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Topic: Opinion from my anesthesiolosgist... |
Terry Edwards
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Florida... livin' on spongecake...
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Posted 4 Feb 2005 9:42 am |
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I had an injection in by lower back yesterday on the nerve root at L3/L4 (vertebra,not levers). It was serious enough to require going under. I'm laying on the operating table while the anesthesiologist gives me the first drug that makes me feel calm and makes the floor look like it's moving a little. I notice the music in the bakcground. It's country music, contemporary, but with a steel guitar playing in it. I commented that you guys play good music in here. The anesthesiologist responded that the surgeon likes country music so it was his choice. I told him that I played steel guitar while he was injecting the final drug that would send me away for 30 minutes or so. I think it was at this point that he felt it was safe to say that he didn't miss the steel guitar being left out of country music these days! And he asked why would I choose to learn an instrument like that! Well, I was feeling pretty good at this point and really enjoying the effect of these legal drugs. So being calm (and keeping an eye on the floor still moving), my response was simply that pedal steel guitar wasn't just for country music and that I was learning some pretty cool jazz standards on the steel right now. He said he had never heard any such thing before and I said you won't hear it on the radio ...because ...they....only....play...
Then I woke up and my procedure was over and I didn't remember that conversation until just now.
Terry[This message was edited by Terry Edwards on 04 February 2005 at 09:47 AM.] |
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David L. Donald
From:
Koh Samui Island, Thailand
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Posted 4 Feb 2005 10:45 am
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I guess the time lapse memory loss
prevented you from getting into his face too much..
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Ray Minich
From:
Bradford, Pa. Frozen Tundra
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Posted 4 Feb 2005 1:30 pm
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| Ya gotta talk nice to people holding sharp needles. Whilst they have the sharp thing in their hand their opinion is the only thing that matters. |
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Al Marcus
From:
Cedar Springs,MI USA (deceased)
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Posted 4 Feb 2005 7:02 pm
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Terry-That scene sounds familiar to me. In 1991 I had surgery for my GallBladder and I was the Surgeon's 3rd one with the new Laproscopic method. So he was learning and the surgeon teacher was right next to him and my local surgeon was there too. So I had 3 surgeons there. For a procedure that was supposed to take less than 1 hour, I was under for 4 &1/2 hours.
When they gave me the needle,He Asked me if I liked country music. Thinking my time had come (I was 69 then) , I said sure,"I USED to play Pedal Steel Guitar"...lol...al 
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Bob Strum
From:
Anniston Alabama
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Posted 7 Feb 2005 2:41 pm
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In my office I have the music I like. My patients say, "what station is that"?
"I can't find that station."
Of course I tell them, It's WBOB! So in each dental room you hear steel and steel and old country and big bands. Old records made into CDs and new stuff from you all.
What a neat environment. Shuck'n teeth to "Farewell Party"!!
Do I hear Rob Parker?? |
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Les Green
From:
Jefferson City, MO, R.I.P.
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Posted 7 Feb 2005 3:06 pm
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Shuckin' teeth to Farewell Party...........that is a classic!
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