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A real-life nightmare. It sounds like something straight out of a horror movie: A woman goes in for surgery, only to wake up — paralyzed and unable to move — right before the doctor makes his first incision. But this is exactly what happened to Donna Penner when she went in for an exploratory laparoscopy in 2008, and she's decided to share her story in order to raise awareness of this horrifying possibility for others. As she writes in an essay for  BBC , Penner had been experiencing unusually heavy periods at the age of 44, and went in for the surgery in order to make sure everything was OK. As she explains, the surgery required three to four small incisions in the abdomen, which the surgeon would then push instruments through in order to "look around." While the operation started off fine, it wasn't long before things took an absolutely terrifying turn. After getting getting prepped for the surgery, an anesthesiologist gave her an intravenous drip then told her