Rylan was also talking about waking up in terrible pain after surgery and being treated dismissively and not given enough pain medication (
here and
here, although I can't find other posts about it, Twitter search just sucks for me right now). She blamed it on the hospital staff being transphobic.
A lot of those anesthesia articles talk about having to go light on certain drugs when the patient is waking up, and having to manage opioids differently, because of the difficult airway issue and how hard it is to manage problems if something goes bad.
It's hard to tell without knowing more details, but given the other woman's story about Gallagher and the anesthesiologist, I wonder whether this was a factor in Rylan's severe pain after surgery. Maybe the people caring for her just didn't have sufficient experience managing obese patients getting elective surgery?
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very young child, yes. Adolescent (or approaching adolescent) child, no. Or else I can only assume that you and I were doing "close emotional bonds" very differently.