Well, that was entertaining and a little scary

[Rain]

My 17yo son is 6'1". He is hyper responsible and a real character at the same time.

When he was 4 we had testing done on him through the school system. He was so far down in expressive speech they thought he may have some language and other mental disabilities. So we are doing the testing and he is getting several things wrong I know he knows.  So I observe him closely for a few answers and realize he is teasing the them! The administrate didn't believe me and wouldn't test again after I told him he shouldn't tease here. They reccemonded a number of things.  I said no to everything, but the speech, knowing he needed to concentrate on that. It didn't take long for them to realize his only disabilities were the expressive speech just like I said.

So yesterday we watch a video of the side effects and complications of getting his wisdom teeth out. He is being a real ham, especially when we get to the possibility of death. Then we find out he has to fast for 8 hours ahead of time! His surgery is at 9:30 in the morning so it really isn't that big of deal,  but he is a 17 year old boy! The medical staff walk out of the room and he says something that cracks me up. He allows me to record him saying it again. Paraphrased:

He slides the rolling chair over to the patient recliner. 

"Our patient will have all 4 of his,wisdom teeth out tomorrow. There are many complications including death. Before surgery he will not be able to eat for 8 hours, which is basically death."

Surgery went well and he was out quickly. I knew before hand that he either wouldn't be real affected or it would make his character stand out. It took his character into hyper drive, far more than with my daughter and for longer. He was positive her would act normal.  He even got our action camera out to prove to us he was normal. He mounted it to the dash and then took the camera off the mount to take inside. 

It took forever to get out of the parking lot.  I could not get him to keep his mouth closed and the gauze in. I could not keep him holding still (he really never holds still). I tried to video like he requested and kept having to quit because he would sway again. So he started trying to mount the camera on his own. 

He kept giving me thumbs up with odd sounds and winking at me to show he was teasing, but he really had no idea how much more he was doing . He doesn't remember anything in the car.

We got him home and he was really swaying. He heard the music my daughter had on and started dancing.  We quickly turned the music off when he swayed while dancing. We made it to the family room where the gauze from one side of his mouth fell on the floor because he wouldn't keep his mouth shut. He saw it and started screaming.  He then made his way to the bathroom, shut the door and the other gauze fell out and he started screaming again. 

We had a bad time trying to get him to lay on the couch till the wooziness passed. 

For much of this he had the camera trying to video himself.  He had taken film production in high school the last 3 years. His videos are not as steady as he thought they would be! lol

Now he is settled and hurting a bit. But phew, so glad I had my daughter home to help. 

Edited July 21, 2018 by Rain

[SeekerB]

The recovery room nurses must hear lots of strange comments.  A few years ago I was coming to after surgery.  I looked at my nurse, who was very attractive and said, "Wow, you're awful pretty for a space alien."  She smiled. Probably hadn't heard that one before. 

[Jeanne]

I always tell the docs...don't believe a word I say when I am done here...it is all hooey!!  Glad that your son is out and on the mend...

[Unaffiliated]

After surgery I once thought a nurse was my wife and tried to kiss her. I was 12.

[Calm]

My daughter told us she was "standard" when asked how she was doing while waking up after ELectroconvulsive therapy (thankfully she reacts very well to it except one time, however putting an IV in has now become a bit traumatic for us all because she has started to pass out..gets her on the gurney faster so she doesn't mind).

We (the nurse and I) chuckled...and then she kept saying it for 5 minutes (or so it seemed) and thought she was saying something profound.  Yeah, I'm standard.  Iam standard.  Standard.  Standard...

Yeah, got the message.

She is very disappointed she hasn't used it since.  No real funny stuff lately, just mumbles and looks of disbelief we can't understand her.

[Robert F. Smith]

On 7/20/2018 at 3:31 PM, SeekerB said:

The recovery room nurses must hear lots of strange comments.  A few years ago I was coming to after surgery.  I looked at my nurse, who was very attractive and said, "Wow, you're awful pretty for a space alien."  She smiled. Probably hadn't heard that one before. 

My close friends refuse to tell me what I said in the recovery room, and I have no memory of it.  Some of those anasthetics are really truth serum -- such as sodium pentothol.