Man-o-man. I’m still dizzy and out of it from that, but that is understandable after having your brain put asleep one half at a time. Only thing keeping me up right now is caffeine.

Had to get to the hospital by 8:30, but the Wada didn’t start till 10. One of the things they had to do before I got got wheeled away was to put the probes on my head for a constant EEG. This is done during the Wada is being done to make sure the side of my brain that was needed to be put asleep, was. I laid on the table fully awake for two hours while they shut off half my brain at a time and asked me questions after each one is shut off. They asked me these questions before I went into the operating room to compare the answers too, but I think I flunked the ones before the Wada started.

I was wheeled into the operating room where everyone had their masks on. Before then, I hadn’t really thought of this as being a full fledged procedure needing to be done in an operating room. Never the less, there were plenty of people in this room. Have to remember this is KU Med, a teaching hospital. As far as getting myself “shaved” and ready for the Wada, I had to settle for the cutest nurse in the room…

Then the guy came to insert the “plug” into the vein in my groin. The guy didn’t even warn me as to what the hell he was doing, when he was starting or as to how freakishly much/weird it was going to hurt. I just held it in like a man. Fine. Got it. ouch.

I know the first thing they did was inject the dye to show off the veins in my brain. This way the x-ray machine that was floating around my head, and looked as if it was going to crush my head, could easily see my brain from all angles. Then this guy that had just put the plug into me was… doing something. He was either squeezing something into the plug-thing or injecting something. Felt like squeezing, but I’m just laying on still on my back with my head in a brace, so I can’t see anything down there. When it was injected or squeezed in, the entire right side of my body (from head to toe) got really hot for just a couple seconds. This is the injection of the “barbiturate sodium amytal” (amobarbital) to half the brain. Now, this half of the brain isn’t asleep right then. The Psych guy asked me to put my arms in the air and count down from 20. I only got to the lower teens before I lost my way of talking.

Anyway… You catch my drift. I’m starting to forget exactly what happens next and what order… Kinda hard to remember everything perfectly when your brain is asleep.

I was asked the same type of questions just like I was before this whole thing started while one side then the other was asleep. That’s it.