jbcurt00, I actually had a hip replacement surgery about five to six years ago now. And I do remember going in to the OR on a gurney and there were two people sitting at a booth. A guy and a girl. The guy asked me what I was going to have done and I told him my hip and he asked which side and I told him the right side. He then said the surgeon would be in shortly and that he was going to give me (I guess via IV that was already started) something to settle me a little...and that was the last time I remember anything. Then it was like I blinked my eyes and was in a completely different room. Everybody in that room was telling me I was okay and out of surgery and I thought no I'm not, I just went in to surgery. But yes I was and it was hours later too. My sister being a RN came by to see how I was doing because she couldn't be my OR nurse even though that what she was! She told me I was finished. But what I didn't know was she drew a smiley face on the bottom of my foot knowing I wouldn't be able to see it for a long time...
