I’ve been the recipient too - in my case, the preop rooms and post-anesthesia recovery are the same (usually those are separate units) and was in the same room for both. Don’t remember rolling to the OR at all, just hanging out in preop getting my IVs and such in, then the preop nurse leaves for something, then the surgeon walks in explaining that my surgery’s all done! Hooray! …but like… what.?! how can it be done? we never left the room… my throat hurts… and I have incision wounds and stichtes now… dafuq…?
Yeah it’s a trip and a half from the patient perspective!
Oh no. I had my wisdom teeth out and I can only describe it as maybe feeling like I had teleported it was so disorienting.
Just freaks me out.
I’ve been the recipient too - in my case, the preop rooms and post-anesthesia recovery are the same (usually those are separate units) and was in the same room for both. Don’t remember rolling to the OR at all, just hanging out in preop getting my IVs and such in, then the preop nurse leaves for something, then the surgeon walks in explaining that my surgery’s all done! Hooray! …but like… what.?! how can it be done? we never left the room… my throat hurts… and I have incision wounds and stichtes now… dafuq…?
Yeah it’s a trip and a half from the patient perspective!