4.7 • 643 Ratings
🗓️ 24 January 2023
⏱️ 16 minutes
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0:00.0 | What would be a funny thing to say to a surgeon before anesthesia kicks in five seconds later? |
0:06.2 | I had broken my wrist and was being put under to have four pins inserted. |
0:10.1 | They gave me anesthesia through an IV, and I felt coldness spreading up my arm and across my chest. |
0:15.6 | The nurse asked how I was doing, and I said, this must be what dying feels like. |
0:19.8 | I heard her say, oh my God, and then I was out. |
0:23.2 | So, did you die? Yes. Dude, I broke my wrist too. Four pins and a plate, same exact |
0:29.4 | sensation, comment, and a shocked face response from the anesthesiist. Are you me? You or me reincarnated. |
0:36.0 | Can't believe you're dead. Yeah, the worst part is how much |
0:38.6 | the Wi-Fi in this casket sucks. I'm sure the Wi-Fi will be the least of his worries once his |
0:43.4 | battery dies. Wow, I actually have a relevant story that happened recently. As I was getting ready |
0:49.5 | to go under, they were placing a device in my mouth to keep me from biting down on the scope |
0:53.3 | they were going to use for the endoscopy. |
0:55.4 | Think medical ball gag, but a hard plastic ring instead of a ball. |
0:59.4 | As the gal was placing it in, I asked, wait, what's the safe word? |
1:03.3 | I heard a good amount of laughing as the world turned black. |
1:06.2 | I'm awake would probably be a good safe word. |
1:09.1 | Related comment, but doesn't really answer the question. |
1:12.1 | My dad was in the middle of a surgery repairing some pretty nasty damage on his wrist after a |
1:16.7 | skiing accident. He was under heavy anesthesia, but the surgeons were having serious trouble with |
1:21.3 | the screws in his wrist, which apparently jarred him around enough to wake him up. He noticed |
1:25.6 | their struggles and managed to say, righty-tidy, lefty-lusey, then he passed back out. This is the most dad thing I've ever heard. |
1:33.6 | How do you keep a surgeon in suspense? This is the best one yet. Shame it's buried so deep in the |
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