• The thing I remember most about heart surgery was just how interesting
    it was being able to feel something going on in there

    Wait...what??

  • What?
    It was keyhole, no general anaesthetic. Not sure keyhole is right - they went in via big blood vessel in the groin, so that's the only external wound. But you can feel this weird sensation when the stuff is happening (burning things that are misbehaving), something you can't normally feel. Those old bus posters that said if you feel like there's a tight belt around your chest you're probably having a heart attack, they made a lot of sense.

  • Googles keyhole heart surgery... Whoa, modern medicine is mental. Awesome, but mental!

    Must have been an interesting experience indeed.

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