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If you are having surgery or test and youneed to lie very still you are going to behaving medicine to help you take a nap.There are doctors and nursesat the hospital that give you thenap medicine.It is not medicine you have to eat or drink. Your body does not have to try totake a nap. It is different than the kind of nap you take at home, or a differentsleep than when you sleepat nighttime. You breathethis medicine with a littlemask. Have you seen a masklike this before? This mask issoft. It goes over your noseand mouth. Your only job isto take a few breaths andthen you will take your nap.7
When you’retaking your nap,the doctor ornurses will giveyou a little straw.Your body will be thirsty, so this little strawwill help your body have a drink while youare sleeping. Have you seen a straw likethis before? It is called an “I.V.”When you wakeup from yournap, you willsee this littlestraw taped toyour body.It may be on your hand, or maybe yourfoot. This is giving your body a little drink.A nurse will slide this little straw out beforeyou go home.
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