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[@adiuntesserande6893]

I want to meet the sister from the first story, as I am also a wheelchair-using EDS patient who does wheelchair fencing!

[@Neptune_Demon]

That sounds epic, one day I hope you both meet each other, that would be wild!

[@solomonkane6442]

What is EDS ?

[@singerwolf1761]

@@solomonkane6442EDS stands for Ehlers-Dahnlos Syndrome. It affects your connective tissues and can cause dislocations, POTS, brain lesions and a million other things because the connective tissue is essentially the glue that holds your body together.

[@adiuntesserande6893]

@@solomonkane6442 Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome. Put incredibly short, it makes us incredibly prone to dislocations.

[@SewardWriter]

I'm a zebra, but a mostly mobile one. Would love to fence. Would love to see you guys fence! 💖

[@sparrowflyaway]

My mum's a medical mystery. Her doctors have said that if they ever figure out what's going on with her, she'll end up in a magazine. She was born with no spleen, a malformed pancreas, a backwards bowel and heart problems. On top of that, one of her blood tests(not sure what exactly they're measuring, just that it's for kidney function) keeps coming back SEVERAL HUNDRED times higher than it should be, but they did a biopsy of her kidney and that's somehow perfectly healthy! She's 68 and has somehow only recently been diagnosed with diabetes(she's quite heavily overweight, so between that and her pancreas it's not at all surprising that she has diabetes. It's more of a surprise that the diabetes took this long to surface.)

[@NiaJustNia]

It sounds like the opposite of a conjoined twin lol. You know the cells divide but don't fully separate and the twins are conjoined? It sounds like your mum's body got halfway through making just her and went "Close enough." 😂 It would be interesting if they could looked at her DNA and sequenced her genome to see if she has any mutations. In early development, your cells are told on (grow and multiply), or off, depending on what copies are received by both parents (this means you could be 73% your dad's genetic markers and 27% your mum, or 50-50, or literally any combination). Maybe whatever dominant copy her body "chose" had missing information or too many "off" signals, and skipped out on growing some organs. Usually if there's a missing portion, the information is taken from the other parent's genetic contribution to fill any gaps, making a baby a mosaic of both their parents DNA. So your mum might've had the most bizarre luck of one copy missing the blueprint for "grow spleen" and the other copy had "off" to spleen cells, so her body just straight up didn't grow one. With the pancreas, one copy could have grow X amount of pancreas, and if the other copy was missing "grow pancreas" or had "off", you'd just get a weird deformed partial pancreas doing its best. If weird clashing "faulty" genes kept happening, it would explain some of the other things too. The most bizarre part is the chances of that even happening are super low, and yet your mum's out here rocking her torso of mysteries.

[@playerone740]

Wow two essays in one comment string!

[@ArgentuTA164-2]

@@NiaJustNiaIt’s even more incredible that she lived 60+ years with it as well. Honestly I wouldn’t be surprised if we have deities in our presence because this level of medical B.S. should not be possible.

[@joecraft9098]

Im sorry, but HOW THE HELL IS SHE EVEN ALIVE AT THIS POINT?

[@lukediehl1210]

My dad is only alive because of a mutation. Years ago, he had a nasty accident on a construction site, resulting in a shattered collarbone and severe concussion. When they x-rayed his head, we learned that his skull is 30% thicker than normal. The doctor said that extra thick skull likely saved his life. A normal man would have had his head cracked wide open.

[@dogofwar6769]

I've taken a _lot_ of injuries over my life, especially when I was a kid. Everything from being shot in the back to being struck by cars on two separate occasions. I've been told that by doctors that I just seem to have unusually dense bones which is why I never really broke any of them during those injuries. Fast forwards to 2013 and I start having issues with reading. Thinking it might be an eye issue I go to an optometrists only to discover that my eyes are perfect, but that I was growing an orange sized *_brain tumor_* in my temporal lobe. Long story short I do (obviously) survive it with only with relatively minor neural dysfunction. But during the surgery my unusually dense bones are so hard to cut through that it broke the bone saw the neurosurgeons were using to open up my skull. My doctors told me family that they had never seen that before.

[@ubahabdi3500]

Are you a mutant? You should join the x-men...

[@jessrh24]

Wow! This was such an interesting read. I wonder if there are any other cases of this. Reminds me a bit of the protagonist from Unbreakable!

[@avatarpan]

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[@Average_Dominos_Employee]

Ive heard of a few cases of bone density being higher, it’s rare, but you’re not alone.

[@awesomeau121]

Bro how did they cut open the skull? Using a lazer?

[@Mocita]

If I had my mother listen to these stories, she’d probably say that a lot of the people had guardian angels looking over them.

[@ang136]

My grandad is the strongest man I've ever seen. He had two heart attacks, he got a heart transplant after the second one, and has diabetes. One or two years ago he started to feel extremely unwell. He went to the hospital to check what was happening. It turns out that he had an infection on his knee that got to his blood and setteled on his kidneys before infecting everything else. The only part that wasn't infected was his heart. The doctors thought that he was going to die because of thne severity of his condition. They even had to cut his neck to intubate him. After five months in the ICU, he came back home fully healed. He might be frail and his skin may be as thin as a sheet of paper, but somehow he's still alive. One of the nurses who tended him happened to be the same nurse who took care of him after the transplant, and she was shocked after knowing that he recovered well.

[@michellecoleman5577]

Wow, my stories aren't nearly as amazing as some in this list but I do feel very lucky. First, I was born via emergency C section because the chord was around my neck and I spent a while in the ventilator. So I already had some asthma issues before I came down with RSV around age 2 or 3. I was one of many children on the ward going downhill fast and the doctors in our area were completely stumped. We were all incredibly lucky when a Japanese doctor, who'd just seen a similar outbreak, just happened to visit our hospital and heard about the RSV children in passing. That coincidence still amazes me.

[@arianebolt1575]

Umbilical cord Musical chord

[@martinamaggio6976]

I had to be born by induction and spent my first 12 days full of wires and tubes in Neo because there wasn't enough amniotic fluid for my mom to carry the pregnancy to term safely Between that and the times I almost died to my baby self preservation skills, I think something up there might have wanted me dead as an infant

[@skoopdewoop]

As a nevadan I can attest that heat stroke is no joke. My teacher, who is an ex-paramedic, talked about the amount of calls he got about tourists who didn't bring enough water, underestimating the 110° and bringing a measly one or two water bottles.

[@fivepainbbles]

My grandma recently had a heatstroke visiting the Grand Canyon, it’s fucking scary

[@karenlloyd945]

I nag my family & friends about this, people always under estimate how much fluid they need. If your urine is not a pale straw colour you are dehydrated!

[@IHaveAFatherButHesAbroad]

​@@fivepainbblesIs she alright?

[@fivepainbbles]

@@IHaveAFatherButHesAbroad yep there were like 50 people around and she got help really quick

[@IHaveAFatherButHesAbroad]

@@fivepainbbles oh, that's great :)

[@alexibeshears7549]

This isn't really a "how are you even alive" story, but more of a "he would have died if you didn't do this" story. So, I was born a preemie and had spent a few days in the hospital, what I assume is standard procedure. On my first night home, my mom laid me on my back in the crib. She noticed that, after a bit, I was having a very hard time breathing. Against standard practice with a newborn at the time, she sat me up, propped up by a pillow, and I slept the whole night like that. She took me back to the hospital in the morning. Turns out, if I had stayed on my back, I would have died. This is how mom found out that I had asthma. For those wondering, people feared that sitting a newborn up would allow them to roll over and suffocate themselves. I don't know what the standard practice with newborns is now, but my mom going against the grain literally saved my life. I owe my life to my mom in more ways than one.

[@stormjin2242]

dad in the first story makes me think of my dad, his dad was very abusive, and multiple times he had to have multiple surgeries to fix severely broken bones, or use a bucket of water to clean the blood off him because the sheets were stuck to him, he has 3 different scars where he had an axe taken to his head, has broken 3 vertebrae in his back, flipped a truck end over end at over 60 mph and jumped out mid flip came skidding to a stop on the gravel road and walked away, while working as a logger for a while he had a tree get pulled on the wrong way and was run through with a half dozen branches, which missed every major organ and only had to be sewn up and given blood before returning to work a couple months later, had both hands crushing in a machine and finished the next 9 hours of his shift by simply wrapping them in some rags and duct tape, experimented with creating hydrogen gas by breaking down water, and blew up the house while inside by lighting a cigarette and walked out with mild burns, and the most recent one, he had a heart attack, and when he got to the hospital find out he actually had 2 back to back heart attacks, got a pacemaker and a month later, because it was trying to force his heart to go back to rhythm, to find out it was the same equivalent of over 50 back to back strokes, and you wouldn't be able to tell any of this by looking at him, he's got a little bit of gut, but he has the muscle capacity of a bodybuilder and still keeps in shape with 50 lbs curls and a 450 lbs squat, i don't understand him, because i get sick if I go outside for too long

[@CatsOverBrats]

The parachute story was actually used in one of the criminal tv shows, although in the show he did it himself knowing the cops would be busy going between his wife and mistress to figure out which one of them would have done it.

[@Devil_Vivian]

Patient story, I’m a female living in the US, I have a few disabilities when learning and trip over almost anything but this story about one of my experiences takes the cake. When I was 6 or 7 I fell off monkey bars, normal sure but when I went to the hospital I ended up having a broken arm, it swelled extremely bad aswell. What I didn’t know was I messed up my back and now have scoliosis. I fell so hard onto my back that I literally created more medical problems beside a broken arm, if I never got an X-ray at an appointment I would have sun a bent up back that I’d probably be dead.

[@Gr1md4rk_Wh1sp3rs]

The ovarian cyst story reminded me of my own. It started growing when I was in school (UK year 10, dunno what grade that is sorry) and grew over a few years at least until I was 18 or 19, where it got to the point that I couldn't eat and any time I relaxed my stomach it felt like my body-wall was ripping open because I was so full. No discomfort, no oddities to my monthly cycle, nothing giving away what was going on even with blood tests. My normal docs thought it was a bowel issue and I'd been on two laxatives for six weeks to try easing the bloating, it didn't help. (obviously, I can't take laxatives anymore without panicking) Went in hospital on a Tuesday or Wednesday because I couldn't take the pain anymore after shopping, stayed over the weekend where it got diagnosed as a cyst (not by ultrasound since the cyst wouldn't let them see it, but a different scan that showed it to the docs), threw up bile since I hadn't eaten anything for multiple days and could barely drink on the Sunday. Had surgery on the Monday and it was 16 litres. I looked to term pregnant. Spend another week in hospital recovering and now have a huge scar from my diaphragm down to my pubic bone. My first and only surgery.

[@sparrowflyaway]

Story 15: I had the same symptom for my own appendicitis! Just a mild stomach cramp that wouldn't go away. It took the doctors a week and a half of testing to even figure it out, because that was literally my only symptom, and they thought that I should've been showing more symptoms than that for appendicitis. I got told off by my mother during the ultrasound because I was fascinated by my own insides on the screen and was pointing things out(my mum thought I sounded too happy and that the doctors would think I wasn't sick after all). The bit I pointed to that I thought looked like a chili pepper was my appendix, it had calcified on one end. I was in surgery the same day. Thankfully I was never in as much danger as OP was. Couldn't use a bedpan comfortably so I was up and using the toilet the day after my surgery, and went home just a couple days later.

[@theviking1359]

I always heard that you could not assign a certain parachute to a certain person that it had to be random. Don’t know if that was because of an incident like this or if it was before that, and the rumor mill created the cheating spouse story.

[@NiaJustNia]

Parachutes are usually randomly assigned, but often the night before. They're kept securely, but if the saboteur is one of the people with access to them, they can still be fairly easily sabotaged and the evidence concealed. There's quite a few cases of it happening, but the perpetrator is almost always caught because of how strict the access is. Unfortunately, that does mean that the attempted murder is usually successful before they're identified.

[@LS-yj7be]

I actually have 2. First is that when I was 16 months old I got a case of chicken pox that my pediatrician called "the worst he'd seen in 20 years of practice." 3 days in and I have to be hospitalized because they can't get me to drink/ swallow anything because my throat is so inflamed. Someone in ER asks my parents about my wheezy breathing, they say I'd been doing that for 2 days and they figured it was because my throat was so inflamed. Nope. It was bilateral pneumonia. Before they can get the pneumonia fully under control I developed scarlet fever. I spent a week in the hospital, but made a full recovery from all of it. Second story is from when I was a teenager, I had to get to a doctor's appointment across town. No one was home to take me, so I decided to ride my bike- a common form of transportation for me at the time. This was long enough ago that bicycle helmets WERE available from specialty bicycle stores, but only the really hard-core cyclists wore them, and none of the kids I knew had one. So I hop on my bike, and on my way I passed a busy park with lots of traffic and a bunch of little kids running around. I was watching for kids darting between cars and in the process had to pull out into the lane to go around cars parked along the road. To be fair, I was going only slightly slower than the posted speed limit for that section of the road. A car came up behind me and hit me hard enough to send me flying 28 feet (the police measured it) through the air where I hit head first into a parked car. I kept trying to get up but someone had enough sense to physically restrain me on the ground until the ambulance got there. I was coherent enough that when the EMTs got there I was able to tell them my name and address, my parents' names, their places of work, and their work phone numbers. Later at the hospital the neurologist is going over the test (X-rays, CT scan, nerve tests, etc.) with my parents and he told them that the only reason I survived that impact at all is because I have a skull of inch-thick granite, pointing to the unusually thick and dense ring on the CT scan, and he had no explanation at all for how I never lost lucidity, much less consciousness.

[@alexismccann9050]

I had a few ovarian cyst one being the size of a grapefruit that completely destroyed one of my ovaries last year, and my surgeon literally had the shocked Pikachu face when I said I didn’t feel a thing (I heard other people are like dying in pain when they get one but I was completely fine), then a few months later they found more, but I’m fine now. (I have the photos too when they did my surgery)

[@FerreTrip]

One of my D&D friends is allergic to pretty much every kind of food you can think of, had to get speech therapy growing up, has fainted multiple times, and is still one of the kindest and most loving people I've ever met in my life. My sister, meanwhile, is a lesser case of this, but more of a "how are you alive" due not to medical issues, but sanity. See, she gets wicked bad migraines. Often. I'm talking on average half the month. How she managed to survive until she _finally_ found something that actually _works_ (she tried _everything_ for a long time), I don't know. All this with PTSD from a shitty life and having to cope with very difficult me.

[@0xEmmy]

0:40 called it! There aren't very many ways to end up with that many seemingly-unrelated health issues. EDS is one of them, though it doesn't always get that extreme. My family is lucky enough that it's mostly an annoyance, though there've been a few close calls (like that time my sister's lung collapsed so much they were impressed that she was alive, let alone able to walk into the urgent care). And the list of complications does absolutely sound random, but it isn't. It just happens that EDS is a connective tissue disease, and there's connective tissue everywhere.

[@britainluver431]

I have a similar story related to Story 7, though it actually took place at the time of the Spanish Flu: my great grandfather (born in Norway, but was living in Utah at the time) had the Spanish Flu during the summer of 1918, about 5 months or so after my great grandparents were married. Luckily my great grandmother never caught it even while helping care for those who did get it. They both lived into their 90s. Never met my great grandfather, since he passed away on August 21, 1992, aged 94 (I was born 2 years, 2 months and 1 day later) but did get to meet my great grandmother (probably around 1995 or 1996), shortly before she passed away on May 21, 1996 at the age of 98, 9 days before her 99th birthday. Sadly never had a photo taken of me with her, but at least I got to see her in life.

[@j.d.4055]

The thing about diseases is they never actually "die". They are simply kept in check with proper hygiene and vaccinations. Any disease that we have "eradicated" can still make a booming comeback if those checks every start to fail. So yeah, vaccinate and wash your hands people. We need to stay the course or learn those lessons all over again.

[@reylann2965]

My dad lives in a small town in Australia. He's the type of man to build most of the structures on the farm himself including his old solar power system. He was cooking a BBQ that he placed in a now so ventilated shed so it could fill with gas. Well he lit the BBQ and was cooking away and everyone heard a massive bang and saw a fireball exiting the shed. My dad walks out patting flames out in his beard looking like hagrid after the dragon burnt his beard. He is very lucky

[@anaya550]

I had a cramping feeling across my whole abdomen, pushed it aside as I have felt worse pain before but still booked a doctors appointment 5 days away. At the doctors office they declared I might have appendicitis as I sort of fit the description but as it had been going for so long, I was sent to the emergency room. After walking into the place, apologising for holding the staff up for presumable nothing, I went an array of tests, scaring a poor ultrasound tech into silence during the process. Turns out I had a cystic mass on my spleen about the size of a mango, it was compressing my stomach, liver, bruised my kidney and was pressing on my intestines as well as some other light damage to other organs. I was 5’2 about 110lbs at the time with 2L inside of the cyst and 800ml just floating around. The head surgeon at the hospital did not know what they were looking at, same with all other doctors there! I only felt pain because it had outgrown its fluid supply and formed a leak. I have surgery on it 1 month later where more cysts and growths were found by accident. I still have the cyst to this day, it’s about 8cm now but I have scared so many radiology staff members because they have never seen anything like this. My diagnosis was Splenic Cystic Lymphangioma, I was an adult at the time too which made my case even more difficult to notice!

[@dragonBishop99]

Tw/ head injury, mention of suicide and necrotic flesh. My dad throught it would be a brilliant idea to balance an entire 14ft walls length of a solid wooden vent box on the top of a ladder, which obviously lost balance and fell. It cracked me in the back of the head, knocked me out and left a goose egg on the top of my head. I suprisingly was still standing, crouched, even after blacking out and stood back up and proceeded to finish the job. Never saw a hospital for that (thanks dad). I still get headaches and always wonder if the bad ones are going to kill me. This is after getting several brown recluse bites that necrotized and one bleed-out suicide attempt. At this point im convinced i can be killed. Im only currently 24

[@sterlingodeaghaidh5086]

As an EMT, one story that sticks out to me was during my clinicals, we had a person come to the ER and was by all accounts acting Ok, all you could tell was he had cool and clamy skin. He was suffering a massive Stemi and was promptly wisked to the ICU

[@dragons_breath.]

Hello! Wishing everyone a good day!

[@name5845]

hi! you have a good day too!

[@ronansmith9148]

My dad complained about a pain in his back, and eventually he went to a doctor. The doctor had him get a scan to check, and sent him to the hospital. He has a rare spinal infection that would have killed him if it spread one way, and paralyzed him if it spread the other way. He still can move, even joining me at a scout camp while he was still in recovery.

[@emilydonut3262]

My Doctor actually gave me permission to tell me my own story because it still baffles her. I am a medical mystery when I was 21 (female) I started my period and I was walking down the hall of my house and I felt really hot and dizzy I sat down but the pain I had didn't ease at all so I called my doctor made an emergency appointment and got there quickly I nearly blacked out as I walked into her office and as I laid down so she could feel my stomach I blacked out completely I woke up in the hospital My Doctor at my side stressing out and when she saw me awake so told me it was a miracle and a mystery on how I didn't feel the hernia on my pelvic area apparently it was so internal I didn't feel the rupture over my period cramps I went home 2 days later from the hospital and now have a small scar on my pelvis

[@abigailpena5950]

I've been a medical mystery for my whole life, one story i have was when i was a little kid and i went a whole month without sleeping, i told the doctor "i cant sleep" he asked "for how long?" And i said "whole June" and he looked dumbfounded. He panicked and got mad at my parents saying extreme things could've happened. Now I know that because of the sleep issues during that time, I wasn't having an imaginary friend chasing me, i was hallucinating. At the park I'd run screaming or laughing and nobody knew why. He told me that going for that long without sleep is dangerous, he asked if i drank soda or coffee or anything with caffeine and i said no. He immediately started me on medication to sleep and had me come in the next day. He was super caring and btw my parents were almost never there in my life, so the extreme neglect could've done something horrible because we didn't know about my sleeping patterns. Thats only the beginning, I've been diagnosed with 15 health conditions and we're getting close to more diagnosis. Im doing a sleep study and maybe we'll find a disorder there too.

[@EgirlKnievel]

Dang I must've missed the original video or it was uploaded a while ago. I think I did tell my story on another medical video but w/e here it is again! I'm one of those "not a doctor but I was that patient". 31 years old, woke up from a burst brain aneurysm. Didn't get to the hospital for a few hours, they tried to write it off as migraines but the friend I had messaged asking to take me to the hospital advocated for me, telling them it's DEFINITELY not normal if I'm asking to go to an actual hospital because she knows I don't do that for just anything, lol. I credit her with what helped save my life for that, honestly. They did some tests, found a massive Sub-arachnoid Hemorrhage and burst aneurysm right between my eyes. Mom and sister flew in from out of state to take care of me. I remember very little of the first 2 of the 3 weeks I was in the ICU. They and my doctor, who happened to be one of the best neurosurgeons in the country by chance, filled me in on how everything that could go bad did. Aneurysm was successfully "coiled" but I had 4 vasospasms that gave me hemorrhagic strokes. I lost all feeling/control in the left side of my body at one point.They had to go in and manually re-open the arteries in my brain and chase down and break up any clots. They told my family to expect me to have to relearn how to speak, walk, and even just sit up. But my conscience started filtering back in. I was passing every neuro-check (wake me every 1-2 hours to check my speech and movement and memory). 22 days after entering the hospital, I was discharged. Able to speak normally with only short-term memory loss. I walked with a cane for a couple weeks but 6 months later when I did a followup with my neurosurgeon I walked in and out fine. The astonishment on his face he had was the same the last time I had seen him and it will stay with me forever. He just kept saying every now and then "you were....so sick". It was really nothing short of a miracle that I not only survived but with no serious disability. Roughly after doing the math, all told, I had about a 13-15% chance of this outcome. And now I have chronic fatigue issues and sometimes a little brain flubbery but I am SO thankful in the end. Thankful for my friend, thankful for my family, and thankful of course for my doctor, nurses, and entire neuro team that made that outcome happen. A lot of people don't know much about aneurysms but they are largely genetic or simply by chance. They say 3% of all people have them, but many people live perfectly normal lives and they never burst or even noticed. They don't discriminate by ethnicity or weight or diet. Pregnant people are the only group more at risk during the 3rd trimester. If you have them in your family, consider getting screened. It's WAY easier to treat and recover from them before they burst, if you beat the 50/50 coin flip of dying before you even make it to the hospital or not. Some are inoperable but imo it's better to know if you need to get your affairs in order sooner than later.

[@kmodo93]

So 2 things. 1) Story 2 of the HALO jumper surviving the fall, actually does parallel the NCIS episode "Hung out to dry" (S1 E2). 2) My own story is my brother's and has kind of repeated itself a few times. He, and my younger sister, were born with a very rare genetic condition (the best estimate I found after a quick Google is literally 1 in a million) he got it worse somehow and was going into congestive heart failure at 6 months old. How has he survived almost to be almost 30 years old? A very stubborn mother who at the point mentioned above against the medical advice of the family doctor, who understandably like everyone else up to that point had no clue what was going on or how to fix it and was willing to give up on the kid, drove to Yale as we lived on the east coast at the time to talk to someone that while I forget what it was they were looking into ended up having to do with genetics and identified the issue. The advice was a special and very expensive baby formula followed by a very strict diet, which he has unfortunately stopped following since he's an adult now. Along that nearly 30-year journey of life, he has needed his head stapled, stitched, or glued on at least 4 occasions, broken his wrist, been stung by a few bees that he's allergic to, eaten mildly poisonous berries, 3 relatively minor car accidents of which only 1 was his fault, an appendix that had looped over his large intestine, a gallbladder clogged with fat, and mild asthma. The only time you can ever see this affect him is for a couple of weeks it takes to recover after a bout of pancreatitis bad enough to put him in the hospital. Pretty much any time he gets blood work done though the doctors look at the levels and have either literally asked the question or had a look that read it just as easily as "How the hell are you even alive?". It'd be funny if it weren't so routine and any of them knew enough to offer a solution but given how rare this condition is it's understandable.

[@Trestin13]

My mother had a stroke, complete artery block, while doing cardio karate(think Tai-bo), and because of that, the blood vessels that were still working stretched over and fed her brain. Doctors after would shake her hand after looking at her MRI, because they only see those on corpses.

[@axelotl5827]

This isn’t as big as most of the stories, but the context behind my family made it a miracle to me. Because of where we live, my family would never visit a doctor. I hadn’t been to one outside of shots until I was an adult and that was after months of dealing with an issue. Most of the time, we would just deal with it and maybe go to my grandma- who was an EMS- and have her fix us up. This is one of the two times someone had been to a hospital while we lived in that town. We were all camping for a family reunion. It was a standard kind, the one we would do every year. The only difference was that year, we had chosen a spot near a lake so we could fish. This lake just so happen to have crawdads in it as well. Even though my brother didn’t catch a single fish, he got one of those and cooked it up. Later, he started to feel really sick. We all expected he probably had a sick crawdad and would have been fine later. That day also just so happen to be the day we would be heading home. Since we were a big family, we were in multiple vehicles, my parents and brother being in one of them. As we were leaving the campgrounds, my brother complained that he was feeling worse. My mom got a really bad feeling and decided to take him to an ER nearby. While everyone else went home, my brother got the news that his appendix was leaking and got flown to the hospital. If he hadn’t made it to the ER that day, he would have died. To this day, I’m still amazed that my mom’s intuition had kicked in at that moment and saved his life. If it weren’t for that, we would have handled it like everything else and I would be short one sibling. He’s married with his own kid now and has yet to die, not for the lack of trying. Despite having a near death experience, the guy is an absolute reckless moron who makes me wonder how he’s even still alive.

[@starchildofthesun]

The first one reminds me of a phrase I once heard. "The human body can survive a lot of things, that we think are impossible." While not always true, that sentence is perfect for that first story.

[@TheEDFLegacy]

I have a few to share, three involving a friend of mine, and four involving my dad. The ones involving my friend happened in the 1990s, while the one that happened to my dad happened much earlier. The three involving my friend involved him helping my dad with various tasks. Two of these happened in my dad's shop. The first incident where he walked away without a scratch was he was in the passenger seat of my dad's pickup truck. My Dad pulled into an intersection without looking and ended up getting T-boned in the passenger side, where my friend was sitting. Thankfully, he wasn't hurt, but it could have been much worse if the other driver was driving faster. The second time my dad nearly killed my friend was a blower attached to a window of his garage. He had it hoisted up on a chain, but didn't have it properly mounted, and it somehow this loss itself, and barely missed my friend as it swang from the rafters. The third time my friend was on the top of a 1.5 story tall forklift that was pushed around like a dolly cart, but had full hydraulics and was operated by a car battery. My dad saw my friend dancing at the top, and he was panicking because he thought he was playing around. Turns out, he had this metal hook that he used to grab light objects off of shelves, and it somehow ground it itself between the forklift and the car battery, and my friend was holding onto the metal of the forklift. My dad knocked the hook off, and he fell off the top of the forklift, and my dad caught him, thank goodness. Miraculously, my friend somehow didn't die despite my dad's best attempts. His lack of caution also applied to his own life, because he told me one time he used to table saw and accidentally cut off most of his finger. Instead of going to the doctors, he told me he ended up literally duct taping his finger back together. Apparently it healed and he never lost any function with that finger. Strangely enough, he's actually a very brilliant person. Extremely good at troubleshooting, excellent at building things, and all that stuff. But he can be a real dummy sometimes. 😂 I'm just grateful that my friends parents never sued my Dad's pants off. 😳

[@kuroi8002]

Im so happy you decided to do a face reveal and now show yourself on videos it's somehow so calming and reassuring to see you reactions

[@Freakz0id]

In case of a part 2: This isn’t exactly a “how are you still alive.” More of a “What the hell are you doing?!” Thing. I worked at a Doggy Daycare. I was about to head out, and was talking to my coworker at the gate to keep the dogs in. Well, I guess my stupid butt shouldn’t have done that, cuz when I stood their, a big yellow lab slammed herself into the back of my leg. She, not intentionally, popped my right kneecap out of its socket. I fell down onto my side, but the cap somehow cracked back into place when I landed. I screamed, not cuz I was in pain, because it was horrific! Then, after a few minutes, my coworkers helped me up, and I hobbled out of the daycare. You might think I went to the hospital right after, but NOPE!! I got a ride to my college class, walked up STAIRS, and went on my day without a second thought. It didn’t hurt throughout the day, until I got up the next morning. I thought, “meh, probably just getting a knee brace,” as I went into the emergency room. I left with crutches, in a wheelchair. My doctor’s asked me why I walk up a flight of stairs, to my class, then to my bus to get back home. I legit told them it didn’t hurt at the time. But now I realize how stupid that was.

[@Kafj302]

Seeing your live reactions while reading the stories, makes this really enjoyable.

[@sawachan321]

My mother had stage 3 ovarian cancer and my grandmother had something to do with her uterus and had it removed I have a feeling I have a condition as well but I’m on birth control which helps me control and ignore it

[@RoseT20]

Back in August of 2020, I had a bad stomach ache, (tmi but) I'm talking it was coming out of both ends, and I couldn't hold any food or drink down, not even water. I thought it was my body being an ass like it does sometimes but fast forward to when I've been in the hospital for several hours and they want to do another pregnancy test on me (mind you, never was pregnant, never will be no thanks) after my mother YELLED at the doctors and nurses to use a drop of blood from the 6 VIALS of it that they took from me and test my blood sugar (she's also diabetic so had a feeling), I was finally diagnosed as diabetic (still don't know if it's type 1 or 2 tbh) and fast forward to like 12 am and the night shift nurse was like "how were you even AWAKE let alone alive during all of this?" then we just proceeded to watch 3 hours of some baking competition show bc my anxiety was through the roof that night.

[@xZeroGunnerx]

This is by far my favorite channel of this kind, mr narrator is great.

[@haplessasshole9615]

Isn't he? He has said he was a theater geek in high school, and it shows. He knows how to *own* the spotlight. He puts a lot of heart and soul (though he doesn't believe in souls) into these vids. He doesn't shy away from politics, and he's either a genuinely sincere person, or the most scarily convincing actor ever.

[@flightless4915]

Ive had a couple medical troubles. Not life-threatening, but still pretty bad. My whole life I have had abdominal cramps that can become extremely severe. Nothing showed up on any tests I took, whether it be blood, ultrasound, etc. Twice when the pain was really bad my parents tried to take me to a hospital, but I wasn’t let in either time. After 12 years, I was finally diagnosed with IBS. So I know what’s happening, but there’s no cure and almost nothing I can do. I avoid painkillers as much as I can because it kills off the gut bacteria I need. The other thing is a problem with my knees and hips. I was born weird and wasn’t able to bend my knees for a month after I was born, and to this day my legs have always been twisted in. A couple years ago, one of my knees swelled up to twice its normal size. It didn’t hurt, but my already limited mobility was restricted even further. I went in for an X-ray and as it turns out, my kneecaps aren’t just pointed in but in the completely wrong spot. The major nerve going through my knee is completely exposed, which is why whenever I kneeled or got hit on one of my knees it was extremely painful. I went to physical therapy and my knee went back to its normal size. However, I cannot straighten my knees fully, still have limited flexibility, and can’t walk properly. I might get surgery in a few years to fix this.

[@Currin4]

To the parachute story and resigning yourself. It’s amazing what a life or death moment does to bring crystal clarity to things. And a calmness that cannot be explained.

[@ChiknBorger]

Love the vids

[@marmot418]

For the military parachute story, the guy that packed them deserved to go to jail

[@thegamingboss3347]

Glad to see (mainly hear) you back Mr. Facts.

[@20RRSCT]

Me at the therapist: Therapist: How u even alive bro Me: idk

[@elenashmeleva192]

Relatable

[@Beemy0s]

me and the sister from the first story would 100% understand each other. I have chronic pain every where and in my all my joints and it also have POTs and im TRYING to get tested or EDS because my mom's friend who's a nurse says that it's probably a good idea. Plus I'm extremely hyper mobile all over and I partially dislocate my shoulders by accident but can also do it on purpose if I wanted to. My legs have also started giving out at random and I've almost randomly collapsed multiple times from that as well as my foot joints feeling loose n stuff. So yeah. The places that do eds testing take for ever to get an appointment with and I don't even know if my mom has made one yet. I also have lots of nerve issues in my hands and stuff too. Oh yeah and I'm only 17 btw- I feel like a 60 year old man with all of my issues sometimes tho lol-

[@paigethedork9693]

25:00 same with one of my sisters, she was born 10 weeks premature, could fit in just one of my dads hands. we had to get clothes from build a bear to clothe her! my mom was having thyroid issues and needed emergency surgery, but the doctors she was with said the pregnancy needed to be terminated, she refused and went to a different hospital for an emergency c section, and then for her own surgery. both are still alive today. the funniest thing about that, is all our birthdays line up because of it, from youngest to oldest.

[@jackbalter4288]

My Dad has multiple myeloma (an incurable blood cancer) and he almost didn’t make it the first time. He got two bone marrow transplants and couldn’t get anymore, however a new generation of cancer fighting medicine called immunotherapy came out in trials just as he was on his last leg. It had a success rate of 81% and he went into total remission ie: no detectable cancer for about 3 years until the WORST possible time: at the start of Covid. Luckily he didn’t get it as he is immunocompromised and would have had a 15% mortality rate and just yesterday he got his third treatment with a new drug which will allow him to be out of the hospital soon.

[@oliverimhoof]

When I was fresh out of high school, I worked under my brother in law at a construction company. I was 1 of the 2 gophers. I was getting $22 per hour to go buy lunch and fetch and put away tools. I regularly fell off ladders and roofs. I once fell 3 stories landing a pallet of wood sheets and walked it off with nothing more than some very uncomfortable soreness the next day. I've always been uncoordinate and overweight, so I quickly got the nickname Squishy.

[@Pippis78]

My ovarian cyst/tumour sister! 😍🙏 Mine was the size of an American football or a little more. But I had to wait for months to even be taken seriously and getting checked up. I didn't get anything other than regular ibuprofen type painkiller - probably because I had a ragged punk style and they thought I would just abuse better painkillers (had never even smoked weed). The last month or weeks, not sure, I barely slept 15mins at a time propped into a halfsitting position (alone in my home). I have a rather high pain tolerance, but this was insane. Only after the operation they were able to rule out cancer. Looking back now, I've realised I got hella traumatised. My doctors were also very excited about my huge tumour in my ovary. Also it had grown quite big before it even started bothering me. Bunch of malpractice suits would have been in place, but just wanted to get it behind me. The actual operation was done very well though. A male surgeon had thought it better to just do full hysterectomy to me, but for the possibility of cancer I got transfered and the female surgeon decided to preserve as much as she could. I should find her to thank for my two children.

[@Kirishima-simp]

I was born with a birth defect where my esophagus was connected to my lungs instead of my stomach. I survived on IV’s for the first 3 days of my life before I had my first surgery to get a feeding tube in my stomach. My doctors had to wait a few months before I could have the surgery to fix my defect. A week before my surgery the doctor asked my parents if they wanted to get me transferred to a different hospital for my surgery. Good thing I didn’t get transferred because for about a week after the surgery when ever a doctor I wasn’t used to would walk into my room my blood pressure would drop. Luckily after about a week it stopped happening. Now I play volleyball, ice skate, and love to paint.

[@martinamaggio6976]

My grandfather recently had blood pressure issues that, along with some other stuff, ended up with my mom and aunt forcing him to go to the hospital for the first time in probably my mom's entire life. Turns out he had a stroke (the kind that's a blocked vein, don't know the name) A few days later, he had some more analysis done, and they found two coin-sized scars on his brain from previous strokes. He's had no issues other than crappy sense of balance before this last one, now he has a weak leg and some trouble speaking, the doctor cannot believe he had three strokes and only had mild-ish sequels

[@sabrinatorgerson888]

Yeah, I'm one of those medical unicorns as well. I have a ton of problems, some diagnosed and other where they have done every test they can think but can't figure out why I have these problems. I scare most doctors and pharmacists (I have some injectable medications I get every three months). It took me forever to find a doctor who would take me seriously. Now that I have that, if I ask for a medical test he orders it on immediately because he knows I'm likely going to be right about the problem the test is for. My first major medical problem was a couple of severely herniated discs. I had the MRI on June 5th of that year, and was on the operating table August 11th of the same year. The one disc was so bad that my neurosurgeon was shocked I wasn't paralyzed already. Yeah, it was a slippery slope from there. Since then I just keep adding to my list of medical conditions. I'm currently severely anemic and they can't figure out why. Even though I'm on the highest dose of iron that can be prescribed, and am not bleeding from any where. So I get to go in for a colonoscopy and gastroscopy to see if they can find any internal bleeding. Not looking forward to that day.

[@alyssabaerne9508]

For me the 2 'how are you alive' stories are about my dad and grandmother, both a different story. My dad, while working at a friend's house to prep for new electric wiring, anglegrinder or something in the ground to put wiring in there. Slips with said grinder, hits his knee pretty badly. He just calls out for the person whose house we were helping remodel asking for a freaking bandaid. Suffice to say that when she came in to hand said bandages, her instant reply was 'nope, i'm drivig you to the hospital now' they were gone for a few hours because with the wound needing stitches and had been instantly cauterized by the grinder blade. Plenty of people who know how casual he can be with injuries at times wondee how he is still alive. The one from my grandmother was when i had a day off from school and she showed up at our place suddenly as a surprise visit for my stepmom, siblings and me. Turned out to also be a surprise visit to the er. She had just finished working out at the gym and casually mentioned she had muscle cramps in her abdomen... in a freaking circlular shape... all day my stepmom instanrly called the hospital and they were told to head there immediately. Turns out that 'muscle cramp' my grandma woke up with that morning was her freaking appendix having ruptured after having gone unnoticed while infected for a while. So yeah, with all of that, even the doctors were baffled that she managed to go anywhere at all that day, let alone a workout at the gym and only show up at the er at 4 in the afternoon after going an entire day with a ruptured appendix.

[@solomonkane6442]

Your grandmother sounds tough like mine

[@cedrolenon]

Docture: How are you even alive! Me: *I always come back!*

[@TomWhite-ew3qi]

In the 2nd to last Wednesday of August in 2011 when I was 8 years old, I had contracted norovirus from a back to school event the previous day. Tmi, but i couldn't hold anything down AT ALL. I went to the bathroom, threw up, and went back to sleep. 5 minutes later, i almost screamed wth because i threw up in my sleep. I got cleaned up and when my mom checked my temperature, it was a stomach churning 107.6 degrees. I was sick in bed the whole day, and the only reason I wasn't taken to the hospital was because there was a bad ecoli outbreak in the area at the time and my parents didn't wanted to risk me getting sick from that was as well. I could barely walk or stand up without feeling dizzy and my vision was full of purple swirls. Late in the day, I knew my fever had gotten higher even though I hadn't checked in again. I then fainted in my bed and woke up the next day COMPLETELY NORMAL, as if nothing happened. TLDR, When I was 8 I had a fever of 107.6 for a whole day, fainted, and then woke up the next day completely healed and better as if nothing happened.

[@jamiehall1460]

So I have this super high pain tolerance and it's gotten me into some issues, I'm not sure how much of these are "How am I even alive" or just "I'm an idiot who needs to think before acting" but they are always fun stories to tell new drs. The first big injury I've had was when I was leading a horse back to untack him after a lesson when I was 10 or so and there was a foal and him mom in a round pen. My horse stopped to watch the foal and I let him, getting distracted by the cute little foal stretching his legs when my horse stepped forwards and right onto my foot. I assume I made a sound but I don't remember and the horse stepped back and off my foot, because of the paddock boots I was wearing as my foot swelled it became painful and my trainer took the horse back while I sat down and pulled off my boot. My mom drove over and picked me up, not wanting me to walk though after I took the boot off it really stopped hurting and we even had dinner before she took me to an urgent care to see if we could get some of the swelling to go down. The urgent care took some x-rays of my foot and while none of the bones in my foot where broken they couldn't see the bones to my little toe. They said that was either from the swelling or possibly they weren't there anymore and gave me the option to have my toe removed since it was to small to really fix. I decided to keep my toe and had to wear a weird shoe for a while just in case there were other hairline fractures they missed due to the swelling. I still have my toe now at 24 but it has no feeling in it and I can't really move it like my other toes (It does still have blood flow, I just find it funny to call it my dead toe since as far as my brain is concerned it's not there). I then broke my arm when I was 13 while I was rollerskating with school. Due to my high pain tolerance, it didn't hurt but felt more like nails on a chalkboard but inside my arm so I knew something was wrong. My teachers however kept trying to tell me it was fine and that it wasn't broken despite the swelling and that I had basically felt my bone break. Surprise, surprise, my mom took me to urgent care and they did some x-rays and it was broken in two places, one was super close to my growth plate too which worried the dr when he saw it. He gave me an option to get pins in my arm or have a nurse readjust the bones as the cast was put on since the bones had drifted slightly in the days between the break and getting the cast since they wanted to wait for the swelling to go down. I chose the seconded option since I was afraid of needles at the time, so while the cast was drying a nurse came in and he squeezed and twisted my arm back into place and it didn't hurt, didn't even feel weird like it did when I broke it. I then accidentally poured scalding hot chocolate down the cast a few days latter, which didn't hurt and I only went to the nurse because I didn't want to cry about spilling the hot chocolate in class. I have burn scars on my other arm from the splash but the school nurse poured cold water down the cast so I didn't get burned on that arm but the cast needed to be replaced. I also had a gallstone that was 4cm big, a single stone, for at least two years since the first time I had symptoms I was living on my own and since I couldn't even leave the bathroom and was just throwing up bile I had to call an ambulance. I figured I either had food poising or it was my appendix since my younger brother just had an appendix scare. I was talking to the dr fine, I think my pain was a 6 or so and he was really dismissive, saying I just had a stomach bug and that it wasn't a big deal. I of course also had to figure out how to get home at three in the morning (luckily one of my teachers was able to drive me home, I was in a small town where there's not a lot of options) and I didn't think much of it since I just passed out for a day and then was fine. I had some similar issues off and on for a while and after moving back with my parents I continued to have some problems but nothing really struck me as terrible until one night last summer when I once again couldn't keep anything down and my parents took me to the ER, I would say my pain was at an 8 at its worse and I sometimes couldn't even stand which is decently unusual for me and I admittedly felt embarrassed I was in so much pain. They did an ultrasound and found the gallstone and I had it removed in August, from what the surgeon told me later my gallbladder wasn't doing so well when he removed it so he figured it hadn't been working properly for a while at that point. I spent about a week recovering from the surgery at home and then jumped back into working as soon as I could after that, even going camping for a weekend on my own merely two weeks post surgery which was fine. I also have chronic issues, mainly hyper mobility which can cause a decent amount of discomfort and I've dislocated my knees more times then I can count. Often once my knee it put back I try to walk on it instantly and it freaks the people out around me. I've also dislocated my ribs in a car crash and didn't do anything about it for a few weeks because I figured I was fine and it wasn't until my mom mentioned how my brother still has neck problems from his whiplash he got from another crash did I think I should get checked out. I also tore the labrum in my hip on a hike and not only continued to hike until I couldn't lift my leg more then a few inches off the ground but then didn't get anything done about it for another few years until I got tired of my hip being sore all the time and wanted to see why. Those are just the ones I ended up at the drs for, I've had more injuries that I've never gotten checked out for and given the shocked and/or horrified expressions I get when I tell a dr my list of problems I've begun to think it's not normal to not feel pain most of the time.

[@senshidoKB]

Story 3- I had a car accident, Landrover Discovery came out a junction without stopping or looking and t-boned my Mitsubishi Lancer writing it off and causing, what I was told at the time was concussion and whiplash, even though as well as my neck my spine in the T and L area were hurting bad, as was my right shoulder. Was during first physio session they discovered my right clavicle was broken so in a sling until it healed. The feeling of concussion lasted for well over 2 months, but would reappear after heavy exercise. 5 years after the accident I start randomly falling, losing sensation in my legs and arms, or parts of at any given time. I went to the doctor, get told its down to my "rough sport" (Kickboxing and Kyokushin Karate), another 3 years of visiting doctors as things were not getting better 1 doctor decided to send me for an MRI. They found herniated and ruptured discs, the ruptured ones had more or less disintegrated with debris getting packed into my spinal cord channel, majority of vertebrae in my neck, 2 in my T section and 3 in lumbar area had over calcified where there had been crush and stress fractures, this again caused severe narrowing of my spinal channel, compressing the cord and also narrowing and pinching nerve roots and channels. The S bend of my neck had been flattened to a straight line and part was acting like pincers and nipping away at the cord causing occasional spinal fluid leaks. I've had several decompression surgeries but because it took so long to get to that point the nerve damage is irreversible. The bone keeps growing and the 12 discs i have left are degraded and getting worse. I'm in constant pain but I can still walk short distances and make the best of what I've got. I know that one fall or another car accident will either paralyse or outright kill me (I hope the latter as I don't want to burden anyone)

[@Bby.Goose03]

Not me but my dad. He has kidney and liver failure and had been having a rough few days. Tired, getting lost in the house and hallucinating. He had just had his cocktail of medicines changed around so originally we assumed it was side effects but one night he was completely out of it and dehydrated, so my grandma and I called an ambulance and went up to the Emergency room. They run some tests and after some time, the Dr comes in, begins explaining the results before letting out a sigh and telling us he had a blood sugar level of a little over THREE THOUSAND and how in his 50 year long career he had never seen a level that high. He was brought to a larger hospital that night where he stayed for around 2 weeks to get that (and among other things) under control.

[@galaxiadraconian7097]

Due to some genetics of mine, my body can survive the cold really really well but gets overheated really really quickly (for example me and my dad were skiing and it got up to the forties (farenhight due to being in America at that time, but it was around 15 celsius if I remember right) and I had to get rid of my jacket and undercoat because I was suffering from heat exhaustion because of my genetics, working out, and my clothes being designed to retain heat. The on-site medics were so baffled that they couldn't even figure out what was wrong with me until I finally got my ski gear off (it protected my face so well I could barely talk most of the time, I could breathe fine tho) and explained my symptoms as well as some of my history. I never really knew why this was the case until my primary doctor explained the genetics part and now I know why I was always the kid who had to go in from PE due to overheating or why I was able to get away with wearing nothing but a light hoodie and shorts when it got super cold/rainy out back then

[@isabellabaird8034]

Last year, when I was 15, I was in an ATV accident that left me with a concussion, a broken pinky, carpel tunnel damage in my right hand, compartment syndrome in my right arm (still not fully healed), I had a two inch gash in the side of my right hand plus narcotic tissue on the back of my right hand that ended up eating away at my tissue until it reached the top tendons and my veins, and finally I had a torn tendon in my right shoulder and my right wrist. I was with my cousin during the crash, but she was completely fine. A few bruises, but nothing major like I had. I’ve been through two surgeries and I’ve regained full function of my right hand, but unfortunately my pinky willl never be fully functional and is stuck at an angle. Unless they go in and medically break it again, nothing can be done

[@oliverkirkland9332]

That last story, about the rotting gallbladder? Got another one for you. Almost exactly two months ago, it was maybe noon? I started getting nauseous & constipated. Didn't think much of it, so I decided I'd just eat a couple crackers & lay down for a nap. Within half an hour, I shot up and had to vomit. Whatever, lets try eating in a couple hours, so nap time (again) -- but I couldn't fall asleep; I felt like I wasn't quite burning up, but I was uncomfortably warm. Whatever, it's late June, it's _hot_ out, so no wonder I was too warm to fall asleep; just gotta turn aircon onnnnnn it's already on? Yet I was overheating? Guess the aircon needs to be repaired, whatever. I decided to lay down & just fake being asleep, cause it's better than nothing. Must have fell asleep at some point, though, because I wake up at three AM, wonder wtf happened, and went back to sleep. My phone wakes me up at 9 AM, six hours later, and I realized I had, in fact, slept from noon yesterday to 9 AM today. I'm not even hungry, but I know I need to eat, so I try eating crackers again. Vomited within half an hour again. I was too sleepy to really worry about that, so I shrugged it off and took yet another "nap." I still live with my parents, so at this point dad knocks on my door & asks if I'm okay. My head's too fuzzy to really understand anything was wrong, so I said "yeah, just tired and nauseous. I'll be fine tomorrow." I sleep until 10PM, wake up, get some water, & head back to bed -- but within five minutes I was puking violently. I rinse my mouth out, then drink a little more water -- puked within two minutes. By now, I knew something was wrong, because it's been more than 24 hours since I've held any food down, and now I can't even try to keep water down -- but it was hard to be worried, I was just so tired, & fell asleep on the rug in the bathroom. Woke up some time later (didn't have a clock in the bathroom & didn't even think to check my phone), took a sip of water, puked again. Now I was in intense pain, wrapping from my front to my back, spanning from just under my ribs to all the way up my right shoulder blade. By now, my puking (& now, crying) has caught my dad's attention and he comes running in. I told him that I couldn't hold down water & my back hurt. Dad tries to rub my back & I scream from pain. I beg him to take me to Urgent Care, and he tells me that he'll take me first thing in the morning, as they were closed for the night. It's now the third day, and I do *not* feel good at all, and dad took me to Urgent Care like he said he would. Doc said that it might be my gallbladder, takes some blood, writes me a prescription for anti-nausea meds, and sends me home. She told me that she'll call me with the results of my labs, but those won't be available until tomorrow morning, so if I can't hold down water with the meds, I should go straight to the ER. Thanks to the meds, I _was_ able to hold down water (All Hail Zofran), so I just slept the rest of the day away. Day FOUR, and the doc calls back around noon. Says I should go to the ER, won't explain why. Dad drives me there, and on the way I'm looking up my test results online (as it really only occurred to me that I could do that once we were in the car). Turns out, my neutrophil (the white blood cell that kills bacteria) and monocyte (the white blood cell that eats pathogens & dead tissue) counts were both _NEARLY FOUR TIMES_ their normal values. That is Not Good, if you were wondering. I get checked into the ER, get called back within minutes (that is a Bad Sign, by the way). Hooked up to IV, immediately feel a lot better, but still have pain. Radiologist does an ultrasound, which hurt like Zeus or God any deity decided to electrocute every nerve in my body. I'm told I need emergency surgery & very quickly admitted to the hospital proper. I'm then told that the surgical team is tied up with a difficult transplant, and they don't know if they'll be able to fit me in today (odd, considering I was told I needed _emergency_ surgery, but okay), so I'll have to stay overnight. DAY FIVE, and I'm the priority surgery that morning. (It should be noted that I STILL HAVEN'T EATEN, let alone taken a shit, since the morning of day one.) I go in, get surgery, come out, and I'm 100% better. I'm actually starving, where before I had no interest in food. I'm eating and holding food down WITHOUT Zofran. Water? Piece of cake. I'm released same day. About a week later, I get the report from histology. Apparently, every last symptom was due to my gallbladder _rotting inside my body._ If left for even another day, it probably would have ruptured like OP's did. Turns out, I've had gallstones for at least a decade, if not longer (likely _two_ decades, according to my mom's descriptions of related symptoms cropping up when I was younger), and the stones rubbing against the gallbladder caused scars to build up. Eventually, the scarring cut off its own blood supply, leading to my gallbladder dying & rotting. So my gallbladder. Was _rotting_ inside my body. For at _least_ four and a half days. Maybe more. And yet it still _could have been worse,_ as OP has illustrated for me. And yet in three days I was back to 100%. 2 weeks total for the scars to heal. God bless modern medicine.

[@SaintJoi]

I am diabetic and very sensitive to heat. I'd just had a root canal and was on an antibiotic known to cause nausea, when a heat wave hit my town. Hardly anyone here has A/C. I started vomiting on Saturday night and chalked it up to the antibiotic. Sunday morning, I was barfing every 15 minutes and told my husband I needed to go to the ER because everything just felt wrong. I couldn't even keep water down. We got to the ER where I continued vomiting. After a quick triage, they wheeled me back to a room, stuck an IV in each arm, and began administering insulin and fluids. I was barely conscious at this point. Turns out that the combo of high blood sugar, nausea, and heat had sent me into severe dehydration and ketoacidosis. It took five days in the hospital to get me well enough to leave. I'm ok now, and I drink a lot more water. There's a note in my medical file to never ever give me that antibiotic again.

[@calx7295]

These people are legends!

[@lbolen4304]

Man I remember when i had strep throat once- I thought the saying “to weak to hold a spoon” was a exaggeration until that happened to me. My dad said hed have to check if I was alive when I fell asleep because if how still I was lol-

[@lynneconklin917]

When I was about a year old, my father was hit by machinery (dump truck, grader, back hoe....something big) at work. It ran over him, his head and he's alive because a) it was soft soil and wet, so he sank, disbursing some of impact/weight. And b) because when it went over his head, his head fit between the tread of the tires. He suffered 100+ fractures, including his skull. Lost like 2 inches in one of his legs, because the bone was crushed and there was no way to fix that. He had permanent partial hearing loss in left ear, and a cool scar snaking from the back of his neck up behind that left ear and onto his forehead. He spent quite a long time in traction - a lot of my baby pictures are of me sitting on his chest on a hospital bed, with traction ars clearly visible. He obviously healed over time. Now's the time that I'll say I have 2 younger brothers (so apparently all that healed too) and while he passed in 2013, he retired after at least 25 years working for a gas utility company on a street crew, ya know digging up old lines, fixing leaks, etc in all sorts of weather; as well as spending free time on outdoor activities like camping, hunting, and fishing, and helping friends do home repairs.

[@thrashersk83r]

Before being diagnosed with type one diabetes, I had got sick with the flu. Not knowing what was going on, I could only take in smoothies and smoke cigarettes. After the 5th day of absolutely no energy and having my parents hold me up to piss. They finally called an ambulance. I blacked out there, to wake up from a 2 or 3 day induced coma. Come to find out I had diabetes and my blood sugar was over 2100. The second highest the dr had ever heard of. I’ve now got control on my diabetes and living healthy. Definitely a scary experience coming that close to death.

[@hexidimentional]

i lived for over a year with a blood pressure of somewhere around 260/175, i was diagnosed after my second trip to the er complaining of a headache

[@Boop__Doop]

My grandpa has i think some sort of lukemia. His cancer makes his white bloodcells are slowly killing him. The avarage human is supposed to have around 4,000-11,000 white bloodcells per microliter My grandpa had 360,000 per microliter and my grandpa's doctor just looked at him and told him "you should be dead several times over so lets talk about sports." Another detail is that he got diagnosed in his 30s and the doctors said best case senario he will make it to 40 and just barely at that, He is 77 had covid a few years ago and just had a heart attack and survived a volcano in 1973, im pretty sure he is imortal. Another story is about my great grandpa who wouldve been 100 a few months ago, he got a brain aneurysm while on a boat in his 20s. He went to a specialist in denmark for a brain surgery (it was iceland like the 40s or 50s so he needed to go to denmark) and they accidentaly cut into his optic nerve and paralysed his left side, while most people would lie down and give up he called up his invention buddy and they came up with a machine attached to his car to make ropes for ships out of nets and the madlad made enough money to sustain from that. He also still loved ships and fast cars and went to dwalerships when he could. One funny story about that is when he went to a dealership to feel the cars when a salesman comes up to him and asks "can i help you with anything" my great grandpa having a good sense of humour said to him "yeah can i have a test drive this car" and the salesman looking at this very blind person with a cane and sunglasses just stood there speachless. He was amazing, or so I've been told since he died when i was 1yo in 2007. Also another great great grandpa i had. His wife died from getting crushed under a truck. And he was going in a plane to the capital to sue the company that owned the truck. He boarded the plane and proceeded to be in one of the deadliest air dissasters in the countries history. He died on impact and nothing was found of the plane. My grandma also had to go in for a surgery for her leg and they accidentally cut into a nerve so she wouldn't be able to walk without a cane and now about a year later she can walk unassisted which she credits to daily walk and exercise. she is 76. And I have so many stories for myself 1. a strong gust of wind threw me about 50 meters down the street in a stroller and by all accounts I should be dead, in a coma, or have some learning disability, but I'm healthy. 2. My mom had to be on drugs for kidney stones when I was very young and still breastfeeding and the doctor said the drugs physically couldn't travel through her into me (the doctor was wrong) and I should again have some disability. 3 I once jumped down the last few steps of a stair and hit the roof then hit the corner of a stair and I should've been out from that or bleeding out or left with brain damage or at least an injury but I lay there for a second, told my mom about what happened and stood up and went on with my day. 4. A car hit me at probably 30kph while I was going 30kph on an E bike and I should've received again some concussion or some kind of damage or at least a broken bone but no again I was left with some wounds where my skin got scraped of but besides that they let me Walk out of the hospital and I got insurance from my friends bike (he is a millionaire and genuenly didn't give a shit.). 5. A large shelf crushed me as a kid leaving me with no injury. 6. I asked some kids to push me in a cart down a road and I fell due to a pebble and came home with a massive hole in my head. 7. I have stuck a knife in a toaster on 3 occasions because the toast was stuck and all 3 times I used the one knife with a plastic handle.

[@TranslucentGanon]

I have a story like this. When I was 4 I was diagnosed with type one diabetes with my ketones being 11, bg of 1100, A1C of 12.8, with tons of proteins leaking in my urine. No doctor knows I was normally functioning without major eye issues or kidney failure let alone conscious let alone alive. I am currently fine with no complications other than depression (very common among type one diabetics)

[@thisisntevenmyfinalform6814]

Mine sounds more spectacular than it actually is: I am allergic to water. When I'm in contact with water I break out in hives starting aty torso and slowly spreading out. The speed and severity depends on the temperature with lower temps giving less extreme symptoms. The hives can itch really badly so I have to limit contact with water like showers as well as avoid sweating too much as that can trigger it too. I don't have any issue ingesting water however so it's perfectly livable, just annoying. With that being said I do want to note that I am technically self diagnosed. I had gone to my doctor with these issues for several years without result and he refuses to check me for the allergy despite having all the classic symptoms because "it's too rare, it's impossible for you to have it" I haven't pursued diagnosis either as treatment is practically nonexistent so it wouldn't help me much anyway.

[@Larpdiceandminecraft]

My dad: rolled a tack oil truck at 20 years old (oil used in asphalt road construction). Walked away with a few scratches. crushed his lower left leg with a concrete pipe that weighed approximately 900 pounds (only ended up with a tib fib fracture) when I was 3 years old. Got a 7”x 8”x 4” solid chunk of rose quartz stuck in the pivot point of a track-hoe and had it shoot out go through the windshield, and hit his shoulder by sheer luck because it was coming towards his head, ended up with a gnarly bruise and that rock is currently the doorstop at my childhood home. He was driving to work at 5 am in a Chevy C10. He hit a group of deer. Proceeded to roll down into a ravine, got ejected out of the truck into a pile of dirt that the truck just churned up. He survived with minor cuts and bruises. We found out he had a minor stroke when I was 18 after the both of us were in an accident. We had no idea until we went to the hospital and they found the remnants of said stroke, the stroke wasn’t the cause of the wreck, we tboned a drunk driver on the way to my grandmother’s house on Mother’s Day. I swear my dad’s guardian angel probably has a drinking problem by now just from the stress.

[@RebekkaLong]

I once had scarlet fever! I honestly hardly remember it, mainly due to the high fever. The one part of it I remember was that I had to take an oatmeal bath for the rash. I hated it.

[@roguewolf9175]

I had to have neck surgery while in the military to fix a herniated disc. Because of a history of waking up during previous surgeries, they were paying special attention to my anesthesia. After beginning to wake up again while in the middle of the surgery, it ended up taking nearly a hour to get me back down. While in the recovery room, they had to get my Mom to come back and help get me under control because I had woken up, divided I felt completely fine, and I was ready to go home. They had 3 male orderlies my size, (6'4", 270lbs) who were trying and failing to get me back in bed despite having just come out of anesthesia. They later did some lab work and I'll never forget the look on the doctor's face as he read the levels of my adrenaline. He called a couple other doctors and a couple of lab techs and spoke away from me before coming over and telling me that they had absolutely no clue how I was still alive. Apparently, my adrenaline levels are between 5-7 times normal levels and are actually almost twice as high as what is considered lethal levels for normal adults. There is no indication of any kind of disease and their conclusion was that I was born this way. It has also explained why most pain medications, anesthesia, and alcohol has almost no effect on me at all.

[@TeddyLovesAxl]

Have I been missing something? Bc I love seeing you read these!!! It makes it 10Xs better! Definitely a cutie patootie!🫶🏻❤😊

[@stevenbalkovec1669]

Story 16: I was born 3 months early, not sure why. Doctors gave me a 5% chance or survival. I'm now 30 and mostly healthy.

[@TerabyteAIX]

God, this reminds me of my father. Back in 2015 he was doing a checkup with doctors and they ran some tests on him. That's when he got diagnosed with diabetes, heart failure, and he realized he had a reduced lung capacity. His blood sugar was so high that he actually BROKE the meter, which had a limit of I think 900. His heart was also going ridiculously fast, and they realized that his lungs were basically in a calcium shell. The cause of all this? H1N1 Swine flu, back in 2009. The virus attacked his organs, causing his pancreas to fail and damaging his heart and lungs. He's had doctors actually ask how he was still alive and his medical record could rival War and Peace in thickness alone. He's still alive and kicking to this day and all his health issues are under control thanks to him being on a concoction of medications.

[@DenentiaGames]

Ok wow also first

[@TeddyLovesAxl]

You are 💯1st 🏆🫱🏻‍🫲🏼

[@kellyhanson140]

my highest recorded blood pressure when i had preeclampsia was 190/100 and they couldn't get it to come down. had an emergent csection and was on magnesium for a while afterwards.

[@strike_shot816]

One time my dad was spinning his brother around in the basement when they were kids and his brother’s head hit a nail sticking out of the wall and he just calmly walked upstairs and told my grandma we need to go to the ER. My dad’s going other brother was standing on the side of the bathtub when he was a kid and he slipped his head hit the corner of the sink and he busted his head open but he’s not dead. When I was 2 we had a table with very sharp corners. I was walking near it tripped and busted my head open on the corner and I apparently just kept walking to the toys I was trying to get to.

[@SarutaValentine]

So I was born missing two chambers (1 half) of my heart. Through my life I have developed liver cirrhosis (because of my heart), I have asthma, damage to my lungs and my kidneys. When I was 17 I was running a high fever and was taken to the ER and then the ICU. Turns out I had influenza A, was in complete shock, was in the middle of systemic failure (where every organ in your body shuts down at the same time), in addition to having pneumonia and a collapsed lung. Add that onto scarring and damage that was already there in addition to my heart already having to work twice what it should and I don’t know how the hell I survived. I’m 28 now and grateful to be alive

[@marinsimeonov2315]

This is a recent story - my dad is a car mechanic. His car jack snapped while he was under the car and he had a 1ton vehicle fall right on top of him. He survived with just a few bruises on his ribs and his wind taken out. He's almost 60 btw.

[@laceyramirez5603]

When i was in 4th grade my mom had started getting stomach pains she thought that it was just a bad stomach bug, called off work, took some advil and tried to sleep it off. A few days later the pain had only gotten worse. If i remember correctly my mom was in so much pain that my dad, I think, called the doctors and they told him to take her to the hospital immediately. By time that they had gotten to the hospital my mom's appendix had bursted, and had she gotten there a minute later she would have died. They ended up having to take out part of her colon, intestines, and parts of some other of the organs in order to get all all of the toxins i think. Idk i was 9/10 years old when this happened and was explained to me. Thankfully the only lasting effect is that she became lactose intolerant, probably because that had to take out whatever it is that produces the enzymes that breaks down lactose

[@cadillacdeville5828]

Hey Mr. Mainly Facts 😊

[@Tomsonic41]

I'm kinda the "how are you even alive" patient. In 2003 I had severe anaemia; my blood level was so low and if I hadn't received treatment, I would have died. Later on in 2014 I was diagnosed with severe heart failure - then had a stroke AND a heart attack in rapid succession! I suppose I'm lucky to still be alive after all that.

[@breeinatree4811]

When I was pregnant and was feeling a bit dizzy. I went in for a check up. The nurse tried to take my blood pressure and couldn't find it. My doctor tried and he couldn't find it either. I was taken to the ER and no one could pick up my blood pressure. One of the doctors looked at me and asked if I was still alive. They never figured out why my blood pressure was that low. Turns out that my blood pressure is always lower than normal. 76/42 is my normal blood pressure.

[@mrnonsense1031]

The dad in that first story didn't cheat death, he won fair and square.

[@nonai7897]

Im always severly anemic and I had three doctors wonder how Im even functioning/standing (or how Im alive, not sure bc I always fading in and out when people talk)

[@stoneforest2639]

0:56 I swear, my mom has a similar story. She fell of a hay bailer onto her head, and LITERALLY BROKE HER NECK, She just went home and said nothing. She has a fused vertebrae and sometimes her hands go numb and tingly from the spinal cord being messed with. My mom scares me sometime with how weirdly resilient she is.

[@rin-cp2mj]

Idk how my granddad is alive at this point. He had blood sodium level of 87 mmol/l when anything under 136 is hyponatremia and 110 is the emergency cutoff. None of us even realised anything was wrong because he was acting normal until he caught the virus and went to the clinic to get tested.

[@arctistarfox]

I have two childhood friends. They’re twins, born a couple months after me. I’m not entirely certain of all the details, but apparently one of the twins was hogging all of the nutrients from her sister. As a result, when they were born one of the two was so small her father’s wedding ring could fit all the way up her *leg*. (Although, her father is a tall and lanky guy, but that’s still scary!) She had to stay several weeks in the neonatal unit due to health issues and during her childhood she had trouble gaining weight (mostly because she’s stubborn as a mule). Her family held parties when she hit certain weight milestones. But she never let her height stop her. I recall when we were thirteen she could easily lift my weight (I never wanted her too because she could hurt herself). I wasn’t overweight, but I was still quite a bit heavier than she was. Both twins are fine now. We’re all college-age. One is studying business in San Diego, and the smaller twin is studying robotics in Santa Cruz.

[@ryanhoule4415]

My Grandfather was what you would call a “Functional Alcoholic.” One time he got so sloshed that he fell and broke his hip. No one would have known he fell had his cleaning lady come in and call an ambulance but it had to have been hours. When he got to the hospital, his BAC was *STILL* .15, meaning that it was originally at the .3 -.4 range. The doctor was flummoxed by how he had not died due to alcohol poisoning. The only positive thing was all that booze had numbed him from the pain he was in from his broken hip.

[@altounedited3]

Allie from Terrifier 2… the many times I (as well as others that’s seen it) was like “HOW TF IS SHE STILL ALIVE??” Like shawty got worse than the girl from the first Terrifier

[@opalglass8101]

I got heat stroke when I was like 2 yrs old. Was stuck between Mom and Dad in a truck with no AC in California and ended up soiling my bed at the hotel (sorry hotel cleaning people). I now can't be in the heat for too long, which is made worse by the fact I always feel warmer than a normal person, even though the docs say I'm in the normal range. But I'm hot, as in noticably warmer than a normal person because my friends growing up would always come for hugs in order to warm up. It's frustrating that I can't handle the heat, because I need to do yard work, and my brother is suffering from COVID complications so he can't feel that niche. And mom can be on her feet 'cuz of charcot's foot... smh we're a mess.

[@TheWatermelonSquad1000]

I remember I was recently pulled under water by a friend who didn’t know I can’t swim. I actually fell over and somehow got up in around 3 seconds. My vision was tinted light blue and watery until I got a towel.

[@kitsunekrisandfriends]

This video actually made me think of a story well kind of you see my uncle he was in the Marines or something I don't know but he was in the army if I'm not wrong and if I'm not wrong to he's also had symptoms of two different types of cancers now and I'm surprised he's still alive also speaking of this one of the other stories that brought up cancer and cancer treatment actually made me think of one of my teachers since she finished her cancer treatment earlier this year

[@savannahwright4879]

My story is to do with type 1 diabetes as well, so I was been sick for 2 days I even went to the Dr's the day before and they refused to take my blood as I appeared too ill, the morning after the Dr's visit I was no joke throwing up every 2 minutes, I rang the Dr's and they said check your ketones, so I did the pee test and the strip instantly turned black it's supposed to be a light tan colour, they then told me to visit the hospital right away when actually I should have been calling an ambulance, my mum came over to take me to the ER, she called me when she was outside the house but I couldn't move off the floor! She helped me to the car and off we went, got to the ER, while waiting to be checked over I started vomiting blood, they took me in to check my blood pressure and that's when I was whizzed round as fast as possible to resus! My blood pressure was so high that they where surprised I was still barely talking, from then on they where treating me with all sorts, they even sedated me, I woke up a few hours later where my mum explained that they where gonna move me to ICU! The Dr's told my mum if I left it any longer I would have been dead, they where surprised I wasn't even in a coma 😂

[@BundasaurusPecs]

The pronunciation of ‘Toyota Celica’ is killing me 💀💀, great video as always :))