So if you can manage to say just one funny thing as soon as you wake up from SRS, what would it be?

Mine would be "i can't feel my bingo"

Haven't had SRS yet...but I could see myself saying, "For some reason, I'm really hungry for a bratwurst."

I planned on saying "that was the best sleep I've ever had in a long time; let's do it again" but waking up to vomit left me with not a lot of one-liners I was up to using. X) I made a couple jokes when I was in ambulance though.

I asked my mom for my soup bear. Considering it was a short Thai lady who wasn't my mom. It was funny

Quote from: Flan on July 23, 2013, 09:03:31 PM
I planned on saying "that was the best sleep I've ever had in a long time; let's do it again" but waking up to vomit left me with not a lot of one-liners I was up to using. X) I made a couple jokes when I was in ambulance though.

Yea.... because of several issues I woke up to extreme levels of pain, and I vomited as well, I was in pretty sore shape...  but this other girl who was there and in a bit better shape, saidto the doc " what the heck did you do???, I asked for you to make in bigger!!!"  lol 

Though I am normally very funny, I was not feeling humorous at that moment. On first waking from surgery I just  felt the most incredible sense of relief and went right back to sleep. I nearly didn't survive long enough to get to SRS and when the battle was over, all I wanted to do was sleep!

The first really humorous  moment came 5 weeks later. I was getting weekly checkups from my gynecologist and asked him at 5 weeks when it would be safe to have sex. He gave me a  wry grin and ask if I had anybody in mind. I blushed furiously (I was very shy!) and said I didn't but was just curios.

By the next visit I was no longer a virgin and I guess he could tell because his head popped up mid-examination and he was grinning from ear to ear. I just turned fifty shades of RED. He asked "How was it?" and I just got redder! 

Even in retrospect, that first awakening was such a profound experience that I can still not think of anything humorous to say about it.

I think I'll say "So, doc ... Is my 'pendix gone now?"

Quote from: ZoeM on July 24, 2013, 06:22:58 AM
I think I'll say "So, doc ... Is my 'pendix gone now?"

Freak him out! Say "What do you mean you cut it off!!??" LOL!

(Yes, I know - bad taste!   )

I was planning on. "I won right?"

Quote from: pebbles on July 24, 2013, 06:03:42 PM
I was planning on. "I won right?"

That'd be a good after FFS...where one looks like Rocky Balboa after a fight...

When I woke up I screamed, sobbed and puked all over. I suppose it is funny in hindsight

When I had my ffs my father was there with me. When he held a mirror up in front of pulp of a face I exclaimed "Damn! I look almost as bad as you!", and we laughed ^_^

"All right everyone. I'll put out the lights and count to ten and if it's put back nobody will get into trouble"

Sounds like many aren't in the mood to be witty, what with the first thing out of the mouth is vomitus...

Oh boy, I can't wait for my turn...

Quote from: Beth Andrea on July 26, 2013, 09:45:47 PM

Omg....best post so far!!!

lol that's awesome 😀 I will take it back vomit wasn't the first thing, but I mainly counted it as 1st actually fully wake as the first coming back to the world I was so medicated I wasn't awake or really coherent long, but I remember asking if it was done, the dr saying "yes you are beautiful" me crying out of happiness, and calling my mom and said through the tears "its a girl" super happy right then and than I was out for 4 or so more hours, when I woke to a level of pain, that I will say as indescribable.

 so waking up from SRS is funny to you. A big joke .
I wished I would have died.

Quote from: victoria n on July 28, 2013, 09:07:25 AM
so waking up from SRS is funny to you. A big joke .
I wished I would have died.

Would you care to elaborate? Was there a lot of discomfort?

Quote from: victoria n on July 28, 2013, 09:07:25 AM
so waking up from SRS is funny to you. A big joke .
I wished I would have died.

See it from our POV--we haven't had it, although we have read many accounts, some go into great detail about pain/discomfort, etc...others had a much more less unpleasant experience.

It is, after all, major surgery...and can produce a pretty fair amount of stress and anxiety before and after. One of the ways to cope with this anxiety is with humor, to try and "see the bright side of life." Even after the fact, after a major pain experience, one should try to cope with the memory by any and all means...including learning to laugh at the intensity of the experience.

Of course, if one wants to go through life angry at others for daring to laugh at trauma (not out of disrespect, but to cope with the reality of it)...all I can do is offer *hugs* and peace to you.

@Beth Andrea:

My initial recovery was exceptionally bad but I don't there's anything wrong with this thread. I think humor is a great way to cope with surgery and I thought a great deal about what witty things I would say when I woke up 

The reality however was that when I woke up after srs it didn't even cross my mind that I now had a vagina, let alone what funny things I had planned to say It was a hellish nightmare that I can't even begin to describe and pain and discomfort seemed to radiate out of some unknown alternate dimension, and it lasted for what seemed like days. Perhaps what caused it was that I had revisions and other procedures done at the same time and spent almost 11 hours on the table 

Instead, for my last surgery, I put my efforts into saying something funny before right before they put me under  🙂