November 14, 2024 • 8 mins
This is pure nightmare fuel. We’re going through all the worst stories about waking up during surgery. From not being able to move but feeling and hearing everything it is honestly our worst fear.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
This is the Fitting and Whip with Kate Richie podcast.
Speaker 2 (00:03):
Love to know if you've woken up during a surgery
when you were meant to be out and then all
of a sudden the anesthetic has worn off and you've
gone hang on a minute, but why can I see
bone sticking out of my leg?
Speaker 3 (00:15):
I'm not a big fan of beneath. It's just I
shouldn't say that.
Speaker 1 (00:18):
Well, it's a very skilled job.
Speaker 4 (00:20):
I'm highly allergic to morphine.
Speaker 3 (00:24):
Like morphine makes me so sick and nauseous that I
say every Because I've had twelve surgeries and I've said
to him every time I go in, and the last guy,
I said, I can you use pethidine as a pain
killer because it's it's a lot better. And the guy
laughed at the guy laughed at me and goes, oh,
(00:45):
that's no one uses pathodene anymore. He said, oh, look,
I'm sorry, but most painkillers. I'll try to, but most
of them have a little bit of morphine in them.
Woke up crooked as a doult on top of the surgery,
on top of a surgeon, which was weird.
Speaker 4 (01:04):
As well as well as the surgery.
Speaker 2 (01:06):
You are feeling when there's been a great chat online
going on about disasters and nightmare stories of people waking up.
One is a dentistry story where they were having the
wisdom teeth up out and woke up halfway through the
surgery to hear them talking about getting tacos for lunch,
(01:27):
So they weren't even focused on the operation. They were
just standing around the bed discussing with the best from
a conversation.
Speaker 4 (01:35):
What are you going with? You going with a beef
mint or i'd go fish.
Speaker 1 (01:40):
Oh, he's awake. Should we get his order or finish
the operation?
Speaker 4 (01:43):
But often people.
Speaker 3 (01:44):
Wake up, don't they And they can hear everything, but
they can't move or notify anyone.
Speaker 1 (01:48):
How's this one?
Speaker 2 (01:49):
Another dentistry story where they woke up and the teeth
were just getting broken. They said you could overhear them saying,
she's got very twted long roots. We're going to have
to break up the teeth, and they were pulling them
out of the mouth so I could.
Speaker 4 (02:05):
Get a dragon tree out of the ground, isn't it?
Speaker 2 (02:07):
Oh my god, it's exactly like getting a dragon tree
out of the ground.
Speaker 3 (02:12):
Charlie and Pedstad, did you have a crazy surgery experience?
Speaker 5 (02:15):
Hey, guys. Yeah, this is probably back PTSD. So I
was getting weight loss surgery and I was under on
the table. Didn't really like they asked me to come
backwards from ten. Didn't think anything of it. I can't remember
getting plus five. And then I was like, why can
I hear people speaking? I could hear them vain things.
(02:36):
So keep in mind, I'm under four weight loss surgery.
So yeah, people in my stomach, right, yep. I could
hear them talking about how fat I was.
Speaker 3 (02:47):
Oh my, Charlie distinctly remember this. Did you open your
eyes at all, Charlie or did you go back under?
Speaker 5 (02:54):
My eyes were taped. I couldn't open my eyes because
they were taking But I was laying there thinking, I
just need to old, I need to say something. I
couldn't move, I couldn't say anything, and I was just
laying there and just like listening to them call me
a fat pig. They were like all these names. I
don't know what to do in this situation.
Speaker 4 (03:14):
See, Charlie, you couldn't prove that.
Speaker 3 (03:16):
You couldn't prove that at all to anybody, since your
word against their word, isn't it no?
Speaker 5 (03:21):
And I won't. I weren't out where I got it
done and they were lovely after the surgery.
Speaker 1 (03:25):
But did you tell them, Charlie?
Speaker 5 (03:28):
No, because I came out and I was like was
that just me and myself conscious about how fat I was?
Because I admittedly I was quite big, but like I
was like, did I dream that? Yeah?
Speaker 3 (03:40):
You can't really trust you that, Charlie confront them again afterwards, Charlie,
was there a moment?
Speaker 5 (03:46):
Well, there would have been, because they come in like
and do bold, like are you okay? Like all the
aftercare surgery, the stuff that they come in aftercare. But
just like I say, I didn't know whether it was
real or not. I didn't know whether it was true.
Speaker 1 (04:00):
How scary, Charlie? Has you weight now? Mate? Under control?
Speaker 5 (04:03):
I have lost sixty nine?
Speaker 6 (04:04):
Key?
Speaker 2 (04:05):
Well, well done.
Speaker 3 (04:10):
That is a great It's a horrible story, but a
great great.
Speaker 1 (04:14):
At Darren in Penrith, what happened to your dad?
Speaker 7 (04:18):
My dad had the kemea and they used to truly
into his hit to get samples of his pone barrow
and they've done it too many times over a period
of time, and they went in for one bore they
couldn't get a sample and he woke up as they
were drilling into his chest.
Speaker 3 (04:35):
Oh, Darren, each chest, because the thing that I freak
out is that when you do wake up, you instantly
start moving and going, why are you on top of me?
What's happening? And you start freaking out? Can you remember
it distinctly, Darren?
Speaker 7 (04:49):
He remember because I remember him telling me clearly as
to what was going on. He could talk to everyone
what was going on. He could feel what was happening,
but he couldn't feel any paint temptation.
Speaker 4 (05:00):
Oh my god, that.
Speaker 2 (05:03):
Sound of the drill would be locked into your brain forever.
I reckon, gosh, if that moment happened.
Speaker 4 (05:09):
In Paramount, I tell us about your surgery.
Speaker 8 (05:11):
In so, it's happened a couple of times to me,
most recently about four weeks ago. I was under and
unfortunately I didn't I didn't go to the loo again
right before my surgery, which is important information for later on.
And I was under, and then I woke up in
the surgery and I could feel that I was still incubated,
(05:33):
and I could feel the tube and I tried to
move and I was paralyzed, and I could hear them
talking about what had occurred since I didn't go to
the loo. I heard them talking about it, and sure
enough when I woke up, the evidence was in a
little SnapLock bag at the end of the bed.
Speaker 1 (05:51):
Oh, okay, number two.
Speaker 4 (05:54):
Do they leave the evidence just to show you.
Speaker 1 (05:57):
Just here's why we suggest you go to the bathroom.
Speaker 8 (05:59):
Before I was a little bit, I had gone, but
then I waited another fifteen minutes, which was apparently too long.
And look, they did their best, but my undies were
in a little bag.
Speaker 2 (06:11):
And it's framed and they're up in the Pollom was like,
you had an accident like you in kindergarten, and thanks
for your call on your honesty.
Speaker 1 (06:21):
Belinda and Lane cove what happened?
Speaker 6 (06:25):
I had to have some surgery on my eye. I
was having some posture problems and so under twilight sedation,
I was having a trapdoor cut into my eyes. About
halfway through the surgery, about an hour in, I woke
up to a blinding light in that injured eye and
water splashing through the other eye and me trying to
(06:46):
pull the machine off that was holding my eye in
place to operate. The surgeon told me that I had
been twitching on the bed and they'd had.
Speaker 7 (06:55):
To move a lot slower through the operation.
Speaker 6 (06:58):
And that I had had too much to dation and
that they couldn't put me fully under. So for the
next hour I had to be awake, listening to the
rest of the operation and holding the anethetus pan to.
Speaker 3 (07:10):
Get through any pain at all, Blinda, For any pain,
there was more.
Speaker 6 (07:18):
Just pulling and a feeling just of water. And I've
been awake and knowing that someone was cutting the trap door.
And so it was a very very long hour. The
whole procedure was meant to take an hour and it
took two. Just recently, how positive might have to have
(07:40):
it again, But a PTSD is going to.
Speaker 8 (07:43):
Get it in my way.
Speaker 2 (07:45):
Belinda, thank you for your calls. Did you want to
show you of a sectory story matter? You're right, just
couldn't believe what they were doing down there.
Speaker 3 (07:51):
They're The thing is, there's no way that you can
prove any of this, and I can understand and to me,
but it's their word against yours.
Speaker 1 (08:00):
If you wanted to take it further, well, this is
the thing. Yeah, I mean they would agree.
Speaker 4 (08:04):
An offense or anything.
Speaker 2 (08:06):
No, I think you probably signed that off in the
waiver if you accidentally wake up, or we're drilling into
your bones.
Speaker 1 (08:13):
We tried, guys, Sorry forever. Sorry, He's your Bill.
Speaker 2 (08:18):
Sits in Whipper with Kate Ritchie is a Nova podcast
walk great shows like this.
Speaker 1 (08:23):
Download the Nova player, Fire the app store, or Google
playing the
This is the Fitting and Whip with Kate Richie podcast.
Speaker 2 (00:03):
Love to know if you've woken up during a surgery
when you were meant to be out and then all
of a sudden the anesthetic has worn off and you've
gone hang on a minute, but why can I see
bone sticking out of my leg?
Speaker 3 (00:15):
I'm not a big fan of beneath. It's just I
shouldn't say that.
Speaker 1 (00:18):
Well, it's a very skilled job.
Speaker 4 (00:20):
I'm highly allergic to morphine.
Speaker 3 (00:24):
Like morphine makes me so sick and nauseous that I
say every Because I've had twelve surgeries and I've said
to him every time I go in, and the last guy,
I said, I can you use pethidine as a pain
killer because it's it's a lot better. And the guy
laughed at the guy laughed at me and goes, oh,
(00:45):
that's no one uses pathodene anymore. He said, oh, look,
I'm sorry, but most painkillers. I'll try to, but most
of them have a little bit of morphine in them.
Woke up crooked as a doult on top of the surgery,
on top of a surgeon, which was weird.
Speaker 4 (01:04):
As well as well as the surgery.
Speaker 2 (01:06):
You are feeling when there's been a great chat online
going on about disasters and nightmare stories of people waking up.
One is a dentistry story where they were having the
wisdom teeth up out and woke up halfway through the
surgery to hear them talking about getting tacos for lunch,
(01:27):
So they weren't even focused on the operation. They were
just standing around the bed discussing with the best from
a conversation.
Speaker 4 (01:35):
What are you going with? You going with a beef
mint or i'd go fish.
Speaker 1 (01:40):
Oh, he's awake. Should we get his order or finish
the operation?
Speaker 4 (01:43):
But often people.
Speaker 3 (01:44):
Wake up, don't they And they can hear everything, but
they can't move or notify anyone.
Speaker 1 (01:48):
How's this one?
Speaker 2 (01:49):
Another dentistry story where they woke up and the teeth
were just getting broken. They said you could overhear them saying,
she's got very twted long roots. We're going to have
to break up the teeth, and they were pulling them
out of the mouth so I could.
Speaker 4 (02:05):
Get a dragon tree out of the ground, isn't it?
Speaker 2 (02:07):
Oh my god, it's exactly like getting a dragon tree
out of the ground.
Speaker 3 (02:12):
Charlie and Pedstad, did you have a crazy surgery experience?
Speaker 5 (02:15):
Hey, guys. Yeah, this is probably back PTSD. So I
was getting weight loss surgery and I was under on
the table. Didn't really like they asked me to come
backwards from ten. Didn't think anything of it. I can't remember
getting plus five. And then I was like, why can
I hear people speaking? I could hear them vain things.
(02:36):
So keep in mind, I'm under four weight loss surgery.
So yeah, people in my stomach, right, yep. I could
hear them talking about how fat I was.
Speaker 3 (02:47):
Oh my, Charlie distinctly remember this. Did you open your
eyes at all, Charlie or did you go back under?
Speaker 5 (02:54):
My eyes were taped. I couldn't open my eyes because
they were taking But I was laying there thinking, I
just need to old, I need to say something. I
couldn't move, I couldn't say anything, and I was just
laying there and just like listening to them call me
a fat pig. They were like all these names. I
don't know what to do in this situation.
Speaker 4 (03:14):
See, Charlie, you couldn't prove that.
Speaker 3 (03:16):
You couldn't prove that at all to anybody, since your
word against their word, isn't it no?
Speaker 5 (03:21):
And I won't. I weren't out where I got it
done and they were lovely after the surgery.
Speaker 1 (03:25):
But did you tell them, Charlie?
Speaker 5 (03:28):
No, because I came out and I was like was
that just me and myself conscious about how fat I was?
Because I admittedly I was quite big, but like I
was like, did I dream that? Yeah?
Speaker 3 (03:40):
You can't really trust you that, Charlie confront them again afterwards, Charlie,
was there a moment?
Speaker 5 (03:46):
Well, there would have been, because they come in like
and do bold, like are you okay? Like all the
aftercare surgery, the stuff that they come in aftercare. But
just like I say, I didn't know whether it was
real or not. I didn't know whether it was true.
Speaker 1 (04:00):
How scary, Charlie? Has you weight now? Mate? Under control?
Speaker 5 (04:03):
I have lost sixty nine?
Speaker 6 (04:04):
Key?
Speaker 2 (04:05):
Well, well done.
Speaker 3 (04:10):
That is a great It's a horrible story, but a
great great.
Speaker 1 (04:14):
At Darren in Penrith, what happened to your dad?
Speaker 7 (04:18):
My dad had the kemea and they used to truly
into his hit to get samples of his pone barrow
and they've done it too many times over a period
of time, and they went in for one bore they
couldn't get a sample and he woke up as they
were drilling into his chest.
Speaker 3 (04:35):
Oh, Darren, each chest, because the thing that I freak
out is that when you do wake up, you instantly
start moving and going, why are you on top of me?
What's happening? And you start freaking out? Can you remember
it distinctly, Darren?
Speaker 7 (04:49):
He remember because I remember him telling me clearly as
to what was going on. He could talk to everyone
what was going on. He could feel what was happening,
but he couldn't feel any paint temptation.
Speaker 4 (05:00):
Oh my god, that.
Speaker 2 (05:03):
Sound of the drill would be locked into your brain forever.
I reckon, gosh, if that moment happened.
Speaker 4 (05:09):
In Paramount, I tell us about your surgery.
Speaker 8 (05:11):
In so, it's happened a couple of times to me,
most recently about four weeks ago. I was under and
unfortunately I didn't I didn't go to the loo again
right before my surgery, which is important information for later on.
And I was under, and then I woke up in
the surgery and I could feel that I was still incubated,
(05:33):
and I could feel the tube and I tried to
move and I was paralyzed, and I could hear them
talking about what had occurred since I didn't go to
the loo. I heard them talking about it, and sure
enough when I woke up, the evidence was in a
little SnapLock bag at the end of the bed.
Speaker 1 (05:51):
Oh, okay, number two.
Speaker 4 (05:54):
Do they leave the evidence just to show you.
Speaker 1 (05:57):
Just here's why we suggest you go to the bathroom.
Speaker 8 (05:59):
Before I was a little bit, I had gone, but
then I waited another fifteen minutes, which was apparently too long.
And look, they did their best, but my undies were
in a little bag.
Speaker 2 (06:11):
And it's framed and they're up in the Pollom was like,
you had an accident like you in kindergarten, and thanks
for your call on your honesty.
Speaker 1 (06:21):
Belinda and Lane cove what happened?
Speaker 6 (06:25):
I had to have some surgery on my eye. I
was having some posture problems and so under twilight sedation,
I was having a trapdoor cut into my eyes. About
halfway through the surgery, about an hour in, I woke
up to a blinding light in that injured eye and
water splashing through the other eye and me trying to
(06:46):
pull the machine off that was holding my eye in
place to operate. The surgeon told me that I had
been twitching on the bed and they'd had.
Speaker 7 (06:55):
To move a lot slower through the operation.
Speaker 6 (06:58):
And that I had had too much to dation and
that they couldn't put me fully under. So for the
next hour I had to be awake, listening to the
rest of the operation and holding the anethetus pan to.
Speaker 3 (07:10):
Get through any pain at all, Blinda, For any pain,
there was more.
Speaker 6 (07:18):
Just pulling and a feeling just of water. And I've
been awake and knowing that someone was cutting the trap door.
And so it was a very very long hour. The
whole procedure was meant to take an hour and it
took two. Just recently, how positive might have to have
(07:40):
it again, But a PTSD is going to.
Speaker 8 (07:43):
Get it in my way.
Speaker 2 (07:45):
Belinda, thank you for your calls. Did you want to
show you of a sectory story matter? You're right, just
couldn't believe what they were doing down there.
Speaker 3 (07:51):
They're The thing is, there's no way that you can
prove any of this, and I can understand and to me,
but it's their word against yours.
Speaker 1 (08:00):
If you wanted to take it further, well, this is
the thing. Yeah, I mean they would agree.
Speaker 4 (08:04):
An offense or anything.
Speaker 2 (08:06):
No, I think you probably signed that off in the
waiver if you accidentally wake up, or we're drilling into
your bones.
Speaker 1 (08:13):
We tried, guys, Sorry forever. Sorry, He's your Bill.
Speaker 2 (08:18):
Sits in Whipper with Kate Ritchie is a Nova podcast
walk great shows like this.
Speaker 1 (08:23):
Download the Nova player, Fire the app store, or Google
playing the
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