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Secret Wonderings after Surgery

© Kathern Welsh

Have you ever wondered what it was like to have a hallucination? Well, so have I and I found out. It's another world within your mind that seems totally real and unless you can separate the real from the unreal - well, it would be very easy to get lost and succumb to the enticements and lure of a world of characters and things that don't exist in the real world.

I was admitted to the hospital on Monday morning to have my second lumbar spinal fusion on Tuesday. The first operation, done from abdomen a year before, had not healed and this time, the surgeon opted for cutting open my lower back. Everything went well, except that I had an unexpected reaction to the anesthetic, which resulted in days of hallucinations and nearly constant periods of delirium. I ended up being "out of my head" for about 10 days, and what an experience it was! To my mind, those ten days seemed like three weeks. I had some adventures that seemed so real... it took quite some time to realize it was all in my mind; purely figments of my unconscious imagination.

There were other experiences which were on the soul level and caused some drastic changes in my life. I know many people will doubt that any experiences such as this are real and claim they are caused by the anesthetic and are nothing but "bad trips". I respect their right to their opinions. As for me... I am convinced that there is indeed life after death and that my soul will live on in a wondrous state of ecstasy and freedom such as mortal man cannot hope to comprehend. The whole episode lasted three weeks, although to my mind it seemed more like two months, and there are many pieces to the puzzle. I hold only a part of the story - the part no one else knows. Many have said that I would be unable to remember the events I experienced in my delirious mind, but so far, it is all quite vivid in my memory. While it looked to others like I was lying there quietly in the bed, my mind and soul were having some extraordinary adventures. These experiences were so real, that the memories they created in my mind seem as authentic as other actual. I came out of the experience changed in many ways. Foods that tasted good before no longer hold any appeal for me. I now like to drink water, after avoiding it, preferring my A&W Diet Cream Soda to anything else. Also, my enormous cravings for sweets have dwindled radically.

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