I know about something called 'anesthesia awareness', where people wake up earlier...it happens during abdominal surgery usually, where a muscle paralytic is used along with the 'knock-out' stuff. This is VERY rare - though a Baptist minister who went thru it killed himself later. It means you are conscious and feel the pain - but you can't move, including moving your jaws to speak.


I asked about it before my hyst last year. These days, they have many ways of monitoring if a person is 'waking up' - heart rate, EEG patterns, etc - that they would know to conk them out again.

My mom had a hyst back in 1971 - she swears she was conscious for the last bit - and could not cry out! She told my dad, and her doctor thought it was her imagination.

I had to smile at your story - "hey, she's laughing! Knock her out!"

Yeah, those Thai red peppers can really keep you MORE than regular!