A woman who went for routine surgery claims she woke up with an extra organ missing.
Bella, 23, checked in for an operation earlier this year to treat her endometriosis, a painful condition that causes tissue similar to uterine lining to grow outside of the uterus.
WHAT REALLY HAPPENED
Diagnosed with a moderate form of the condition, Bella had grown used to severe pain and procedures to remove cysts that form from the tissue.
But when she woke up from surgery, doctors told her that they didn’t stop at removing the growths.
Bella said: ‘You know what’s crazy? I had endometriosis surgery, right, and I woke up and they said, “Hey, we took your appendix.”‘
While doctors assured her the disease had not spread to her appendix, they removed it as a precaution so appendicitis could be ruled out if she has further pelvic pain.
In a TikTok video posted last week, which has gotten 500,000 views, Bella said: ‘So you took my whole-a** organ that was healthy and totally normal just so that someone will believe me in the future?’
Bella is far from the only patient to come out of surgery missing an organ that wasn’t meant to be removed.
