Hank Wolgamott, who has hemophilia A, and his mother, Amanda live in Texas. They share funny stories about times that Hank was given anesthesia for surgeries.

Hank: We’ve never had that much trouble at the hospital, but there was a kind of funny thing. Nosebleeds and all with hemophilia, they can get pretty bad.

So I need nose cauterizations, and those wear off kind of fast for me. For my fifth nose cauterization — they always put me on anesthesia during those, as you should.

So when I was going under, I was like, “I’m not feeling all that tired.” And then I kind of blinked, then my eyes just stayed closed and I kind of fell fast asleep. And then when I woke up after the surgery, it felt like I had just unblinked my eyes. And this hadn’t happened before, by the way.

So I kind of like jolted up in the recovery room and I was like, “Did they do it yet?” And they were like, “Yes, it’s been three hours.” So I’d, like, just woken up. I probably should have been weak at that point, but I was just confused because I thought I had blinked, but I didn’t.

Amanda: I have another story. He used to have a port, and he was getting his port taken out. I think he was about 7 at the time.

The surgeon came in and Hank had brought a stuffed animal with him. And so she put a hospital bracelet on the stuffed animal, and then she also gave the animal anesthesia, so they both could go under at the same time.

Hank: Yeah, that stuffed animal smelled like cherry anesthesia for the next while.