Getting some surgery tomorrow

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curious2garden

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C. Nesbitt said:
I was given TAC (tetracaine, adrenaline, cocaine) as a topical anesthetic for a laceration above my eye when I was about 12. The doctor explained that it did a great job of constricting the blood vessels to lessen bleeding since facial cuts bleed so profusely. My mom was pretty good about blood, puke, broken bones, etc. when we were kids. She told me later though that she had trouble with that incident because it bled SO much.
I told all my friends that they gave me coke at the hospital. They didn’t believe me at first but my mom backed my story up.
My life was pretty tame though, no breaking into pharmacies for me, just a little light cocaine dabbling at the ER.
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The adrenaline was a much better vasoconstrictor but the cocaine helped. It's very useful stuff :) I dislike eye surgery. I hated when we'd have a GSW and have to call in opthalmology and ent to finish the enucleation and facial repair.
 
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