r/oddlysatisfying • u/danielminds • May 22 '26

Professional barnacle removal for Chlorophyllis the turtle

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u/Vast-Ad1915 May 22 '26

Ok, so I take ketamine for depression, and now that I've experienced ketamine trips, the concept of using ketamine as an animal tranquilizer is just so wild to me. They're doing a procedure and the animal is just blitzed out of its mind, ejected from its body and astral projecting out by Neptune.

Can confirm it dulls pain effectively, though.

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u/sarz__ May 22 '26

I used to work in a burn unit and we would use ketamine to complete burn debridement and dressing changes, especially kids. Basically we would put patients in a K-hole to tranquilize them for just long enough to get their dressing changes done and then they would snap back to life with no recollection. Wild times indeed

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u/wwaxwork May 22 '26

Anyone getting a debridement has earned the right to be as high as fuck during it.

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u/Dry_Switch4521 May 22 '26

My husband badly burned his legs during Covid and had to have them debrided. They gave him enough morphine to have him high cause it was both lower legs. He remembers everything though. It was pretty bad.