open your eyes wide

I had to go under the knife a few days ago. The intervention wasn’t high-risk, but diving into that mysterious well of total anesthesia was impressive. Moreover, I couldn’t help but read some statements last week by Más Madrid’s leader, anesthesiologist Mónica García, in which she said there was more fear and far more stress than in the operating room. politics. Heaven and me with this hair! That’s why I decided to have my hair done because I had to cut my beard for surgical hygiene. At the very least, it’s a touch of elegance to deal with hospital pajamas and everything after.

Made up in this way, they put me in a preparation room where the patients who were going to be operated on and the others who survived the intervention overlapped. Minutes passed, and it was pretty boring, despite the teasing. Until a lady decides to get up on her own and collapses to the ground. They had him anesthetized from the waist down, but she said she was always in a hurry. She reminded me of my mother. Within minutes, another lady sat down, who said her name was Annie. To distract myself, it occurred to me to bring up the subject by speaking to him in French. But the lady didn’t do much when a few minutes later the young anesthetist told her that she was so scared, that she had barely come out of the previous surgery because there was no way around. wake him up after he has an allergic reaction to anesthesia. The young doctor tried to comfort him by reassuring him that he would administer another narcotic. He gave a very clear explanation. Even I got it. I was so nervous that I held the doctor’s hand and asked him to please bring it back, which gave me a very calming distancing effect.

They were there when they took me to the operating room floor. Now they do this on some big chairs so you avoid that distracting visual tour of hospital rooftops. Then I remembered a quote from Miguel Strogoff: “Open your eyes wide, look.” I last read it in Georges Perec’s Life Instructions for Use, not in Jules Verne’s novel.

The operating room floor was very modern, with a wide central corridor and a dozen lighted operating theaters on either side. They looked like horse stables. Maybe that’s why they call them boxes. In the hallway, on some huge shelves, were all kinds of strange gadgets. The route looked like a follow-up shot from Blade Runner. Then I saw that not only me but Annie had woken up in the recovery room. Life still needed operating instructions.

Source: Informacion

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