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It kills me that they don't sedate adults for BMBs. My son's doctor used to treat both adults and children, and now only treats children at a children's hospital. She said giving biopsies with local anesthesia to adults was awful. She thinks everyone should be put under. When my son gets a BMB it is so fast that the anesthesia barely affects him. He wakes up right away and feels fine. Nothing like when he had his Port-o-Cath put in. Then he was under anesthesia for 45 minutes and really felt it. Woke up slurring, threw up after eating that night, a very hard recovery. I almost fell out of my chair when she said that ATG treatment is out-patient for adults in the US. My son had so many complications that he had to be in the PICU. How could he have those complications at home? We live 1 hr from the hospital! It's a shame what "cost-saving" has done in the US.
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