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Am visiting MathMom and DoctorFriend and DF got telling work stories. (He’s an anaesthesiologist.)

We’d started off by talking about the unsettling things anaesthesiologists sometimes say to patients, but he said sometimes patients will unsettle you. “There’s a common phenomenon of the Propophol Declaration,” he said. Propophol is often the first thing they push, which sedates the patient and allows other anaesthesia to be applied. Many people, it hits in such a way that immediately before they go under, they’ll say one last thing. Often these things are funny, sometimes they’re unnerving, frequently they’re nonsense.

His most unsettling story, he said, was a guy who was kind of a “frequent flier”– he’d had to have a series of procedures, so he’d come in and been sedated and then put down under general a number of times, and as his condition had improved he’d gotten chattier. This time, he was talking with them as normal, and then suddenly he paused, looked DF straight in the face, said “Goodbye!” and passed the fuck out.

But the funniest recent one was he’d done a kidney transplant on a 15-year-old kid, and he’d pushed a bunch of Fentanyl into the kid because that’s what fentanyl is really for, and the kid kind of went wide-eyed, said “This is fucking awesome,” and then went under.

“Fentanyl,” I said. “Isn’t that–”

“Fentanly is designed for use in anaesthetic,” DF said. He went on, aggrieved, “It is my job to give people fentanyl. All these other people dealing the stuff– I’m the fentanyl guy.” (Your picture was not posted)

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Propofol is hilarious. I vividly remember feeling my head abruptly go down and hit the pillow. Lights out in under 5 seconds. Then I woke up with a stupid grin on my face, probably only partly because they told me they didn’t find any cancer during my colonoscopy.

Fentanyl is a helluva drug. I had it during/immediately after my open appendectomy and it was like “I can feel that this is the worst pain I’ve ever been in, but I do not care at all.” So yes, great for its intended use. For everything else, better mental health care and harm reduction services for all. I commute in Philly when it’s not a pandemic and I took the class the health dept offers at libraries and carry Narcan. Sigh.