How did people get surgeries done before anesthesia was invented? How were they able to stay still and not move around during the procedures?
There’s no way people could just grit their teeth and feel being cut, could they? The pain alone had to make people act out.
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Had carpal tunnel surgery few years back. Calcification of the tendon was pretty bad so surgeon had to work a bit longer crunching it off. When he started to stitch me back up starting at the bottom of my palm the needle poke HURT. I said OW! he stopped and looked at me kinda aghast and said, you felt that?
Yessir! I told him. He thought for a second then said, well, I can give ya another 10 or so shots around the area to numb you up or you can just, uh, power thru another 12 sticks and we’ll be done. Well fuck. Ok just do it doc. That SUCKED. My arm was very tightly wrapped to a part of the operating table otherwise I wouldn’t have been able to not jerk away. I can’t imagine like getting your appendix out w no drugs. I wonder if a few ppl didnt just pass out from the pain.
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