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I ended up declining general anesthesia at the last moment when the doctor offered a consent doc to using my data in the training set for ML detection, leading to a quick discussion of being in the computing field, and he offered that I could stay awake and watch the video feed instead. Hell yes, I’d prefer that!

So, I got some kind of pain relief or relaxant but no anesthesia and it was really interesting and enjoyable to watch the procedure.

The prep was only slightly inconvenient and the overall process didn’t come anywhere near to how people talk about or build it up.