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The last time I had major surgery, I talked a lot to my insiders, and then talked to the surgeon AND the anesthesiologist about my DID. I informed them that they needed to alert the whole team in the OR about what might happen, what was bound to happen, and what could go wrong if they didn't tell me everything that they were doing beforehand. Well, my surgeon did his job superbly...the nurses and other helpers were telling me everything they were doing. The anesthesiologist did his part too...like taking the time to take the mask off my face before putting me to sleep (it makes me feel like I am being suffocated and triggers me something fierce) when the resident had it on there tight...didn't offer any reason why to the resident at the time, but the anesthesiologist saw my tears and I assume that he told them after I was asleep. I have a very difficult time waking up...it is like 20 people all waking up at different times with different reactions...some get sick, some have headaches, some just cry. ALL the staff were alerted to this before the surgery, as well as after, so they knew how to handle the things that did come up. Since that time, I have told all my drs about my DID, and they handle it well. The drs tell their staff to take extra time with me so that I am not triggered and go off on a tirade. So I hope that you can find something useful here. Sorry. Didn't mean to go off and chase that rabbit track.
Yahna, the main Jewel
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