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T wrote:
> In article . com>,
> says...
>> I had my appendectomy for free... was my tenth birthday present, a week in the
>> hospital, best part of of all was the spinal, like a baseball bat
>> WOPped in my back,
>>
>>

>
> How primitive! I can't imagine a spinal for an appendectomy. Then again,
> I'm of the modern age where chemistry rules supreme.
>



I had my appendix out in 1953 and had ether. I can still remember the
smell. The last thing I can recall was saying "That STINKS!" and
hearing my pediatrician, who assisted in the surgery, say "Smells,
darling, smells...."

gloria p