DS> anymore.  The anesthesia they use now stays with you 
 DS> longer, makes you forget and messes up the brain for 
 DS> awhile..nasty feeling..can't remember much and brain 
Odd. I went in for surgury in 1992, and found that I was relatively alert 
after the process was done.
I was thinking of a local (which would have been a spinal) just for that 
purpose, but the anasthetic was on the whole much less potent than I'd 
remembered from my early youth.
Going to the bathroom five hours after the procedure was a bit tough - but a 
day later, I was spiffy.
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