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Doctors Postpone Guy’s Surgery Because They Needed Time To Stop Laughing After Finding All Of His Body Drawings

The idea of going under the knife for surgery is a nervewracking thought. Thanks to anesthesia you won’t feel anything (let’s hope) but it is an anxiety-filled process sometimes. One of the best ways to fight off jitters? humor – which is exactly what one guy did while waiting for his knee surgery.

One online user shared the tale of his knee surgery as a teenager. For the post-op process, things seemed to start out routine, with the doctor giving him a sharpie to mark the affected area. Well, waiting around to be taken into the operation room can take a while, so he found a hilarious way to keep himself entertained. When the surgeons found what he had done the prank was so hilarious thing fell a bit behind schedule.

A guy shared the story of his knee surgery prank, which delayed his operation for 30 minutes

Doctors Postpone Guy's Surgery Because They Needed Time To Stop Laughing After Finding All Of His Body Drawings

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Doctors Postpone Guy's Surgery Because They Needed Time To Stop Laughing After Finding All Of His Body Drawings

People in the comments thought the story was hilarious and even shared some similar tales

Doctors Postpone Guy's Surgery Because They Needed Time To Stop Laughing After Finding All Of His Body Drawings

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Sofie Tapia is a journalism graduate from the University of Kentucky. She is now a free-spirited content creator who wanders the globe rearranging words for various outlets. She previously worked as a reporter for Lebanon Daily News and worked as an editor at both Al-Masry Al-Youm and Egypt Independent. She can be reached at Sofie@BoredPanda.com

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Herb Eaversmells 5 years ago

There is a patient waiting on the operating table, the doctor says " don't worry Andrew, its a real simple operation, you'll do fine". The patient looks at the doctor and says " my name isn't Andrew", the doctor responds "I was talking to myself"

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Eunice Probert 5 years ago

It's a very strange feeling, waking up after a general anesthetic. You don't have a sense that time has passed, as you do when you wake up after sleeping normally. When I had a knee operation the nurse didn't get me to count backwards. He asked me questions about the north east of England, where I'm originally from. And I was unconscious before I knew it.

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Marek Cieślik 5 years ago

My experience exactly. With regular sleep, you kinda FEEL some time has passed since you fell asleep. With induced anesthesia you lose that frame of reference. I remember feeling extremely weirded out when I went under and then woke up what felt like immediately afterwards; in reality, several hours passed.

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Margaret Wellman 5 years ago

It was so weird for me too. I was out for 5+ hours and it felt like a couple of minutes... general anesthesia made me swell up so bad, I was swollen for four days after my surgery. Had to wear the baggiest clothes I could find. Good bye bras and undies.

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La Petite Morte 5 years ago

Every survey I've undergone since I turned 24 has also dispensed with the counting. I have gone under while discussing tattoos, paganism, the fact I'm an anatomical embalmer and they dissected my cadavers in anatomy lab, paganism, and metal vs. industrial music. The most interesting one was when the anesthesiologist tech recognized me as the head of con ops of a local kink convention and I went under talking about various knot tying techniques to use for a full body suspension (the last one he was the only one standing next to me and the convo was quiet but enthusiastic).

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Yettichild 5 years ago (edited)

I just had a dental implant put in about 3 weeks ago. I was not put under, but was given 'sedation pills' As instructed I took one 45 minutes before the appointment and the other once I got to the clinic. They told me I wouldnt remember anything. Well, I remember it all. It really wasn't bad or anything, but it blew them away when I went in for my post op check up and could recount the conversation they were having as well as the two stupid jokes I made at the end. The implant is basically a screw that they put up into the socket where your tooth was, so of course after they finished puting in the base I had to say 'I can't help but think I'm getting screwed", then when they put in the upper piece they tighten it down with a little ratchet, so of course I had to add 'And now I'm ratchet'.

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