He failed to mention that local anesthesia can also lead to neurotoxicity, and I was too ignorant to know about it(for some reason I assumed that local anesthet

He failed to mention that local anesthesia can also lead to neurotoxicity, and I was too ignorant to know about it(for some reason I assumed that local anesthetics are harmless, and didn't do my research). You get that "neurotoxicity" in this case is almost exclusively referring to deleterious effects that local anesthetics can have on nerves at the site of injection, right? Subcutaneous injection of local anesthetics will have very little, if any, involvement with your brain. You did the right thing finding a surgeon that would work with a block instead of GA if you were concerned about the (potentially real, if not that bad, effects of GA) but I think your fears of local anesthetics causing CNS damage are overblown and I wouldn't want others to refuse the use of them in themselves or their children based on your post.