pud99
Senior Member
Regarding Ford saying in that interview that he did not receive a general anaesthetic ("they didn't put me out"), only a regional block ("they just froze the area"): I checked with some anaesthesiologists. In sum, what Ford said is utter nonsense. They would have started him off with a thoracic epidural (which likely would not have worked terribly well, due to his being a hyper obese patient) and then given him a general anaesthetic. He would have been "under" for >90% of the time (and probably for some time in the recovery room, as it is difficult to time the ending of the effect of general anaesthetics in hyper obese patients). So, either Ford knows that he received a general anaesthetic and was lying regarding something about which he had no need to lie (which of course is far from unknown for him) or he does not actually recall what happened after he received the thoracic epidural (which is high likely) combined with the fact that not knowing what happened never gets in the way of him speaking as if he does.