Woman ‘Hurt’ After Husband Wakes Up from Surgery and Looks at Her ‘with Disgust’

A woman on Reddit wondered if she was overreacting after her husband’s first moments post-surgery upset her more than she expected.

In her post, she explained that her husband recently underwent a minor outpatient procedure — nothing life-threatening or especially serious. Before he was admitted, the two of them laughed about those viral clips of people waking up from anesthesia and looking instantly smitten when they spot their spouses.

With that in mind, she decided to record him as he came to. But what she captured wasn’t the sweet moment she anticipated.

At first, she said, he couldn’t remember who she was. Then, when he asked and she replied that she was his wife, his expression shifted in a way that stunned her.

“His lip curled and he had a look of utter disgust on his face. He even said ‘ugh,’” she wrote. “I stopped recording and just sat in silence while he went in and out for a while.”

Once they got home, she said she locked herself in the bathroom and cried, spiraling into doubts about their relationship. She couldn’t stop wondering if the reaction reflected something deeper.

“Is that how he really feels? Is he disgusted with me? Is he showing his true feelings?” she asked, adding that she was now questioning everything between them. “Did he settle for me? I am so hurt at this thought.”

She ended her post by saying he later asked to see the video, but she lied and told him she’d forgotten to record it.

In the comments, many users reassured her that unsettling reactions like his are common as anesthesia wears off — and rarely mean what they look like in the moment.

“For every rainbow and unicorn video, there are 150 moments like this,” one commenter wrote. “Anesthesia is absolutely wild and his wake-up response has nothing to do with how much he adores you.”

Another added that if he truly harbored negative feelings, he likely wouldn’t have encouraged her to film him in the first place. They suggested the look of disgust and the “ugh” may have been unrelated — possibly just nausea or discomfort from the anesthesia coming out at the wrong time.