kids and aneasthetics

[andymurph]

well it's the third time i've had to do it and it don't get any easier- just taken the daughter to have her tonsils out. When you are hold of them in the anaesthetic room and the stuff goes in and they go all glassy eyed and limp, it's like watching your dog get put down, awful awful feeling. Hope i don't have to do many more and hope you lot don't either:(

[tigger 2]

Been there with my boys,most awful feeling just watching...:( argh..

[Mogwyth]

Yep not very nice whether it's you own or other peoples kids. I am often in Theatres.

[discorich]

i wouldnt like it if my boy ever had to have it done

[Roger Whittle]

For years and years, I couldn't watch kids being scanned on any of 'my' scanners, but now I know that whatever they have, the kit I look after is the modality of choice for their problem. When I first started, CT scanners were like rocking horse poo and the 'conventional x-ray' method of diagnosing say, a brain haemorage or a tumour was - not to put too fine a point on it - horrific. People died as a result of the diagnosis.

Now, I can watch frightened little eight year olds being positioned on the table, because I know that, given they are ill, there is no better place for them to be to find out how.

The same goes for modern anaesthesia. It is vastly different from what it was even fifteen years ago. It looks ugly when they are out, but getting them into that condition and waking them up again afterwards is nowhere near as frightening as it used to be. Just think - when they are out, they are not as upset about it as you are and when they wake up, they will be warm, unconcerned and really quite comfortable. :)

Roger.

[Mogwyth]

Just think - when they are out, they are not as upset about it as you are and when they wake up, they will be warm, unconcerned and really quite comfortable. :)

Roger.

You obviously haven't spent enough time in or near recovery Roger, some of the kids scream the place down when they come round.

How's the vehicle hunt coming on?

[skip2]

Know how you feel mate as been though it with, not a nice feeling and don't get any easier with time.

[Roger Whittle]

You obviously haven't spent enough time in or near recovery Roger, some of the kids scream the place down when they come round.

How's the vehicle hunt coming on?

I know what you mean Bill, but the last time I had a general (in March) I was amazed at how good I felt when I came round. Genuinely comfortable, no pain whatever, warm and cosy and if I wanted to nod off I could. I wish ordinary mornings were so nice. :(

Disco's to my spec appear to be few and far between, but there's a nice face lift 02 plate in the Ashdown Forest which, if its still there tomorrow, I may go and see with a view to puting a deposit on. :)

Roger.

[andymurph]

well we're back home with her and as expected she's a bit sore, but none the worse for wear. as you say, more modern aneasthetics do let them come round a bit easier. now i just got to get treatment for the numb backside, bad back and crick in the neck from having sat in a chair trying to get a bit of kip all night with her