EselleM

While under the influence of the paralytic drug, how did you reconcile the pain of the procedure(s) without literally dying from the pain? Has that aspect of this trauma affected you now (good or bad) and if so how?

For some reason that statement, of knowing they had little hope, is most shocking to me. Knowing they had little hope for your survival, how… I don't know, what was going through your head when you realized death may be imminent?

Kudos to you. I had only minor procedures done on my hand without any anesthesia for the pain; apparently the infection wouldn't allow proper local anesthesia and general wasn't an option, so they did neither. Remembering that horrible pain, I don't know if I would be able to have the same strength as you did, in regards to surviving the procedures you had to go through as well as the emotional after math. Kudos, mad props, neither of those adequately explain my regards to you.

As an aside; have you spoken to those emergency doctors since? I can imagine the trauma of having to do such an extreme procedure on a kid knowing you could feel every second of it.

Knowing what I know about nerve blocks, they would have wasted a lot of precious time doing the blocks. Plus, I'm not sure they can even do a nerve block on the entire body ??