DEBBIE VISITS A SPANISH MENTAL HOSPITAL
by Rod
Chapter Seventeen
I was awakened by the sound of Maria entering the room. Unfortunately she was
accompanied my Dr. Gonzales who immediately said, "What is she doing without a
gag?
Obviously Elisa has been neglecting this uncontrollable problem patient.
Chain and gag her immediately."
Maria came over to my cage and remarked, "Not the best way to wake up, is it?
Please don't give me a hard time. In my left hand is an electric cattle prod
which I don't want to be forced to use, so just put your back against the cage
side with your hands behind you."
"Maria, you have to help me get out of here," I whispered.
"No talking," she replied. "Elisa is working on something."
I felt the wrist cuffs being linked together and then a large bit gag was forced
into my mouth, the straps going around my head and neck. She then opened the
door of the cage and beckoned for me to crawl out. As I emerged she placed a
short chain between my ankle cuffs.
"Good, that's much better," said Dr. Gonzales. "Let her use the bathroom.
Pedro, my anesthetist will be here any minute and I want her on the table ready
to go when he arrives."
Why was an anesthetist coming I wondered. What had this to do with sensory
deprivation? Soon I was lying on an operating table worrying about what was
going to happen. Would he kill me? This seemed unlikely with Elisa there.
When "Pedro" arrived, they placed me on my side and refastened my wrists in
front of me. Dr. Gonzales then said, "Okay Maria, bring her knees up to her
chin."
I decided that whatever they were planning was not going to happen without a
struggle so I lashed out with my chained legs and swung my arms. Neither
maneuver accomplished anything. Dr. Gonzales jumped back, grabbed the cattle
prod, placed it on my upper back and pushed the trigger. A horrible pain went
down my spine and it seemed as though all my muscles momentarily convulsed. I
shrieked into the gag and tears came to my eyes.
"Now bitch, are you going to curl up for us?" Dr. Gonzales asked.
Maria helped me to get into the position and I felt the other doctor applying a
solution to my lower back.
"Debbie, I am going to put in a little novocaine and then insert a tiny catheter
in around your spinal cord. This will be like a spinal anesthesia but we won't
be putting in the agent just yet."
I felt the little needle but then the area was numb. In a few minutes I felt
tape being applied to the area and they rolled my onto my back. As they secured
my ankles and wrists to the table and placed several broad straps across my body
and lower extremities, I could see the catheter coming out from underneath me.
Dr. Gonzales said, "Debbie, they tell me you are intelligent and clever - and
may be a nurse. I don't believe it but am going to explain what is going to
happen so perhaps you can help us evaluate this experiment. Ordinarily in
sensory deprivation, the person is placed in a tub of body temperature water, is
blindfolded and either subjected to a low level noise or complete silence.
Obviously such a person still feels many things so many sensations are not
really obliterated. We are going to take this approach a few steps further and
will explain this as we go along."
"Pedro is going to attach some monitor leads to your chest and right arm as
Maria starts an IV in your left. Okay, now we are going to start the spinal
anesthesia." With that he injected some medication into the small catheter. I
really couldn't feel any change in my back for a few minutes but then noted a
warm feeling in my body from my waist down.
"Now you will begin to feel numb in your lower body. Can you feel this?" he
asked as he did something to my thighs or legs. I felt a little movement but
nothing more, but I couldn't answer him because of the gag.
"I guess not. Good. Now Maria is going to insert a urinary catheter."
I raised my head to see Maria working between my thighs but could neither feel
her or move my legs. In fact I realized I could feel nothing from my waist down.
Pedro then said, "Debbie I am going to spray something in your ear canals before
putting in some sound absorbent wax which will happen in a few minutes.
Also, I am going to spray your nose, entire mouth, pharynx and larynx so that we
can insert a tube into your trachea or windpipe. Please try to cooperate when I
take out the gag so Dr.
Gonzales will not have to use the prod again."
The spray was bitter and made me cough a little, but not bad. Almost immediately
my lips and tongue became numb.
Dr. Gonzales said, "After we put in the ear wax you will not be able to hear
much at all. So I'll explain the rest. I will be raising the level of spinal
anesthesia right up to your head.
As you know this will eliminate all sensation and muscle power from your neck
down, but does not affect your cranial nerves. We will be blindfolding you with
a special helmet or hood. The nose spray has eliminated smell and the mouth
spray, taste leaving you only with some skin and facial muscle sensations. These
we can almost eliminate with a special paste I have designed. It has a topical
anesthetic effect and forms an adherent mold decreasing your ability to squint,
smile, etc. Finally, the helmet is made of rubber and is inflatable putting a
moderate evenly distributed pressure all over your head. So your sensory
deprivation will be at least 98% complete. Oh yes, your respirations will be
automatically controlled with a respirator so don't worry about that."
"We are very interested in your reaction and response to this, so Maria will be
asking you many questions later and recording your answers. Have fun and I hope
you have all sorts of exciting dreams."
Pedro then put in the ear wax and everything got real quiet. When he removed the
gag I had a chance to yell, "You're a bunch of sadistic bastards. I'll see
that....." then my mouth was stretched open by a laryngoscope and the
endotracheal tube was inserted between my vocal cords completely silencing me.
My mouth was taped shut around the tube and nose plugs of some type were easily
inserted.
Dr. Gonzales placed little pads over my eyes and held them in place with what
felt like scotch tape. Then I felt some thick goo being spread all over my
scalp, face ears and neck.
Finally came the hood which was pulled down to my neck and snugged rather
tightly at that level. The pressure on my face increased as the hood was
inflated and I could feel the goo spreading and becoming thicker. I started to
pull on my wrist restraints but then noticed that I was feeling first warm and
then numb right up to my chin. I couldn't tell whether I was moving anything.
Within minutes, I couldn't feel anything. It was as if I didn't have a body.
There were absolutely no sensations from my neck down. My face seemed to be held
immobile but there was very little pressure anywhere. I could hear absolutely
nothing - except maybe my heart beating which meant I was also breathing but I
had no sensations of this. Briefly I thought I was drifting or floating out of
my body. I tried to yell but couldn't figure out how to do this. Maybe I was
dying.
