Dear Caring4U
I am an anesthesiologist and reading your post greatly offended me. Your attitude that you can order up the type of anesthesia like you are at McDonalds is one of my most hated areas of my job. The idea that you tell the anesthesiologist the type of anesthesia you want is akin to telling the surgeon I want only a partial meniscectomy, no chondroplasty and leave my synovium intact. You need years of expertise to understand the nuances of each surgery and the anesthesia for each. For you to get this surgery completely awake you would have needed a spinal or a combination block femoral and sciatic block, with this you would have had no pain but you would have felt movement and things happening in your knee. With the spinal you would have had a 5 min period where 30 % of people vomit and then you would have waited in the RR 90+min for your leg and bladder function to return. With the nerve block you would have had two injections mild - mod pain with injection -- taking 5-15min to perform each block and then you would have had a 'dead' leg for 6-18hrs. Also you would have gotten near toxic levels of local anesthetic to combine both blocks. So don't feel so hurt nobody intentionally tried to harm you it was in your best interest and next time there can be less nauseating anesthetics. Understand that you are not an expert and that dictating care like you are doing is putting you at risk for complications.