OT: Bills tackle runs naked into field, yells for cops to shoot him

patfanken said:

I had something similar. Earlier this month I had heart surgery (angioplasty) and had a couple of stents put in. It's really fascinating in what they do. They run a wire from your femeral arteory into your heart check out the major arteories and then if necessary put in stents. You are awake during it, however you are under sedation.

They keep you in the hospital over night mostly because they need to make sure the incision in your femeral arteory has healed enough, and to get rid of the sedative. And it is the sedative that caused me to post.

For the full night and next day I was in the hospital I was even more of a babbling idiot than I am here. I listened to what I was saying out loud, yet knew I was making no sense. At first I thought I was having a stroke. It was the same the next day after I got home. It wasn't until almost 3 days after the procedure before I could string together 2 cogent sentences in a row.

It was very disconcerting to feel that out of control because of the drugs. I was especially disappointing since I didn't even get to be high. . Now I've had a few of these procedures over the years, but this was the first one where this happened. So whatever they used, I don't want it again. It only goes to show you just how some drugs can really destroy your cognitive processes, and you can be aware of it and yet totally helpless to do anything about it until it wears off.

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Gwedd said:

PFK,

I had 2 stents put in back in 2005. What was way cool to me was that they had this big honkin' flat screen up above and to the left of me that the doc was using to guide the camera/wire and to place the stents. I could turn my head and watch everything.

They had me on some wikkid pissah drugs so that although like you I was awake, I really wasn't there, though I could watch and hear everything. Kinda hard to explain, but it was fun. BUT....... the REALLY nice part was that the Doc asked if there was any music I wanted to listen to. I said yeah, and motioned to my CD case I had with me. I told them to pull "Dark Side of the Moon" and put it on. He loved Pink Floyd too, so that was that!

Got to watch him do his thing, see my heart beating while he placed the stents, listen to DSotM, and have a great buzz, all while lying naked on warm towels and tended to by hawt nurses.

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Gwedd said:

PFK,

I had 2 stents put in back in 2005. What was way cool to me was that they had this big honkin' flat screen up above and to the left of me that the doc was using to guide the camera/wire and to place the stents. I could turn my head and watch everything.

They had me on some wikkid pissah drugs so that although like you I was awake, I really wasn't there, though I could watch and hear everything. Kinda hard to explain, but it was fun. BUT....... the REALLY nice part was that the Doc asked if there was any music I wanted to listen to. I said yeah, and motioned to my CD case I had with me. I told them to pull "Dark Side of the Moon" and put it on. He loved Pink Floyd too, so that was that!

Got to watch him do his thing, see my heart beating while he placed the stents, listen to DSotM, and have a great buzz, all while lying naked on warm towels and tended to by hawt nurses.

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Joker said:

Yeah...well, I've had a number of different procedures over the years but I'll tell you this...I always want to see what the ol' doc is doing when I get a colonoscopy....I don't want any second hand post op "reports" about what they SAY they stuck in my azz....know what I mean, Vern?

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Joker said:

Yeah...well, I've had a number of different procedures over the years but I'll tell you this...I always want to see what the ol' doc is doing when I get a colonoscopy....I don't want any second hand post op "reports" about what they SAY they stuck in my azz....know what I mean, Vern?

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The Gr8est said:

Honestly, that sounds more like something I would expect from a Rats fan than a Bills offensive lineman.

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Simpelton said:

Couple this with the report from about half a month ago about how many painkillers some linemen are on just to keep playing the game, and the fact that some of them are mixing painkillers in ways not recommended by medical science even before we get to the question of recreational legal and illegal drugs -- and a lot of the humor goes out of this thread.

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fnordcircle said:

You know everyone's going to jump on illegal droogs as the reason but I'm more curious about the surgery note.

As someone who ****ing lost their goddamn mind for a week on a certain muscle relaxer prescribed to my doctor I'd be curious to see if that might be involved.

I was dating a new girl, just cast in a show had a good job and I was calmly talking to her about how much I wanted to kill myself. I had a moment of lucidity and I was like 'wait...this makes no sense, I don't want to kill myself.' I work in IT so troubleshooting is my thing and I worked out the variables and realized that I had started taking that muscle relaxer a week or so before. Cut them out and all the suicide fantasies went away.

It actually really shook me up in terms of realizing just how susceptible we are to chemical changes in our body no matter how much we want to view ourselves as something more than meat.

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