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My Hour of Memoryless Lucidity
- phire 2y agoThis is what my grandfather was like for several days after he had a stroke. No short term memory, but he was very lucid and sharp. When the nurses asked their standard questions ("do you know where you are", "do you know why you are here") he would use logic to guess the correct answer. The fact that I was in the room (and I live 8 hours drive away) lead him down a logic chain that whatever happened must be very serious and he must have been transferred the larger hospitable that was a few hours closer to where I live. He would reliably repeat the same conversations based on whoever was in the room with him, and use the same jokes.
- m463 2y ago> and use the same jokes. Pete and Repeat were sitting on a fence. Pete fell off, who was left?
- noduerme 2y agoThis is basically everyone I know when they're drunk. Being an experienced alcoholic is comforting in this sense: If you get hit in the head or you're coming off general anasthesia, if your memory cuts out and you're operating entirely in the present, with no ability to record anything, it won't feel particularly startling and you'll probably just pull out some of the greatest hits. Several vodkas will show you that our ability to analyze our own behavior is remarkably fragile. People I know who have PTSD and other forms of dissociation do this regularly without any drugs at all. Consciousness is all a gradient.
- tasty_freeze 2y agoThe last time I had a colonoscopy, I asked the attendant if it would be OK for my wife to video record my post-surgical conversation with her so that I could later have the odd experience of seeing myself having a recent conversation I had no memory of. I explained I don't have any social media account, we'd record only me, and it was just for my own personal use. They didn't hesitate to say no.
- yjftsjthsd-h 2y ago> They didn't hesitate to say no. Did they give a reason?
- deadbabe 2y agoHIPPA
- tasty_freeze 2y agoNo, but I didn't ask. I assumed that it was that there was no upside to them, which only leaves unspecified downsides, even if unlikely.
- nextaccountic 2y agoThis completely sucks. Was it about liability?
- EvanAnderson 2y agoNot the OP, but with my wife's ultrasounds during her pregnancy 11 years ago multiple technicians cited liability as the reason I was not permitted to record.
- AshamedCaptain 2y agoLiability of whom exactly? I'm really curious.
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- Noumenon72 2y agoI wasted a few minutes trying to think of an anagram for W,A,M,O,R,T,Y (uses every letter exactly once) instead of a pangram (uses every letter at least once).
- skykooler 2y agoTram, yow!
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- bondarchuk 2y agoMary Two
- lazyweb 2y agoMort Way
- ggm 2y agoI believe it's mistake to read too much into what happens in the immediate aftermath of anaesthesia. It's a different you. Of course those reddit videos of undying love are sweet. But, people are often very very very inappropriate. It doesn't mean much, it doesn't mean they are unbridled sexist pigs, or heading there. Post-operative recovery Nurses have good stories. That said, older people come out of Anaesthesia a bit differently. I am told by anaesthesiologists, that older people don't always come back the same even 6 months later. If you're old you need to be prepared for this, and it can acellerate decline in cognitive function (so I am told. I am not a health professional)
- helsinkiandrew 2y ago> That said, older people come out of Anaesthesia a bit differently Wow, I hadn’t heard this before, a little scary: “Among patients aged 65 years and older, up to 65% experience delirium and 10% develop long-term cognitive decline after noncardiac surgery. “ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8807795 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8807795
- ggm 2y agoI have had limited experience of this, helping seniors with computing problems as a volunteer. One of my mentees had double-hip replacement. He definitely wasn't as sharp afterward. In his eighties. My own cognitive state under anaesthetic, I am told was lucid but entertaining. I was interviewed by a doctor about some research project in wisdom teeth, post operative. It's 30 minutes of my life I have no recollection of, or even awareness. Another time after a colonoscopy I was told I was on a 30 second delay loop, replying well after the normal interval to any question. Slow.
- nicolas_t 2y agoWhy have general anesthesia for a colonoscopy? It seems that's an unnecessary risk for a procedure that can easily be done without.
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- pard68 2y agoNeat, I never knew this math trick before! Kind of seems obvious now... 2769=27710-27 And it works for "N1" too, 2771=27710+27 I'm not good enough at mental math to do 277 or 2707 so I don't think this will be too useful to me, but a good trick to know still!
- vidarh 2y agoYou can decompose it further. 27 times 7 is 20 times 7 plus 7 times 7. You can also multiply by 100 and 30 and subtract the latter, and then another 27. In general the method is just about finding which calculations are easy enough to you to decompose the operations into.
- jmholla 2y agoFor those confused, pard68 actually meant to write 27*69=27*7*10-27 which is rounding up one of the numbers and subtracting the multiplicative difference.
- mkl 2y agoYou need to escape those *s with \ or put spaces around them. This kind of method works much more generally. E.g. 58×33 will be close to 60×30 = 1800, so 58×30 = 1800 - 2×30 = 1740, so 58×33 = 1740+3×58 = 1740+3×60-3×2 = 1740+180-6 = 1940-20-6 = 1914. Similarly 27×7 = 30×7-3×7 = 210-21 = 189, 270×7 = 10×27×7 = 10×189 = 1890, etc.
- baq 2y agoAnother interesting one - 8% of 25 = 25% of 8
- DougN7 2y agoIsn’t that just 8/100 x 25 = 25/100 x 8 = (8 x 25)/100
- isoprophlex 2y agoIs this specific procedure particularly unpleasant? I had all my wisdom teeth taken out with only some local anesthesia. I didn't care for people hovering their instruments real close to my face, but the pain wasn't that bad.
- sillysaurusx 2y agoAre you for real? What was that like? Holy moly, my skin is crawling just thinking about that. I have two bottom wisdom teeth, and am terrified of the day that I’ll have to get them removed. I plan to be fully knocked out; it’s hard to imagine someone literally cutting out my teeth. Even if you couldn’t feel any pain, how did you stay calm? Maybe I’m just a wuss when it comes to teeth… To answer your question though, at my recent colonoscopy, this type of procedure was awesome. They roll you into a room, and then you see white liquid go into your IV, and they say "you’ll be out in a few seconds." I remember asking "really?" in surprise, and she nodded yeah. Then my next memory was waking up to my wife. She said I was snoring and sleeping well post-op. I didn’t have any memory loss, but reading this post I wish I’d had that experience. It sounds interesting.
- eru 2y agoI had three wisdom teeth taken out over the years also with only local anesthesia. That was in Singapore and Australia. They didn't even bring up the option of using more drastic steps to put me under. It was all fine. I remember the most painful part was when the needle went in for the anesthesia. Afterwards, the rest was a bit weird, but not painful. Global anesthesia has the potential for more side-effects and things to go wrong that more localised options. So it's generally preferred, when possible.
- isoprophlex 2y agoWell I don't want to make it sound too easy; indeed the whole waving metal things in your face wasn't pleasant. I think in my agony I gripped the chair pretty hard, and I grunted to ask them to give me a little break once. (That's also me because I can't stand people getting too close to me). Anyway, reading into it, there might be some culturally set expectations going on? I never knew but apparently there's a lot less sedation-by-default in Europe. Childbirth, and dental procedures, seem to be more of a "yeah it hurts but you'll get over it" thing.
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- zuminator 2y agoThe memory loss aspect reminded me of the Sleeping Beauty toin-coss problem[0]. Might've been a good opportunity to try out a real variation of it. [0] https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/why-the-sleeping-beauty-problem-is-keeping-mathematicians-awake/ https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/why-the-sleeping-...
- KingMob 2y agoInterestingly, there's already some research about how bad people are at generating random numbers, so if the author tests that at the follow-up, I'd expect him to be both repetitive and predictable. I haven't looked at the paper in a couple decades, but iirc, if asked to pick a random number between 1 and 20, almost a third of the answers will be either 7 or 17.
- 2OEH8eoCRo0 2y agoAnesthesia is spooky. Whenever I go under I try very hard to stay conscious and internalize how I feel and then I wake up when, to me, I was already awake. It's like time warp. I imagine that's what death is except without waking and that's even spookier.
- vundercind 2y agoA quick little zip to the end of the universe. Exactly as fast as the beginning to your earliest memories were.