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Boy, do you have that pegged...I could be dying, and still smoke a cig..

When I had my appendix out, when I was in my early 20s, I remember waking up in the recovery room, and my doc was leaning over me, just checking me out, to make sure I was coming to ok...he asked if there was anything he could do for me, and I asked him for a cig...he just grinned, and said no smoking allowed in recovery...(This was in the good old days, when you could still smoke in your hospital room)

When they got me to my room, they gave me some sort of shot, for the pain, and I guess I passed out for a while...but I do remember, after waking up after that shot wore off, I asked the nurse to get my cigs and ashtray...she thought it unwise to begin smoking so soon after surgery, however, she obliged me...I then had a cig, with no ill effects...

Tho, I must say, I have really cut way down on my smoking with being this sick...just a couple cigs a day now...would be good if I could stick to that...