donaldtoo
Well-Known Member
Did you mean pneumonia? Phenomena is not a disease.
Unlike alcohol, I have a high tolerance for drugs. Probably because I've had to take so many and had to take a lot from a young age. My asthma was not originally classic asthma, but was cough variant asthma which presents as a dry cough with no wheezing. My allergist said it was good that my pediatrician even caught it because most of them miss it. Along with asthma drugs, my allergist treated me with cough medicine, including with codeine, so that I would be able to sleep. On top of that, I had bronchitis twice in fourth grade and pneumonia once. Then I had bronchitic again in fifth grade. So I spent a lot of time on cough medicine. Now, my strongest migraine medication has codeine in it. I just end up sleeping twelve straight hours after taking it, which if a migraine gets bad enough that I need to take the stuff, then I probably need to sleep that much. Some asthma medications make me jittery now, but nothing affects me a whole lot.
I seem to have a high tolerance for both, actually.
Always had to have about 3 shots of Novocain at the dentist, when ours still used that.
Had a procedure a few years ago were I was told I probably wouldn't remember a thing, but, I might have some vague, "blurry" memory of it. When I didn't go out, the Doc gave the nurse a look. Her reply... "He got the whole dose." Then, he looked at me and said... "Well, since you're wide awake, I might as well walk ya' through what I'm doin' here." Interesting stuff on the monitor.
So, I always worried that if I ever had to be put out for an operation, I might be one a' those folks that woke up in the middle of the procedure.
Then, in June of '13, I had to be put out for an operation for the first time in my life. I mentioned my concerns to the anesthesiologist and he said... "Don't worry. You'll be out."
Next thing I know, I was wakin' up in recovery. No pain, no nausea, felt great. Until all the other stuff wore off, anyway.
