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The doctors lied to me.
In the "holding area" they said they were going to prep me for going to sleep with some other drug, then put me to sleep in the operating room. I was excited to see an operating room for the first time in real life but as they rolled my bed down the hallway I saw a bubble in my IV tube and I wanted to ask if that was normal. I struggled to speak but found it impossible, got worried I wouldn't be able to point out the bubble, and then woke up in the waiting area... Mad I never got to see the operating room and glad the bubble didn't kill me.
Edit: then again with the way the US is going, I could be dead and in hell
I had a bubble in an IV tube once, and asked about it (I wasn't being put to sleep)!
Apparently it happens all the time. The thing at the end, just before the needle (sorry, I have no idea what it's called) filters them out.
I think for a regular IV it actually takes a lot of air in the line, but with a central line it's a lot more dangerous.
I'm not an expert and I didn't check my info but I did ~~stay at a hoiday inn express~~ get an IV every month for the past decade, and in years past have discussed these things with seasoned nurses as I watched air bubbles of various sizes enter my vein.
That's some genuine folk wisdom for ya, lol.
I will tell you, I don't have any comforting words about your edit statement.
If we aren't in Hell, Hell doesn't exist.