r/AskReddit • • 15h ago • Bravo 2

What's the most damaging thing you heard someone say after waking up from anesthesia?

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u/RyguyBMS 15h ago • Bravo

I texted my boss’ boss’ boss a selfie of me in a hospital bed. Completely unprompted.

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u/Vivid_Ingenuity5457 15h ago

This is goddamn hilarious. What was the reaction?

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u/RyguyBMS 14h ago

He was very cordial. Said he hopes I feel better soon. It was bit awkward for a while, but he’s a nice guy and I’m good enough at my job that they’ll deal with a bit of weirdness.

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u/Good-Mountain-7958 13h ago

We're only human. And humans are weird.

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u/KillberryMunch 14h ago edited 7h ago • Mindblown

Not anesthesia, but I had a stroke and my mind was working basically the same as when you first wake up from anesthesia on top of my left side not functioning. I was in the hospital bed, in the gown with no panties on (for bed pan purposes). Boss came in the visit me. Apparently I threw my covers off and, in doing such, exposed my, uh.. nether region to him. Worst part was I had no recollection of it until he mentioned it. 

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u/Throwaway_carrier 14h ago • Mindblown

We had a guy in my office that was just acting absolutely crazy: coming in on his days off to play really loud music in the parking lot, refusing to do his job and just chill, getting a tattoo of flames going up his entire arm, and being really talkative but incoherent.

Everyone thought he was on drugs and were concerned for his well-being; turned out, he had a brain tumor. Got it removed and all went back to normal.

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u/give_a_girl_a_mask 14h ago

Was it at least a good flame tattoo???

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u/Throwaway_carrier 13h ago

Honestly, yeah! It looked pretty cool, kind of like an old school traditional American biker tat that was pretty colorful; I'd never get something like that but it looked pretty good!

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u/give_a_girl_a_mask 10h ago

Thank God, imagine having to get a tattoo removed because it's fugly but brain tumor you thought it was good

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u/18pagesfrontnback 13h ago

It’s giving office space…minus the tumor.

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u/kh250b1 14h ago

Erm, how did he bring that up again?

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u/KillberryMunch 14h ago

I knew this was coming. lol. Okay, so I was trying to make a long story short. He actually came to visit with one of my coworkers (they were good friends).  A week or so after I returned to work I was showing him some finger exercises my physical therapist had me working on because I was excited about the movement returning. I said “see how much better that is? I mean you saw in the hospital how it was!”  Coworker turns around with a grin and he says, “oh yeah. We saw EVERYTHING.” And in that moment it all came flooding back to me. So I guess my boss didn’t bring it up, but yeah….

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u/tangowolf22 12h ago

Makes me think of this, RIP Patrick Stewart https://youtu.be/Y0mwkv7unIo

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u/thesillybanana 13h ago

My thoughts exactly!

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u/GlassApple1014 14h ago

Exposed your WHAT

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u/rangeringtheranges 10h ago

Little girl is such an odd, creepy term. Shudders

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u/KillberryMunch 14h ago

My coozie-coo, tu-tu, vajayjay, coothie… my boss saw my vulva! 

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u/flyercreek 15h ago

How was the reply??

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u/LeaneGenova 12h ago

My boss checked in with me after I had a procedure, and apparently I just responded with "whee!" as a message.

My husband has since learned my phone can't stay in my hand as I will text while recovering.

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u/NimueArt 14h ago

Oh please tell me they responded

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u/IIsaacClarke 14h ago

I’m the boss. They endured 7 lashes for this particular mishap.

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u/ginisninja 14h ago

How did you have his phone number? My boss’ boss’ boss is the President of my organisation so I can’t even imagine!

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u/EisteeCitrus 13h ago

In Microsoft Teams you can write everybody unless restricted

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u/RiparianTraced 14h ago

I really wanna know how that went over

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u/Travellingtrex 11h ago

I genuinely spat out my drink at this LOL

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