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The anesthetized patient on the operating table is immobilized to prevent movement during surgery, but nobody on the medical team knows that behind those eyes taped shut is a mind that is still awake.
Every word is heard, every cut is felt.
The scenario is horrifying fiction. Hayden Christensen portrays the patient in the movie 'Awake,' which opened nationwide Friday. But scarier still is the fact that about 30,000 people a year experience their own real-life versions of the operating room nightmare.
"To hear them say, 'You have to cut deeper' and 'pull harder' is traumatic," says Carol Weihrer, who founded the Anesthesia Awareness Campaign after she was alert but paralyzed when doctors removed her right eye. "I was awake. I was awake."
She could not make a noise during her painful surgery. She felt them moving a breathing tube in her throat. She listened to them discuss how long it would take to fix a broken piece of equipment.
Quite a scary scenario... I had no idea this was happening to so many people. So, sodaheads, does this number surprise you? And has this happened to anybody you know?
Every word is heard, every cut is felt.
The scenario is horrifying fiction. Hayden Christensen portrays the patient in the movie 'Awake,' which opened nationwide Friday. But scarier still is the fact that about 30,000 people a year experience their own real-life versions of the operating room nightmare.
"To hear them say, 'You have to cut deeper' and 'pull harder' is traumatic," says Carol Weihrer, who founded the Anesthesia Awareness Campaign after she was alert but paralyzed when doctors removed her right eye. "I was awake. I was awake."
She could not make a noise during her painful surgery. She felt them moving a breathing tube in her throat. She listened to them discuss how long it would take to fix a broken piece of equipment.
Quite a scary scenario... I had no idea this was happening to so many people. So, sodaheads, does this number surprise you? And has this happened to anybody you know?
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Yeah it was bad I have an attorney but he's taking his sweet old time, I haven't gotten a follow up call in over 4 months now, I would and have gone under surgery again since that horrible experience, it just happend this March. It was so bad, I could see what was going on in the room and felt everything, I was telling them to stop, I was saying ouch it hurts,stuff like that. I was like crying and everything. In the recovery room when I was trying to tell them what happend they just brushed it off like it was the anesthesia talking.It wasn't untill the next day that they took me serious, then they didn't care.I never even recieved an apology from anyone in the office, a couple months later I had a complication and had to go back there, they even had the nerves to send me the lab bill, so I decided to get an attorney, I tried to work it out with them but they didn't care now they can work it out with my lawyer.
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Answered This number definitely suprises me, but it thankfully hasn't happened to anybody I know!
Wow! That is pretty weird.
My mother went through a surgery and remembers that when she woke up doctors said she was ready to go home shortly. How terrifying it would be to wake up in the middle of surgery to see sharp objects cutting through your skin. ::shivers:: -
Answered This number doesnt really surprise me, and it hasn't happened to anybody I know
creepy!!!!!
I just had my boob cut open and biopsied with NO anasthesia....it is a disgusting, painful scary thing feeling a scalpel slice you...i wouldnt wish it on ANYONE!!!! -
Answered The number totally surprises me and it has happened to somebody I know!!
Wow!!! That number is unbelievable. My grandmother, when she was 86 had her gallbladder removed. Back then (over 35 years ago) to remove a gallbladder they had to made an incision that ran from the center front just below the chest all the way around to the back. After the surgery she started to tell the surgeon everything that was said during the surgery. The surgeon told her there was no way she could have heard all of that but had no expaination as to how she knew everything that was said. At the time I thought she might have left her body and observed her surgery from outside her physical body, now I think they didn't put her under deep enough and she was aware of what was going on. She never said she felt any pain, thank God, only that she could hear everything. -
Answered This number definitely suprises me, but it thankfully hasn't happened to anybody I know!
It hasn't ever happened to me or anyone else I've met, but I did once have a teacher who preferred to have surgery while being conscious. They doctors still gave her enough anaesthesia to make it painless, but she, for some reason, preferred to know what was going on while the doctors fiddled with her body. This wasn't a huge surprise since most of the class thought that she was just a little on the looney side.
Answered The number totally surprises me and it has happened to somebody I know!!
My morhter's friend was getting knee surgery and she was never put under properly. She wasn't happy about that!