re: #661 albusteve

they always start out with Valium for two reasons…it helps with any anxiety and it relaxes you to make intubation easier…messing up your throat with that thing will take days to heal…very sensative tissue down there

I don’t think I was intubated; this was a spinal, for arthroscopic knee surgery. But you could well be right that there was a mix of drugs applied.

Great stuff, whatever it was. As noted above, out the door on my own two feet in under two hours after surgery.