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Sorry but personally if a miniature horse woke me up from anesthesia by banging out nonsense on a miniature keyboard it would send me into a liminal space between life and death from which I would never return

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I play Celtic harp and am intrigued by therapeutic practitioners who play their harps in hospitals and especially hospice. I’ve wondered occasionally if when one is flirting with death whether or not a harp is really the instrument they want to hear. 🤔

I either get a bit lairy post surgery or drop my blood pressure to the point they wang a nasal airway and squeeze fluids. Perhaps I now need to add 'no horses' to my rider, alongside 'yes' to antirmetics and a bowl.

unfortunately god hates me and i don’t ever feel loopy after anesthesia. so although it would be a very pleasant experience, the dreamlike quality would not be there and thats required for the curing process. i’ve never been on general anesthesia tho only twilight so there is still hope

Yeah, no. I've been under anesthesia a number of times, this is not how I would have wanted to wake up. I promise you that if I had woken up from my coma to this, I would have either retreated back into it, or lost my damn mind. I still feel like I lost a bit of it anyways, and that was 22yrs ago.

You know, maybe a few DAYS after surgery and some healing, it would be cool to meet one of these therapy horses in person. Right after surgery? Nuh-huh, my anesthesia addled brain would be screaming to get this sacrifice to Cthulhu shit outta there faster than a patron outta Cheers.

Last time I came out from general anesthesia I started laughing because the first thing that popped into my head was “I see everything twice!” from the novel Catch-22. A nurse looked at me and asked if I was ok and all I could say was “I see everything twice!”

Apparently these folks have forgotten that they are in a hospital surrounded by sick and dying patients who do not enjoy being forced to listen to such a cacophony. Silence is golden in libraries and hospitals. Save for the party for post-discharge.