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[–]MezozoicGay 7 insightful - 1 fun7 insightful - 0 fun8 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Full anesthesia can be hurtful for people with weak health or weak heart, so some people always have surgeries with local anesthesia or spinal anesthesia.

[–]MarkTwainiac 7 insightful - 1 fun7 insightful - 0 fun8 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Also, it's not just those with "weak health or weak heart" for whom full anesthesia "can be hurtful." Full anesthesia can have all sorts of harmful effects on otherwise healthy people too. Some of these effects - such as depression - aren't evident until long afterwards.

My sense is that the person described in the OP does not know the difference between an epidural and a spinal, similar to the way many TIMs don't know the difference between a vulva and a vagina.