My speech pathologist here, when he heard I was having this surgery, also mentioned I should be sure they gave me an amnesia drug after. So I definitely don't think I want to drive myself--I'll have both my parents and my husband around to drive me.

Here's the thing that bothers me about that: WHY do they want to make you forget!!?? I know this is one of those "conscious sedation" operations. I've had two other procedures where that was supposedly the case--a colonoscopy and my PEG insertion and I remember the colonoscopy vividly--its was way too much consciousness and not nearly enough sedation and the PEG insertion I also recall gagging as they put the thingie down my throat and a LOT of pain when they cut into my stomach. I didn't have an amnesia inducing drug after and so I know those two things are seriously uncomfortable as they are happening. So heading into this surgery, it's not reassuring to me at all that they want to give me a drug that will erase my memory of what happened afterwards. Is it going to be that awful as it's happening? Just because I wont remember it afterwards won't change that, right?

Sorry. Sometimes I just think about this stuff too much but the "don;t worry you won;t rememebr a thing" line never reassures me. What I want to know is I won't FEEL a thing!