Ermintruder
The greatest risk is to risk nothing at all...
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This is a topic that as far as I can tell has not been discussed previously on FTMB (according to my search/checks). If I'm wrong, please move/append this thread accordingly.
Ok....
I heard about this in a UK radio news item about 18 months ago, and at the time I was utterly-shocked by what I heard: that the application of general anaesthetics has been shown to produce irreversable damage to mental processes in the very young and the fairly old.
I was so shocked by this, that perhaps I blanked it out from my memory, since it seemed to be such a cruel and inescapable aspect to what is an essential aspect of medical surgery.
Recently (late summer last year) the whole story began to resurface into my consciousness- a distant elderly relation was about to undergo some surgery. Whilst being unaware of having seen any further media mention of this anaesthetic downside myself since (say) summer 2014 (but believing to be in possession of a valid, revised, appreciation of a hitherto-unknown facet of risk) I sensitively raised the topic with the more immediate family members of the impending patient.
I was immediately rejected as being a paranoid fantasist (or worse) and accused of raising utterly unheard of fictional concerns.
Backing off rapidly, I cautiously spoke with a few work colleagues who expressed similar (though more objective) levels of utter disbelief in my conversational concerns, showing no awareness whatsoever of this having been ever mentioned in the press/media....at all.
I began to almost doubt myself, starting to think along the lines of false memory syndrome, even perhaps a touch of parallel universe dislocation (cf http://mandelaeffect.com)
So it was very nearly with some relief that I stumbled across this depressing article tonight:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-2748255/General-anaesthetics-harm-young-children.html
The frightening recollection I had of the original concerns, as reported, reproduced pretty much as I remembered it.
So let's cut to the chase- and this is important
- did you genuinely know about this alleged bad effect that may result from general anaesthesia?
- have you always known about it?
- or, did you only find-out about it, right now, by reading this post?
- (alternatively...) did you find-out about it roughly when I did, back late in 2014?
- if so, have I just been oddly/personally oblivious to any media updates/discussions on this matter? Has it been getting discussed online/ in the press? Or has there been a virtual silence about it?
I've absolutely no wish to scare people, ever, about anything.
Sorry, I should've added the prefix 'unnecessarily' in the preceding sentence.
Your comments/thoughts on this?
Please.
Ok....
I heard about this in a UK radio news item about 18 months ago, and at the time I was utterly-shocked by what I heard: that the application of general anaesthetics has been shown to produce irreversable damage to mental processes in the very young and the fairly old.
I was so shocked by this, that perhaps I blanked it out from my memory, since it seemed to be such a cruel and inescapable aspect to what is an essential aspect of medical surgery.
Recently (late summer last year) the whole story began to resurface into my consciousness- a distant elderly relation was about to undergo some surgery. Whilst being unaware of having seen any further media mention of this anaesthetic downside myself since (say) summer 2014 (but believing to be in possession of a valid, revised, appreciation of a hitherto-unknown facet of risk) I sensitively raised the topic with the more immediate family members of the impending patient.
I was immediately rejected as being a paranoid fantasist (or worse) and accused of raising utterly unheard of fictional concerns.
Backing off rapidly, I cautiously spoke with a few work colleagues who expressed similar (though more objective) levels of utter disbelief in my conversational concerns, showing no awareness whatsoever of this having been ever mentioned in the press/media....at all.
I began to almost doubt myself, starting to think along the lines of false memory syndrome, even perhaps a touch of parallel universe dislocation (cf http://mandelaeffect.com)
So it was very nearly with some relief that I stumbled across this depressing article tonight:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-2748255/General-anaesthetics-harm-young-children.html
The frightening recollection I had of the original concerns, as reported, reproduced pretty much as I remembered it.
So let's cut to the chase- and this is important
- did you genuinely know about this alleged bad effect that may result from general anaesthesia?
- have you always known about it?
- or, did you only find-out about it, right now, by reading this post?
- (alternatively...) did you find-out about it roughly when I did, back late in 2014?
- if so, have I just been oddly/personally oblivious to any media updates/discussions on this matter? Has it been getting discussed online/ in the press? Or has there been a virtual silence about it?
I've absolutely no wish to scare people, ever, about anything.
Sorry, I should've added the prefix 'unnecessarily' in the preceding sentence.
Your comments/thoughts on this?
Please.