The LMM's account of the morning I had my eye surgery.
MM's SETUP:
Had not eaten for quite a while, was pretty nervous. The nurse tried to put the needle into the large (but highly wiggly) veins on the back of my hand. She missed, missed, missed again, and then just tried to pursue the vein around, digging the needle into my hand and wrist.
I could feel myself getting dizzy. Then really dizzy. So I said, "I'm getting dizzy." And then a few minutes later I woke up, with several doctors standing around me. And with an oxygen tube in my nose. Apparently I had taken a short vacation away from consciousness.
LMM's ACCOUNT:
Nurse, Mary, commented we didn't have a "chair" (which was actually a bed) in our holding pen (my description of waiting area). She said she'd start the IV with you sitting up in a real chair. She asked if I was ok watching her put in the IV. I said no and turned around. You said you were fine. Mary started slapping your hand to get a vein in your lower left wrist. Think she said darn or something like that, said the vein had rolled, that is sometimes does. Said she was sorry, asked if you were ok. At first you said yes. She kept saying she had it in there but it rolled. By this time another nurse had brought in the "chair." Mary nurse started to try to get the vein again.
You said you were starting to feel dizzy and perhaps she should try while you were laying down. Even as you said you were dizzy, I could see your eyes rolling back in your head. The nurse had turned her away from you. Your head went back and I yelled, "he's fainting." She turned around and yelled for a doctor. Dr. Ramos, the anthesiologist, came in and muttered something in doctor language to Mary about what was happening to you.
He walked up to you and slapped both side of your face, yelling Mr. Munger, wake up or are you in there, something like that. He then yelled for another doctor, Dave. With your head back and your face absolutely placid, you then started snorted as if you couldn't breath. Dave hadn't come yet and I yelled for him to come.
Dr. Ramos said to bag you and he and Mary gave you oxygen. Then you started to come to and didn't remember a thing, vaguely remembering you had said you felt a little dizzy. Mary then put you in the bed and had another nurse, Melissa, come in to put in the IV. Mary said she learned her lesson not to start an IV in a chair again. When you passed out you looked just like you did in Chile when you had fainted back on the floor of a restaurant while standing straight up.
LMM's Postscript: When they said "bag 'em," I thought for half a second that he must be dead. But then I realized they just meant to give him oxygen. Still....the life insurance would have been nice.
MM's SETUP:
Had not eaten for quite a while, was pretty nervous. The nurse tried to put the needle into the large (but highly wiggly) veins on the back of my hand. She missed, missed, missed again, and then just tried to pursue the vein around, digging the needle into my hand and wrist.
I could feel myself getting dizzy. Then really dizzy. So I said, "I'm getting dizzy." And then a few minutes later I woke up, with several doctors standing around me. And with an oxygen tube in my nose. Apparently I had taken a short vacation away from consciousness.
LMM's ACCOUNT:
Nurse, Mary, commented we didn't have a "chair" (which was actually a bed) in our holding pen (my description of waiting area). She said she'd start the IV with you sitting up in a real chair. She asked if I was ok watching her put in the IV. I said no and turned around. You said you were fine. Mary started slapping your hand to get a vein in your lower left wrist. Think she said darn or something like that, said the vein had rolled, that is sometimes does. Said she was sorry, asked if you were ok. At first you said yes. She kept saying she had it in there but it rolled. By this time another nurse had brought in the "chair." Mary nurse started to try to get the vein again.
You said you were starting to feel dizzy and perhaps she should try while you were laying down. Even as you said you were dizzy, I could see your eyes rolling back in your head. The nurse had turned her away from you. Your head went back and I yelled, "he's fainting." She turned around and yelled for a doctor. Dr. Ramos, the anthesiologist, came in and muttered something in doctor language to Mary about what was happening to you.
He walked up to you and slapped both side of your face, yelling Mr. Munger, wake up or are you in there, something like that. He then yelled for another doctor, Dave. With your head back and your face absolutely placid, you then started snorted as if you couldn't breath. Dave hadn't come yet and I yelled for him to come.
Dr. Ramos said to bag you and he and Mary gave you oxygen. Then you started to come to and didn't remember a thing, vaguely remembering you had said you felt a little dizzy. Mary then put you in the bed and had another nurse, Melissa, come in to put in the IV. Mary said she learned her lesson not to start an IV in a chair again. When you passed out you looked just like you did in Chile when you had fainted back on the floor of a restaurant while standing straight up.
LMM's Postscript: When they said "bag 'em," I thought for half a second that he must be dead. But then I realized they just meant to give him oxygen. Still....the life insurance would have been nice.
2 comments:
ain't no money like life insurance money!
Angus he embellished on that part of the story, I did not say that! (though he does have about total $1M!)
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