Speaking from the personal experience of one author who shall remain nameless, a first gastroscopy is genuinely unpleasant. Having a colonoscopy and a gastroscopy back-to-back without anesthesia is a special kind of exquisite agony—he was even singled out by a nurse and sent for thirty minutes of electroacupuncture beforehand, to test whether using acupuncture to slow intestinal peristalsis and ease the pain of endoscopies could be adopted more widely. After all, not many reckless idiots are willing to undergo both procedures without anesthesia.
So when Naji dry-heaved from an overwhelming wave of nausea but couldn’t bring anything up, Torina...
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