<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://tech.lgbt/@CatoTheYoungest" class="u-url mention">@<span>CatoTheYoungest</span></a></span> also probably don&#39;t let anybody give you IV drugs after you wake up without them first telling you what it is and why</p><p>(we had to stop the nurse _every goddamn time_)</p>

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://tech.lgbt/@CatoTheYoungest" class="u-url mention">@<span>CatoTheYoungest</span></a></span> I would definitely advise talking to people who&#39;ve had surgery in the same medical system (in the sense of: same country or region at least), and to more than one too, just to have a good idea of what to expect</p><p>GA itself is quite safe, but the medical personnel attending to you may not be</p>

My hatred for the french is constantly fueled by ugliest caricature comics or images known to man that they keep producing

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://tech.lgbt/@CatoTheYoungest" class="u-url mention">@<span>CatoTheYoungest</span></a></span> I guess the one specific thing I wish had gone differently is that we&#39;d rather have been awake to watch instead of being put under GA</p><p>then you at least have a chance to tell the surgeon off before she starts cutting things she really shouldn&#39;t</p><p>but I don&#39;t know how feasible that is</p>

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://tech.lgbt/@CatoTheYoungest" class="u-url mention">@<span>CatoTheYoungest</span></a></span> so, this was our first surgery under general anesthesia, and the surgeon (or anybody associated) said _absolutely nothing_ about recovery. this as I later learned (but only later, since nobody I talked to even considered this to be a possibility enough to advise) is very unusual rather than routine</p>

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://tech.lgbt/@CatoTheYoungest" class="u-url mention">@<span>CatoTheYoungest</span></a></span> regretfully, I do not know. I do not know what would have prevented our experience even in retrospect--we looked up reviews even, everything seemed as fine as it was reasonable under the circumstances</p><p>one thing I _can_ actually recommend is listening to them talk about the procedure in detail, writing it down, and asking people who had a similar procedure done if they got a similar response</p><p>I&#39;ll illustrate with something concrete...</p>

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.gamedev.place/@Igigog" class="u-url mention">@<span>Igigog</span></a></span> those are very large pictures, and I used lossy compression for those JXL</p>

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://types.pl/@sliminality" class="u-url mention">@<span>sliminality</span></a></span> logic is constructive or crap</p>

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://tech.lgbt/@CatoTheYoungest" class="u-url mention">@<span>CatoTheYoungest</span></a></span> we have had a surgery (orchiectomy) that i thought we asked every meaningful question about, but the one that turned out to be necessary yet unanswered is &quot;what if our choice of doctor is wrong and they do a malpractice&quot;</p><p>(it was not possible to do anything in the end due to reasons such as war, so we just live with nerve damage now. it got somewhat bearable 6-12 months later)</p>