75 Incredibly Bizarre Things Patients Uttered Under Anesthesia That Will Shock You
She was quite serious, and he never asked that question again.
After oral surgery my teen didn’t want to talk (obviously) so she started using sign language (ASL is a language option at her school) the aftercare nurses assumed she was deaf and asked me to translate. I was like 🤷🏼♀️ and told her to use her words.
I’m sure for a couple of microseconds they thought I was the worst parent ever.
Also, if you found this list amusing, check out another hilarious list of wild things patients said after their anesthesia wore off!
Patient here, and it wasn’t anything I said. I recently had an endoscopy performed. As they are wheeling me out of the procedure room, I tried to reach for my mouth, and the recovery nurses were becoming more and more forceful in trying to prevent it. I knew I wasn’t coherent enough to try and explain, but I could just forcefully hold up a finger, as if to say “JUST WAIT A SECOND.”
I reached in my mouth and removed a bite guard that they forgot. (I had a bite guard because they had to intubate me.)
They immediately relaxed and I heard one go “Oh. Yeah. That you can do.”.
I asked the nurse* to adopt me, except she didn’t understand what I was mumbling, so my husband translated.
She didn’t adopt me, but she gave me a little pillow which I still have years later.
*recovery nurse, not anesthesiologist.
After I got a tonsillectomy when I was about 16, I woke up and thought there was a cat in the recovery room. I don’t really remember it, but my mom said I woke up and yelled that cats shouldn’t be in a hospital. My mom and the nurse were trying to calm me down and get me to stop talking, so I just started meowing instead. I really don’t remember it, but my mom loves telling that story.
I didn’t necessarily say something funny, but I guess my anesthesiologist must have find it funny. I was being put under and I was scared shitless, so he started asking questions to ease my mind a bit. He asked about things I still wanted to do and I replied that I really wanted to see the Northern Lights. I had an oxygen mask on too and the medicine started working so I guess my words didn’t come out normally and he heard just “to see the lights”. I remember his eyes getting big and having a bit of a shocked expression (I have a history of depression and s******l ideations). He redirected to the bright lights in the room. “Look, we got pretty lights above you” he said and started to explain how the surgical light worked. He thought I wanted to d*e, but I just wanted to see the Northern Lights man.
I remember when I was last put under, and coming out of it they were moving me to a room. The hall way I got transferred thru felt a little cold. I said to the nurse “are you taking me outside? You know its winter time right now”.
When my husband was waking up from wisdom teeth removal the nurse came out to get me. She asked me if he had an affinity for baked goods. I replied that he doesn’t really have a sweet tooth, but his nickname for me is Muffin. As we get closer I hear my husband singing at top volume “I love me a fluffy muffin top muffin for the snufflin” . I was equal parts mortified and proud lol.
I went in to see my husband in recovery, carrying a couple of our babies, after he had major abdominal surgery. He sat straight up 😬 and asked rather dramatically if we were ok. Yes, sweet thing, we had breakfast, YOU had surgery.
Not an anaesthesiologist, but my dad insisted the one nurse had three legs. Eventually he decided there was something up with her shoes. There wasn’t.
My husband had a colonoscopy today and when he was more alert I told him that the gastroenterologist wanted to see him again in 6 months and his response was ‘to say hi?’.
I’ve had a few health issues so a number of surgeries. My husband says I’m so embarrassing because I compliment nurses and staff, but on like things people might be embarrassed by. Like he said he almost left the room when I was complimenting a mole on her face and how symmetry is boring and she looked so interesting I wanted to look at her pretty face for hours, because of her giant mole.
Not an anesthesiologist, but have a funny story of my oldest son.
He didn’t have his tonsils removed until he was 16. By then, he’d been wearing a full beard for a tear and was worried they’d make him shave it off before his surgery or they’d shave him after he got there, despite repeated reassurances he had nothing to worry about.
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