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Article: Waking Up During Surgery: New Book Tells Harrowing Account of Surviving Anesthetic Awareness
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- U.S. Newswire
- Article date:
- March 21, 2003
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PARK RIDGE, Ill., March 21 /U.S. Newswire/ -- In 1990, Jeanette
Liska lived through every surgical patient's nightmare: As she lay
paralyzed from the anesthetics she'd received, Liska found herself
awake on the operating table with no way to communicate her
horrifying situation to the doctors and nurses performing surgery on
her.
What was worse, the pain medications she had received from her
anesthesiologist were no longer working.
"Drowning in an ocean of searing agony, I sensed the skein of my
entire life unraveling, thread by thread. But I was the only one who
heard my own tortured screams-silent screams that reverberated again
and again off the cold walls of my skull..." writes Liska ...