Hi folks,

Am back after the first treatment today and just checking in to let you guys know how it went. And I'm fine, although I wouldn't characterize my first experience as a good one. Had nothing to do with the ECT, but was a real screw-up as far as anesthesia was concerned. Like I mentioned earlier, they give you two drugs - one is a fast acting sedative, and one is a fast acting paralysis agent. Unfortunately they didn't give me enough of the sedative this time, which meant that I woke up while the paralysis agent was still active. What that meant to me was that I had a VERY SCARY episode in which I thought I was suffocating to death and could not breathe and was desperately trying to tell someone about it. Once we got past that it was fine, but I have to be honest about the fact that it was very frightening!

Other than that I'm just very sleepy and have a few sore muscles - no biggie.

Am most definitely going to talk to them about the anesthesia problem on Wednesday and they are going to have to assure me that they will not let that happen again.