When my second pacer was being installed last spring it was with a local anaesthetic (the heart lead remaining in place). The left side of my face was shielded so I couldn't watch the work in action. As I lay there on the table, one point I felt and heard some scraping sounds. I asked the surgeon what was going on. His reply was "You wouldn't want to know!" It cracked me up. (he was just freeing my old pacer from surrounding tissue, in case you were really interested.) You have to love a doc with a sense of humour.
-- radiebold (Rob)

 

 

My doctor that did my node ablation had a good sense of humor also. I'm laying there on the table no clothes on and wired up, 2 catheters in my groin and the doctor decides we have to wait for 15 - 20 minutes.
He asked me if I had plans to go anywhere right then.
Under the circumstance I thought it was realy funny.
John S

 

My EP almost never cracked a smile or made a joke. I'm a cardiac nurse and know most of the people in the cath lab. When they were getting me scrubbed up my doctor said, "Jill, this would be a great time for you to learn to make pockets. Lenora won't mind." I heard about ten people say, "Dr. Arnold, that's not funny!"

 

lol! too funny. I dont know which phrase I would prefer to hear:
"You wouldn't want to know"
or
"ooops"
:)
~valerie

 

I've Heard oops during surgery! The Dr was just about to take all his tools away & close when I heard a nurse ask "what's the matter, Dr?" To which I heard him reply "I can't get my screwdriver out of her chest" LoL I decided to get in on the act (even tho it was clear by the things I was feeling that it wasn't an act) by yelling out "I am not walking around with a screwdriver sticking out of my chest!!" ROTFLMBO !!