Have you ever ‘done’ ‘Penquin Milk’ also known as ‘White Out’, which, like the typo removal stuff is white and takes you ‘out’ fast<\/strong>?<\/p>\n

I’m talking about C<\/span><\/a>_12<\/sub>H<\/span><\/a>_18<\/sub>O<\/span><\/a>.<\/p>\n

It’s better known as Propofol<\/a>, and it’s amazing stuff.<\/p>\n

“… This was the most unpleasant part of the day”, said she after she inserted the needle in my vein.<\/p>\n

I was skeptical.<\/p>\n

I still had a rather vague, yet distinct memory of the last time I got brutally invaded .. and it was far<\/strong> more ‘unpleasant’ than a simple needle being stuck in my arm.<\/p>\n

And the prospect of someone potentially (and, as it turned out, in reality!) snipping and burning stuff from deep inside my body only fuelled my skepticism.<\/p>\n

Soon I was wheeled into an operating room of sorts, nurses covered me with\u00c2\u00a0a warm blanket, the anesthesiologist came running in and asked me to ‘jump’ on my side and did his thing out of my sight.<\/p>\n

“The doctor will be here soon” a nurse told me. Here we go, I thought, another long wait (last time I underwent\u00c2\u00a0this procedure I had been laying like this for 45 minutes, waiting for a doctor who got stuck in traffic). But no, not this time, almost immediately after that a nurse tapped me on the arm. “Doctor is here”, I expected her to say.<\/p>\n

But no, instead, she said “You’re all done and fine. You’re in the recovery room now. Do you want some water?”<\/p>\n

It was pretty amazing! I have had no sense of falling asleep. Maybe getting close to dozing off, and for a split second it was a bit disorientating to realize a full hour had gone by without my having had the sense of falling asleep.<\/p>\n

A full hour. Gone. And unaccounted for.<\/p>\n

But I swear, I don’t want it back. They can keep it. Along with\u00c2\u00a0the three polyps they snipped and burned off.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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