World-first conscious brain surgery.

this is damn cool.
conscious while the doctors & nurses 'playing' with ur brain.
LOL.

clipped from news.yahoo.com Australian has 'world-first' conscious brain surgery SYDNEY (AFP) - An Australian man was conscious and spoke to his medical team during life-saving brain surgery in what doctors are claiming as a world-first procedure with cutting-edge technology. John James said it was a strange experience to hear the doctors and nurses talking to each other as he lay on the operating table with a 1.5-centimetre hole in his head. he was confident throughout surgery to remove an aneurysm from his brain, which threatened to burst and kill him. "The nurses looking after me, they were talking to me," the retired bus driver told "I could only see bits because I couldn't move my head at all." Doctors asked James to read the words and numbers on flashcards shown to him during the surgery so they knew they were not affecting his vision. Surgery was required but because the aneurysm was behind his right eye the operation could have blinded him, which is why the doctors wanted him awake during the procedure.