I Was Awake The Whole Time 💀

Added: 2026-05-26

[00:00:00]I woke up from my surgery with a pain in my stomach, but I couldn't speak because of the anesthesia. And that's when my surgeon asked the nurse in Spanish, "One of the clamps is missing. Did you count all the tools before we stitched her up?" "I thought you counted them," the nurse said. And that's when the surgeon told her, "I think we left a clamp inside her." The nurse immediately panicked, asking what to do. "Nothing.

[00:00:17]We can't open her back up now. It would look suspicious," he said. "I tried to tell them I understood every word, but my tongue still couldn't work because of the anesthesia. But if she gets an infection, she could die," the nurse told him. But the surgeon said they would just blame my diabetes since no one could know they messed up the surgery. Wait, I said, but it came out garbled. And so the surgeon told the nurse to sedate me because they needed me quiet while they figured this out.

[00:00:38]And so the nurse pushed something into my IV that made me feel foggy, but I fought to stay awake. What if someone finds out? The nurse asked. No one will find out. She doesn't speak Spanish, the surgeon said. Then he confidently explained that by the time I woke up, they would have papers saying I had diabetes so no one would catch them.

[00:00:52]This feels wrong, the nurse said. And I thought I was safe. But the doctor yelled. You want to lose your license?

[00:00:56]Remember, you counted the instruments, so you're also responsible. That's when I started to feel my tongue again. So, I knew the anesthesia was wearing off. If she codes, we say it was diabetic shock.

[00:01:05]Understood? The surgeon asked.

[00:01:06]Understood? The nurse said, and that's when I said in perfect Spanish, I understood every single word you said.

[00:01:11]Their faces went white. I switched to English, saying I wanted the hospital administrator, or else I was calling the police. And so, the hospital administrator barged into my room, and after I told her everything, she rushed me into surgery. When I woke up again, a new surgeon was standing over me holding a huge clamp. This was inside your stomach, she said.