Operation + booze = result!
Few years back I won a night out in one of those fire engine limo thingies. Me and the girlies had a top night out. Much alcohol was quaffed and I finally crawled into bed - after a few chunders on the way home - at about 3am.

Normally, this wouldn't have been a problem but i had to be in hopsital at 7am for an op requiring general anaesthetic. When I turned up, the nurses and my surgeon laughed when i told them i was mightily hungover and, in all probability, still pissed.

They did the op anyway.

I was first on the list that day so was back on the ward by 10am. However, the combination of the previous night's shenanigans and the anaesthetic meant I didn't come round till 4pm (and that was only because I was being "helped" out of oblivion by some kindly slapping from the nurses)

As i came round i realised the rest of the day's patients had gone home and there was a different set of nurses stood round my bed looking very worried that something was seriously wrong with me. (The early shift had clocked off and not mentioned I was sleeping off more than the anesthetic.)
That was when i saw a doctor coming towards me with a large needle of something.

I sat up, shouted "leave me - i'm pissed", threw up and went back to sleep.

They woke me up quite forcefully and sent me home.

To those nurses at QMC in Nottingham - i'm sorry for any worry and the vomit.
To the early shift nurses - you might have bloody told them!
( Sausagegirl, Sun 14 Mar 2010, 12:51, 5 replies)

sorry to sound rude
but drinking the night before an operation wasn't exactly the most sensible thing to do
( Smash Monkey lowering the tone of the whole internet, Sun 14 Mar 2010, 18:50, closed)

I'm astonished
they did the op at all. It's up to the anaesthetist to give a green light, and they're the ones with their career on the line if the patient goes tits-up.
( Fronds are waving gently on, Sun 14 Mar 2010, 21:07, closed)

exactly
i sincerely hope i'm never attended by that anaesthetist
( Smash Monkey lowering the tone of the whole internet, Mon 15 Mar 2010, 10:55, closed)

I have never understood...
... people who consider a "top night out" to be one where they drink so much that it makes them vomit.

I have been through the experience a couple of times: drank too much alcohol for my body to cope with, so it's rejected it by puking. I found it to be a deeply unpleasant experience - very different from the pleasant "tipsy" feeling that one gets from having drunk a lesser amount.

So... do some people actually enjoy the feeling of being sick? Why is that a great night out? It's not: it's a drunken misjudgement to regret.
(EuroSong I love horse meat: best of all the animals, Mon 15 Mar 2010, 0:31, closed)

As far as I'm aware
a 'top night out' is unrelated to the amount of alcohol you have. Sometimes it can help things along, but I've never found that drinking lots guarantees a good night out by itself.
(syllopsium, Mon 15 Mar 2010, 15:37, closed)