count me in on those who have a strange time after anesthesia. I remember after one surgery when they wake you in the operating room before going to recovery them saying she is not breathing on her own...I could hear everything, I got so scared but could not force myself to breathe of course. clearly I am alive so I recovered but I then feel weird, hard to explain for a long time, many weeks after. It is far longer than the recovery from the actual surgery site.