Woman Quietly Records Her Surgery. When She Hears the Doctors’ Conversation, She Goes Pale.

Then she set it to record just before the nurses wheeled her into the operating room. It was reckless, maybe even illegal, but she couldn’t help herself. A deep, unshakable part of her needed to know what went on when she wasn’t conscious to witness it.

Hours later, Jennifer awoke groggy and sore in the recovery room, her mind a foggy blur from the anesthesia. The nurses told her the surgery had gone well—her appendix had been removed, and all she needed now was rest.