Lawrence Hall
Dispatches for the
Colonial Office
LogoSophia Magazine – A Pilgrim's
Journal of Life, Literature and Love
Some Clinical Notes on Anaesthesia
and, Like, StuffZZZZ
A chair in the waiting room
A chair in a consulting room
A chair in a room where they rearrange your body parts
A blood pressure cuff that chuffs and puffs every few minutes
(And can you say, “sphygmomanometer?”)
(I thought not)
Clamps on your wrists
(Is the prisoner ready, chaplain?)
Steel trays of shiny steel things for cutting and drilling and clamping
A quest for veins. Not that vein. No, this vein. No, where’d it go…
Ouch
Let there be blood
Are you comfortable?
You’re going to start feeling sleepy
Grey floating boxes and conversations among them as they move about in an
unreality which for the non-time-being are the / a reality and they’re nice
enough little boxes but why are they grey and there is no fear and there is no
pain but there is no control only grey floating boxes speaking to each other
Another chair in another room – how…?
And those are your post-procedure instructions…are you ready to go…?
I want a cup of coffee
Nothing hot until tomorrow
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