of us kids got our sense of humor from our dad. Ex-girlfriend had dental surgery to have all her wisdom teeth removed. She was under general and when her dad picked her up to help her to the car, she almost did a crocodile roll in his arms and bit him (Her sister passed that one on to me.)
This was a roller coaster, but I’m so glad it finished with laughs 😂 My best friend was still waking up from wisdom teeth surgery. We were able to get her to the car, and she said, “the doctor is a leprechaun, and he gave me tacos and weed. Weed tacos!” (She is completely Christian along with all of her family who were there to whiteness it). I was dying of laughter 🤣 I’m so upset I didn’t have the camera rolling!
When I was coming out of anesthesia after nose surgery, I was allowed to have a cup of ice. Similar to the gatorade boy, I spilled about half the cup onto the floor and had *absolutely ZERO* clue how I could make it not be on the floor again. Looking back on it, I could have picked it up, swept it into a dustpan, let it melt and mopped it up… none of those ideas came into my head. I just had no clue how to fix what I’d just done.
On the anesthesia story when I was younger I had a lot of surgeries and I remember once telling the person helping me with the mask that I didn’t like that one because it stank LOL. Another story I hear a lot about is when I was maybe six or eight months old and I was supposed to have had surgery at around nine in the morning but due to a series of other issues did not receive it until about 6 o’clock in the evening. When I was coming into recovery apparently I wasn’t very happy and I was just in baby language and the nurses were calling nurses and doctors from every other floor to watch and listen to Mikasa mouth LOL
Anesthesia? Oh geez. I went with a friend to get her wisdom teeth out and when she came out to the waiting room she was acting like a celebrity, all “no autographs” and “no need to thank me.” Finally she let slip that “Cheerios are my best invention.” She thought that she’d invented Cheerios and was famous for it.
For the anesthesia one, I woke up from my gallbladder surgery, and the interaction with my mom went like this. Mom: Hey baby, how are you feeling? Me: Did I bleed on the doctors? Mom: Uhh, yes? It was a surgery Me: No, did I (gestures to my crotch area) BLEED on them? Mom: No, baby, they weren't anywhere near there. Me: That's nice. I don't think they make "sorry I mensturated on you" fruit baskets.
Legit on the sleep tho, I had med issues that basically made me not sleep properly for a couple years, and the therapist I went to initially thought I had a personality disorder (think bipolar), and the psych arnp she referred me to figured out the med issues.
I'm glad you got your med and sleep issues fixed, but I just wanted to let you know that bipolar disorder is not a personality disorder. It is a mood disorder. They are two distinct and very different disorders. That is all. 😊😊 The more you know 🌈⭐
When I had my wisdom teeth taken out the first thing I remember afterwards was feeling something soft and not knowing whether it was my thumb, my Timon plushie, the bedding, some stray gauze, or some other thing. (It ended up being Timon, confirmed when I opened my eyes and blinked a lot.) Then I heard the medical professionals talking to my mom telling her that I was out for a solid 30 minutes after the procedure was done.
1:04:07 I had a similar thing happen to me when I was younger (I'm not sure how old I was but I know it was before I hit the double digits) and went to the dentists for something like getting a cap put on or dealing with cavities or whatever. I was conscious throughout the entire thing and completely lucid but didn't really feel anything too much since they had numbed my mouth. So when everything was all said and done my mom tried to guide me to the car but I kept on trying to get away from her (I am (albeit undiagnosed at the time) mildly autistic and hate it when people touch me unless I initiate or maybe if I'm really upset in which case I still might not like it/be comfortable but I'll allow it because I can't bring myself to push them away) and walk on my own because I was completely fine (in fact I was actually *_BETTER_* than normal because the anesthesia completely balanced out my ADHD and severe anxiety so I was pretty much a completely normal kid for once). In fact, when my mom said that I might have problems walking I went out of my way to literally hop, skip, and jump to the car without so much as a hint of being dizzy just to show that I was fine. I should also mention that I am a redhead and have been taking extremely high dosages of medicine (to the point that my doctors are concerned that it could have negative effects on me) ever since I was a kid so I tend to have a really high tolerance for a lot of things but this actually caused my mom to look into similar kinds of medicines I could take to help with my anxiety.
Huh. I'm a redhead too, not technically diagnosed but my doctor agrees that I have a few traits of the spectrum (still live my own life on my own regardless; it's just enough to eff up my senses and make me not want to be around people), but my mind just never really shuts down with anesthesia. I kept up a continual internal dialogue but just lost a sense of time...suddenly the dentist was finishing up with my mouth when my mind snapped awake with immediate clarity. It really made them uneasy! I held a perfectly coherent conversation about meds, care of my mouth, prescriptions, all of it. It was like I'd never been under at all. Yeah, they were freaked out, as it just didn't seem normal to them. I remember the entire ride home except for the strange oddity of my not being able to make sense of the map (Dad brought me in, but wouldn't use a GPS). I am very good with maps, but it was suddenly alien to me. Very strange. It was the only blip, because I stopped by for my prescriptions and remembered to purchase salt and a syringe to help irrigate the back of my mouth after eating. I guess it is not normal to just snap back awake like flipping a light switch.
@@ZeoViolet Yeah, apparently redheads tend to have higher tolerances for anesthesia and stuff. Plus it can sometimes make it so that they don't get dizzy (I also have this) and so that plus my ADHD might have had something to do with it.
I was completely lucid and coherent after I got my wisdom teeth out, my mom was not pleased because both my brother and I were like that so she had no funny stories from us. The we have when I got jaw surgery at the end of march 2023. I woke up and when I found out I could still kinda talk(We didn't think I'd be able too because of the bands I had keeping my mouth shut) I was again largely lucid and politely asking the nurses in the recovery room for help adjusting my ice pack and when I would be able to see my parents.. I was originally told they would be with me when I woke up but since I was staying over night they had me in a different room to wake up. So you literally you just have this 20 year old girl a few hours post op politely saying in my muffled voice still saying "excuse me", "please", and "thank you" every time someone helps me. You just have me with this ice pack occasionally draining the blood and spit out of my mouth with this little suction thing they gave me as I waited, often making little requests for hugs whenever a nurse came by because I needed the comfort since my parents weren't there. The nurses were all super nice and did everything they could to help me and I even remember them repeatedly calling up to see if my room was ready so I could go be with my parents. I even thanked the guy who wheeled me up to my room which is how my parents found out I could talk. We also learned the next morning when my doctor came in to check on me that the nurses in the post op recovery room were definitely relieved to have me because her previous patient woke up swinging. So in a nutshell we learned that I am still very much lucid coming out of anesthesia and maintain my personality in full.
To people that wonder what may happen to baby's when the mother drinks while it's being grown I am one and i was born with a less tragic cause but i had a cleft pallet missing a bone in my jaw and had a huge gap in my lips and am friends with another one who had the same proble but a bit worse like missing fingers ect• so pregnant women DONT DRINK it will effect ur childs life forever
One time I had to have a cavity filled and they had me on the laughing gas and Frozen was on. A few minutes after the operation, my mom asked me if I could tell her what was happening in the movie. Sleepily, I managed to say, “Olafvfvfv...singing.”
People who still smoke around kids, THIRTY YEARS after it's been proven to be harmful, are the worst. I get it, they're old and addicted, and only 10% of people who try to quit succeed, but you can’t hold off until the kids go home? Seriously?
They hadn't put me under for my wisdom teeth, just laughing gas... omg it hurt so bad, and one cracked. I heard the dr say oh 💩 and they just gave me more novicane. Come to find out I'm allergic to novicane so it was making the pain worse. They had to knock me out to remove teeth to get dentures... I remember the pain from the novicane needle then a sharp pain as they were pulling a tooth... apparently it was the last one so the anesthesia was lessened. I was instantly awake from the pain but missed every thing else.
Old joke - coy doctor told patient to put the suppository in his back package. Guy comes back a fortnight later grumbling about no improvement. Doc asks about the suppository and guy says " Dont have a back passage so I put it in the front hall, but for all the good its done I might as well stuck it up my arse"
M y mom was an RN. I’ve always taken medication a doctor has given me, but I did ask if I had to take the pain meds or if that was just for comfort. I find pain meds fuck with my stomach and I’d honestly rather be in pain and not move for a while than take the meds.
Wow it's truly amazing how oblivious people can be - that's a polite way of saying stupid. I'm a pediatric nurse and see ALOT of crazy shit. We have a mom who, no matter how many different providers explained it to her, would not follow her severe asthmatic son's regimen so he'd end up with us getting at least weekly and a few ED stunts yearly too - all because she wouldn't give him his daily preventative inhaler. She'd wait until he was symptomatic to give him his rescue inhaler and act completely freaked and oblivious when he'd be in a dangerous asthma attack! Wtf? Oh we also have a mom who doesn't believe in viruses and thinks antibiotics cure everything. I also had this adorable 18 year old boy who we needed urine from just for a basic urinalysis and he put water in the cup instead thinking we were drug testing him! I went back and asked him for real pee and assured him we couldn't and wouldn't drug test him without his consent - because you're 18 dude!! So funny! I also think it's odd when I ask a 17 year old girl when her last menstrual cycle was and she looks to her mother for the answer. Oh and the antivaxxer moms are ALWAYS huge germaphobes - uh what do you think vaccines are protecting your kids (and others) against in the first place?!
I didn’t even notice when I knocked out from the anesthesia before my colonoscopy but the very next second I’m waking up post surgery. Very cool. Got up and got out as fast as I could and like an hour later I’m eating a bacon cheeseburger deluxe 😋 after all the prep I deserved it
I will admit to forgetting to take the second, nighttime dose of one of my meds, but it's new, and it's been a while since I've taken nighttime meds, so...
When I was 10 I had my 2° foot surgery (out of four) and they put me on general anesthesia because the surgery before they used partial anesthesia and I got so traumatized by the giant needle that I can't see a syringe even now, even in films, without screaming bloody murder and flow out of the room. Vaccines weren't funny and my last blood exam was in 2013 (for surgery 4). When I waked up and saw that the surgery was already done, I tried to jump out of bed and demanded that they bring me again in the operating room because I wanted to see the surgery being done and wrapped like the previous time (they let me see the wound closed and they let me help them putting gauze on it and wrapping it up). I trashed around so much that my mum was crying desperately trying to pin me down on the bed. Surgery 3 was definitely a disaster but it's too long to tell and English isn't my first language.
29:28 THIS SHIT!! My legs are permanently fucked up bc of a shitty teacher in highschool who knew JACK ALL about physiology or how to safely teach/instruct/coach any kind of physical activity. Like it's been a decade and my hamstrings are still as fucked as they were a year after I had him. I literally have to do intensive stretches at least once a day or else they cramp up painfully to the point that I can barely walk!! It's fucking ridiculous.
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