Doctors, What's Your "This Just Got Even Worse" Moment?
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DNR means nothing once you’re unresponsive? THAT IS LITERALLY THE POINT! What a stupid legal system
Depends on country but yeah some countries have laws which mean DNR's mean shit unless ur willing to have expensive lawyer enforce it
@@Freedomcustom Time to move to countries that allow DNR's... I have my Advanced Directive paperwork done, I keep copies everywhere (car, house, USB on neck, etc.) The most important line on the AD says "If any person goes against my AD, you better RUN"
I worked in a hospital, I saw so many disgusting things done to patients. I had one that as LITERALLY skin and bones, and had IV's on every possible vein.. They had IV's in the arch of the foot... All because half of the family was fighting for him to live and the other half didn't want him to suffer...
And nobody is held accountable for ignoring DNRs. This behaviour should send people to prison.
@@Freedomcustom Then you better emigrate if you can.
@@TheNinnyfee i'm ok where i live
Best reddit advice ever:
'If it hurts or stinks, take it to a Doctor'.
*has no sense of smell* Well shit
@@oldmanbob2094 Just wave it in front of your coworkers faces. If they gag or vomit, it likely smells bad lol
@@dennymambo How do I know I'm just not ugly?
@@oldmanbob2094 because I know everything.
This is not tragic like the others, nor am I a doctor, but gonna share anyway because.
We’ve got a beautiful 8yr old cat who we notice is steadily eating less and less of her wet food. No other symptoms, her attitude is bright and chirpy. But we take to the vet because cats have to eat. We’re expecting to be sent home with news that everything’s normal, and some appetite stimulants.
Renal failure.😞
I’m beside myself. We take to an overnight ER for iv fluids to see if we can perk her up before starting SQ fluids. Get a call from ER vet. Rechecked her blood and her kidneys are actually much better.
She needs a blood transfusion.
I’m sorry, what??😳
Her protein and red cell count is ridiculously low. She’s going to die if she doesn’t get this. Oh, and we don’t have cat blood. Gotta drive an hour away to take her to another ER.
We do. New ER doc does exam.
Did she get sq fluids? No? Because under her skin is filled with liquid.
She’s also in heart failure.
😓
Okay, so, at this point, the humane thing is to put her down. She’s dying. But vet says, honestly, though, she’s doing great. She’s chirping at all the techs that walk by, she’s bright and alert. Let’s hold off and monitor then see what a specialist might say.
So, long story long, we give her a chance. She doesn’t appear to be suffering. She’s cheerful. It’s like she doesn’t know she’s sick. But we label her DNR anyway. If she’s trying to die, we won’t stop it. 😞
But we’ll try one last time. I spend the night in my car in the parking lot.
Next morning. The fluid was her veins leaking protein?? No one knows what this is. We run infectious disease tests, ultrasound, she’s not been in anything toxic, she’s strictly indoor only. No heartworms, no GI parasites, no traumatic injuries. No injuries period. Her blood loss is something you see in a pet run over by a car. Majorly bad.
They think it’s Primary Thrombocytopenia, but you only see that in dogs. 🤯
Another specialist.
Fuck it, 🤷 we’ve ruled out cancer, we’re out of tests that make sense.
Let’s throw some meds and a renal diet just for shits and giggles at her and see what happens. Prednisolone and hypertension meds and the C/D diet and she’s being back to happy and sassy and mean.
Kidneys are normal, blood is much better. Platelets almost normal in size. No more saggy blood juice skin.🥳🥰🤗
Subsequent recks commence.
We actually do ANOTHER reck this Friday to see if she can get off the pred. My husband and I are taking lots of extra hours to pay this off. He’s in law enforcement, I’m a private teacher. We ain’t rich, but it’s worth it. She wasn’t ready to give up, so we couldn’t either.
🥰if you read this boring shit, I hope you’re having a beautiful life.💕
Yep...with every test listed, I was thinking, “Oh no, they’ll have to take out a second mortgage!” 😓
Still glad she made it! Good luck!
Thank you for taking care of your kitty. I hope things are better now.
Please give an update on the appointment
Hope your baby is still doing well ❤
That sure was a fucking roller coaster from start to finish.
That poor cat!
imaging closing your eyes, sneezing and re-opening them to find you can't see.
That would be so confusing
Time stamp for that
@@magnagamer8256 i'm not rewatching the whole video for a time stamp.
i have better things to waste my time on
@@PSYCHOPATH_AT_LARGE jeez sorry
@@magnagamer8256 It starts at 19:07
@@PSYCHOPATH_AT_LARGE All Magna asked you for was the timestamp, that was rude man there's no need for it. You should treat others the way you'd like to be treated, I'm sure you wouldn't like it if someone spoke like that to you
"if a doctor goes really quiet, then calls another doctor saying 'you gotta see this', you're gonna have a bad day."
I got that *a lot* as a kid / teen. Between having 7 wisdom teeth and an eye condition so rare they legit took photos of my eyes for medical textbooks and hauled in an entire Opthalmology teaching class at UCSF saying "this will be the first and last time you ever see this"... Yeah. I got that a lot
7 wisdom teeth?!! i’m so sorry
w-
what condition was that
@@AkoraOridanus I'm not entirely sure, as by the time they stopped talking to my mom and started talking to me, it was massively old news. Bui remember the phrase "atypical degenerative corneal dystrophy". Basically, where the surface of most people's cornea forms a smooth arch, mine looks more like a mountain range
@@athena8794 ah, bumpy.
Something similar happened to my uncle when he was in the hospital for a heart attack. He has a congenital heart deformity that runs in the family (can't remember the name, but it's not particularly dangerous as long as you don't do extreme exercise.) They brought a bunch of interns in to gawk at him, and he told us to send him to ANY other hospital next time he has a heart attack because they made it difficult for him to relax. It's not even a particularly rare deformity though as I understand it, and no one brought in gawking interns at the hospital he went to the time before that. (Heart attacks also run in the family, which I'd bet is probably related to the deformity. His mother - my maternal grandmother - had the same deformity and survived quite a few heart attacks before one finally took her out, so we're all still pretty optimistic about his heart attack survival odds even though he's already had two.)
In regards to the EMT motorcyclist who got run over by a line of cars after going down. My brother trained to be a Firefighter which includes EMT training. On his FIRST ride along with an ambulance they got called to a motorcyclist accident...he came home that day and decided he just wasn’t able to do that job, and told me if I ever rode a motorcycle to please, please wear full protective gear. He seemed disappointed in himself, but I always thought he was really strong for being able to admit that the possibility of seeing that day in and day out would fundamentally change who he was as a person, cuz how could it not?
My brother rides dirt bikes and let’s just say he’s really crazy with it. Hasn’t gotten into an accident yet but I really hate that he rides and wish he would pick any other hobby in the world 😭I worry for his safety A LOT
The bedsore story at 22:00 is real and tragic. I've worked in shitty nursing homes, sometimes the residents absolutely refuse care or to move. I had to deal with the aftermath of a gentleman who refused for months to let anyone clean and change his pants, he would get very, very violent. So staff just let him handle himself, what we didn't know was he developed an infection and by the time he finally let a nurse see you could only see hip bones and black rotted flesh. I quit soon after he was sent to the hospital.
@ Natchy. That NH you worked in had some very poor Nurses and Administrators to allow this to happen. There is *always* a way to get a Resident to comply & I don't mean with drugs or coercion. Using Validation is one way that can put the Resident in the forefront of the situation. Sometimes its a matter of looking at the situation from their point of view.
Part 1: I passed out & fell down hard. There is a lot of blood, but not enough to freak me out too bad. I get done cleaning myself up & go to clean up the floor. I see something that looks like an orange peel. I touch it. Oh crap, that's my forehead!
Part 2: I get home from the hospital. I feel like blasting some zombies. I start up garry's mod. I go to select some zombies to spawn. I notice that one of them has a wound in the same place as mine.
talk about unforseen coincidences
neat, a fan of garry's mod, wish i had it.
Not a doctor but as a patient, The blood one really hits home. I have a couple of stories that stick with me. #1 routine surgery supposed to take 2.5 hours and I woke up intubated in ICU 14 hours later. Turns out they had a little issue and had to replace my entire blood volume twice (confirmed by billing) and to top it off, they were so concerned about blood clotting issues that they maxed me on Heparin which caused a duodenal ulcer to bleed uncontrollably; I was in surgery again within 10 minutes. After that one, they just fed me plasma for a week as they were not confident I could tolerate more packed platelets or more whole blood in such a short period.. 4 days turned into two weeks.. Thank you docs for keeping me alive. :)
Was a medical student when this happen, and not as crazy as most of the stories here.
Patient having very common symptom of appendicitis and admitted for a normal and kinda boring appendectomy. Long story short, instead of finding an inflamed appendix, this guy had an appendix cancer.
Had the same. Am in remission now!
Of all places you could get cancer...
@@TheNinnyfee possibly 1 of the better places to get it, if caught early, so far ive read 2 other stories like this and was caught early. all eventually in peak health and no cancer ever again. like it just focused on the appendix and on the time bomb of spreading when it burst and stuff. so no plan B of spreading any other way, ur bodies cancer plans were completely foiled, cancer: "how did u know?!" me: "doesnt matter, i nvr have to worry again :D"
Oh! That almost happened to me as a kid! I got diagnosed with appencitis after the boys in gym class accidentally hit me in the stomach with a basketball while they were having a contest to see who could throw it the hardest. Anyway, when they cut me open my appendix didn't really look that unusual, but the surgeon removed it anyway since it had clearly been doing something, and sent it off for biopsy. Turned out to have severe hyperplasia, which isn't as bad as actual cancer or anything, but probably still a good thing it got removed
I've been the patient in a "this just got even worse" situation enough times that there are a couple doctors in my mid-sized Midwestern city who pale when they hear my name. I take it as a badge of honor to have survived those moments.
What happened, if you don’t mind me asking?
@@Marshmallow_Trees There are quite a few. I can divide them into surgeries, diagnoses, and nonsurgical emergencies. The first one started a few weeks after my birth, the last one is still going on, but finally starting to heal. How about I tell you how I was paralyzed two days after my first birthday, December 4, 1986?? I had been diagnosed with a genetic disorder that helped to cause four congenital heart defects when I was a baby, basically making my ventricles into Swiss cheese (I had a large hole and a smaller hole in my heart in my left ventricle), at 9 months I went into Congestive Heart Failure, so my doctors gave me feeding tubes to try to get my weight up so they could do open heart surgery. On 12/04/86, two days after my first birthday, I was 13lbs, just under double my birth weight, so a heart surgeon who didn't specialize in children's hearts but had WORKED on children's hearts started my open heart surgery. It got worse when, while he was trying to repair the first defect, he nicked my descending aorta (the artery that brings blood to 80% of the body). I don't blame him for that part, my heart was the size of an egg, of course he could accidentally cut an artery. He clamped the artery off to stop the bleeding (also a good move) and continued the surgery. This is where he screwed up. Somehow, he didn't fix EITHER of the defects he meant to fix, plus he forgot about that clamped off major artery for 71 minutes. He even closed me up and I flatlined in recovery. His...mistake... made blood fill up in my lungs instead of go to the rest of my body, which caused my kidneys to throw clots and start to die. Three days after the surgery (assault), my parents were told I was paralyzed from the chest down. Because of the lack of blood, nerves in my spinal cord died, causing what is called an ischemic break of my spinal cord, it being incomplete the only bright side. I was in a coma for two weeks following that surgery and I'm in a wheelchair to this day. That's one story with at least three "it gets worse" parts in it. I have more stories, but that's one of the most significant ones.
@@katieoberst490 OMGosh! That was definitely an assault!! I would imagine a whole team of people in the OR during that kind of surgery, especially on a tiny little baby...you’d think at least ONE of them would have thought about the clamp or whatever he used!! It sounds like once he messed up, he just quit.
I’m sorry you didn’t receive appropriate care. By the sounds of your story, you’ve been a fighter since day 1...that’s impressive.
@@pameversole5886 My mother just retired as a nurse practitioner, but at the time of that surgery, she was a med tech at the hospital the surgery took place in. She used to talk to one of the nurses that had been in my surgery, the nurse said that there were all manner of mistakes made during it. The surgeon lost his license to practice medicine in my state about 7 years later because I wasn't the only patient he had "trouble" with. I got off lucky as I escaped him with my life, others didn't, and the consequences finally caught up to him. Of course, last I heard, he got his license to practice one state away, but he's most likely dead or very near death now. Yes, I've had to fight my entire life, nearly 36 years now. It's tiring, but never boring, so I can stand it.
@@katieoberst490 with your attitude, I’m sure you’ll come out on top. I wish you the best! ☮️
I'm the patient! But I was getting a standard procedure, just removing the tonsils and adenoids and then they were going to do a nasal scrape. My parents were told the procedure would only take an hour at most. Well they get to the nasal scrape part and they hit a pocket of built up pus, mucus and blood that they hadn't realized was there! This prolonged my 1 hour surgery to 4 hours, they knew I was congested but no one had seen how badly. They'd hoped doing this part of the surgery would help my asthma(kinda I think) and my speech impediment (not one bit! Speech therapy helped though I can't say 'r' without a lot of thought). After the surgery I had to have these long gauze tube things in my nose for like two weeks which sucked, but it was summer so I didn't have to worry about that
Oh I'm so sorry, man. You're doing fantastic!
Not a doc, the patient.
I was 16 and woke up around 2am that morning in severe pain, went to school and suffered throughout the day, then by 6pm I went to my fencing class (second class ever). And my sparring partner lunged his sword right in the center of all my pain, I went backwards and cracked my head on the floor. My mother made a joke about asking if I needed a hospital. She got really freaked out when I broke out in tears and said yes. The attending nurse was worried I might need my appendix removed so they put me in a room and did some tests.
Nope.
I had a couple of cyst on my ovaries and needed to pop. Nurse said if they didn’t pop by the time she checked back then I would need them surgically removed.
This is where this got worse.
Remember when I said I fell backward and cracked my head? Well only my upper back and down landed on the matts, my skull had hit the tile and caused a concussion. No one noticed till 6 hours after I had been admitted to my own hospital room. By that time I was barely responsive.
Just so glad you said 'yes' to your mother even though no one else understood why at the time. That was pretty brave of you under the circumstances.
Anyone who is concussed should be very closely observed, AND they discovered the cysts on your ovaries too.
I have cysts to. I had one pop at work (or maybe was getting ready to) and as time progressed the pain got worse and by the time i clocked off i was crying and driving myself home. I took one of my moms prescription ibuprofen and laid in her bed and cried till the pain stopped... Now that i think about it i probably should have gone to a hospital. Didnt find out about the cysts till after i went to my primary.
I also found out after a surgery to remove cysts that i had endometriosis (the doc removed it during the surgery then told me about it after)
@@gothic_ace2037 just curious, how would one know if they have cysts on their ovaries? Just wondering in case I should get checked out
@@Alex-cm9dd eh i didnt know till one of them ruptured (0/10, do not recommend XD). I suppose if you feel random sharp pains down in your stomach/sides i would suggest a doctors trip (im not sure if that was because of the cysts or the endometriosis tho)? Theyll do an ultrasound on you to find out.
As an Ehlers-Danlos patient and who's SO has Marfan, Marfan was my first thought regarding that young man's aorta. Also, bearing our chronic pain conditions in mind...Diclofenac for broken bones is enraging. That we live in a world where pain meds were pushed so hard that so many people became addicted that anyone who needs it is viewed as a fucking criminal, and therefore keeping a supply of them requires twice the level of difficulty it should have taken to get them in the first place. *sighs* Sorry, pain and pain management is my soapbox. NSAIDS for broken bones....the freakin' nerve.
Also, I once loved someone with Cystic Fibrosis dearly- they are no longer alive, but that doctor that saved that guy's life is my hero now.
Ngl, these stories make me want to be a surgeon even more. It's probably the strangest thing to some people, but that story about the baby that had the cyanotic heart, that's the kind of thing that I want to be a part of. High stakes, high rewards operations on small, innocent lives. I'm so glad she survived that and hopefully, I get to make that meaningful impact on someone's life one day.
Christ, that first one, that isn't a mother, that's a monster
She let her daughter suffer for absolutely no reason.
"That's Tuberculosis"
That must have been terrifying
That first one. Man that's rough
Let me just say that it doesn't matter how big or small you are, some pregnancies aren't obvious. I'm not a light weight person, I weighed 192 the night I gave birth, and it was hardly noticeable. At 7 months, I had a stranger comment I appeared to be only 4. My mother in law admitted she thought we were adopting s child and trying to pass it off as our own, even with all the ultrasound photos. I wasn't offended by the last one, I told her I likely would have just been honest about adopting depending on the situation. Dont judge someone who is pregnant but doesn't appear to be. Though still be cautious and look for visual proof elsewhere.
There’s a phenomena known as cryptic pregnancy, where average-sized women didn’t know they were pregnant, some not until they were actually giving birth. Many don’t show at all, or even still have light periods. Perhaps you had a less extreme case of that.
if someone hits their head (especially the elderly), it is always strongly recommended to get a head CT scan for subarachnoid hemorrhage.
Also, as an EMT, it is hard to watch (mostly listen) to these, but they are vevey informative. We call the "things just got worst" moment the "oh shit" moment. The moment that things went from "ah Betty stubbed her toe, this is a bls call" to a "oh shit, her to is necrotic, and she's going into septic shock" or grandma fell down some steps and you go to check her back and one of her vertebrae is just jellified... oh shit.
Garage door springs are NO freaking joke.
That one made me wonder where the children horse playing with the garage door parents were. They shouldn't have even been playing with the door to begin with.
PSA (Cont'd): Keep kids from playing with garage door.
I bet that playing with it broke it and caused that fatality.
FIL was working on his garage door and the spring sprung... he was caught by his hand in the door mechanism for over an hour until MIL got home. No way for him to get to his cell phone of course. He was lucky he didn't lose a finger or the whole hand... or die of shock or blood loss.
Wish this comnent had more thumbs up. I guess ppl just don't think of them as dangerous unfortunately. Like smart phones. The energy in a lithium cell released during thermal runaway or puncturing is enough to burn your hands and face off while it chokes you in poisonous fumes. Please don't sleep with the dammed thing under your pillow.
@@dennymambo Don't do this! It's irresponsible and I was lucky!
Had an old phone. Non-functioning, battery drained, and I knew about this runaway reaction. I have an old oil drum in my backyard that I make fires in, it was empty and only ashes inside. I got some long metal pliers and a 4lbs hammer and proceeded to smash the phone on the concrete patio. Once the flames sparked up I picked up the pliers and took a few steps back upwind of the reaction. I ogled at the colors momentarily and taking in the moment and luster, picked up the phone with the pliers, dumped it in the oil drum, and put the lid on it. I waited for several more minutes while I could hear the popping and sizzling of the battery going critical. Again, it wasn't a smart thing to do and I could have hurt myself. It makes for a good story though. I should've taken a video.
I used to work in a nursing home...I have personally seen some very bad, stage 4 bedsores from patients who came to us from hospitals. The smell is indescribable...and the description in the video is not an exaggeration...you could literally put your whole fist in the wound as well as see muscle and bone. On the plus side, with proper care they can heal up believe it or not. 😒
😦😧
The people that neglect patients like that should be sent to prison. Unbelievable.
FUCK ME🥺 that’s HORRIBLE.
I've experienced something like this recently...
I am absolutely not a doctor - when I see blood in medical conditions, I start panicking.
My grandmother was a strong woman, she had heart troubles, diabetes, she was coughing quite often. She helped me with finishing my diploma, and the next thing I hear about her is that she's in the hospital with covid. Everyone in family was nervous.
She was bad with covid, but eventually she was getting better, until absence of proper food made her intestines bleed (no idea why, but it has something to do with diabetes), and that was the moment. None of us could say goodbye in the end... It happened that quickly.
Not a doctor, but I worked at a vet clinic for a while. Patient is a large dog with a swollen toe. Apparently, the toe had swollen up like that a month prior, and while the owner had worried about it and considered bringing the dog in, it went away on its own. When it came back, he immediately rushed the dog in. We were examining him and found a large mass on the back of the knee. Further inspection revealed another mass in the groin area. When I had to palpate it to inspect it, I initially thought that the dog had swallowed a rock, it was that solid. It was pretty obviously cancer. We ended up having to euthanize him because the cancer had spread too far, would be way too expensive to treat, and would just leave him in a lot of unnecessary pain. We did an autopsy and sent samples to the lab, confirming lymphoma. The extremely hard mass was so loaded with cancer that even they couldn't determine what it had been before the cancer got to it (I personally think it was an inguinal lymph node based on the position, but I cannot confirm this).
I still feel horrible for the owner, having to go through that. Especially since we probably could've done something about it if he'd been brought in sooner, even if it was just amputating the leg. Dogs can get around on three legs just fine, and adjust to losing limbs far more easily than humans do. It's never easy having to say goodbye to a beloved pet, especially so suddenly and without any time to prepare.
Like the reminder that people with EDS are at higher risk of having your aorta just explode. I’d put that out of my mind and now I’m distinctly anxious again.
22:39 my sister in law developed Guillon-Barret syndrome a few days into january 2021. she was in a coma for a few months, in multiple different hospitals, and fully paralyzed. there were really shitty nurses taking care of her in the hospital she stayed in the longest and she developed *horrible* bed sores. its taken over a year for them to heal, and its only now that they don't constantly hurt. bed sores are horrible. nurses out there, if you have a patient that requires rotating to prevent this, fucking rotate them. if you don't they will be in excruciating pain due to these sores and it will be your fault bc you didn't do your job.
If there's *one* thing I do NOT want to hear coming out of a surgeon's mouth, it's "oopsie poopsie"
I worked with a surgeon that would say, "Yippy Skippy!" when checking his post surgical work. Guess that's much better!!
YIKES. SJS is BRUTAL. I remember when I started taking a certain med my doctor told me to watch out for symptoms of SJS. Thankfully I never had any symptoms.
Yes, I had a massive allergic reaction to a new Rx and developed blisters all over, including the soles of my feet and a couple in my mouth. They were concerned that it was deteriorating into SJS but they were able to stop it with a buttload of IV steroids. Our local hospital did a really good job.
I’ve been watching this without being told because it’s a rare but potential side effect of every single medication (other than prescribed doses of vitamins/iron) I’ve had to take.
Oh man, I relate so hard. Both the mood stabilizers I've tried can become SJS and I was allergic to the first one. Problem is, typically with meds if I'm allergic I get hives everywhere and my lips can sometimes go numb. That was a fun Christmas. Thankfully the second one works great and hasn't caused any issues, but my god we were careful with it.
Nothing like seeing a hit and run outside your gas station late at night on a motorcycle rider. And running out and thinking the guy is fucked up but he's gonna live. Get the first aid kit. Break a mop in half and use gauze and the handle to stabilize his head best I can. Clean and wrap his left arm. Telling 911 that I need an ambulance but he's okay and then going to move the bike only to realize the handle bar is through his abdomen and the underside of his chest and there is a growing pool under him and you know he won't live the hour till ems can arrive. And you just hold the guy and just ask him if he has anything I should tell anyone. And I just get gurgling as a responce.
I have a DNR on our refrigerator. It means if I am dying no heroic attempts to keep me alive are to be performed. The only medical attention would be to just keep me comfortable on my way to the next level of being. When I worked in a hospital, I saw many parents kept alive and suffering by their adult children who couldn't let them go. My husband and doctor and I are all in agreement, thank goodness.
I have many new fears now. Garage doors, sneezing, laying in bed, just about everything else...
@35:40 - WTH kind of hospital doesn’t have braces, c-collars, or freaking X-Ray?!? I see maybe not having CT or MRI, but come on. I’m hoping this is a mistranslation of the word hospital…
Very rural, poorly funded and open on a shoestring. I live in a very rural sparsely populated county, and our hospital until Katrina handouts had a generator that was WWII surplus. In case of power out they could take an X ray but they didn't have enough electricity to print it. If you need ultrasound here you are going to have to go at least an hour away. They also gave up delivering babies here unless it's an absolute (the kid is crowning) because they can't afford the malpractice insurance. You end up here, it's basically a glorified triage and you will be sent elsewhere. Everyone here subscribes to an air ambulance service because. If the doors close, then some of the area has no medical response short of 4 1/2 hours. That's how.
NAD but one morning on vacation with my family, I had a nosebleed that I let drip into the bathroom toilet until it stopped... but 2 or 3 hours later my sister saw I was up and let the rest of the family know, because at that point it's definitely gone on too long. I got taken to the closest clinic and the doctor there tried having me pinch my nose and tilt my head back, then tried putting gauze in... and at some point the blood ended up going through my sinuses into my eyes. All I could tell was my eyes were getting blurrier but apparently that really freaked out my grandma. The doctor basically admitted he was out of ideas and I should go to an actual specialist after that. It's good I did because after that week or two of visits and nasal cautery I haven't had real nosebleeds since.
My dad almost died from an abscessed tooth. He'd had knee surgery a couple months earlier but didn't bother going to the dentist for a known cavity so when it got infected the infection went to his knee. It turned into sepsis and I had to literally yell at my mother to call an ambulance to get him because he insisted he was fine. He ended up in hospital for over a month and had multiple organ failure. He eventually recovered but it messed him up pretty badly. Then 6 months later his aorta tore from the previous damage and once again he made it to hospital just in time. They had to stop his heart for 20 minutes in order to repair it. He now has permanent brain damage and part of his aorta is only held together by some mesh which means it could split further at any time. Don't ignore your teeth.
The one with the vajayjay tear I wonder what other things went wrong after that can of worms opened. Due to keeping lots of things secret I'm guessing she lost both her GF and family along with the baby who is being raised by her parents.
It makes me feel like she lied about her sexual preferences/orientation because she doesn't know what it actually is. She has to have a secret male friend with benefits if she got pregnant.
Yep that one got way worse due to so much lying by omission.
Another version of the story could've been that she was r@ped and was too ashamed, or was in denial, to ever say anything about it. Not saying it's that deep but I've seen it happen before so it's not out of the realm of probability
@ Pink Agaricus It is Not the vajajay, it IS the Vulva. As a woman, you should know your own anatomy.
@@lorriefinley3129 The post literally said it was a _vaginal_ tear.
I dont have a story as severe as some of these people, but it still was pretty significant. I wrestled at my middle and high school for a total of 5 years, and (somehow) managed to only seriously hurt myself once. My very last match, literally last time I ever stepped on the mat, I tore my meniscus somehow. I had a bucket handle tear that then flipped on itself almost like folding a piece of paper. It probably goes without saying that that should hurt _a lot_ . I walked away with my knee feeling a little funky, but not hurting. Biggest sign that something was wrong was that I couldn't lock my knee (I've always been able to lock both of my knees so not being able to do that was odd - the meniscus tear that folded over was between the leg bones and literally preventing me from straightening my leg 100%). Saw the trainer there who told me to ice it, and saw my school's trainer that Monday (shoutout to him he knew something was up and it was way worse than we thought) and he told me I couldn't use that knee. At all. For someone who was having no pain, I was confused and very defiant and didn't listen to him. my mom takes me in to a knee specialist just in case, and I have an MRI. Doctor says he thinks it's probably just some arthritis or tendinitis because I'm not having any pain and everything mainly feels weird and uncomfortable. Alright, whatever. I can deal with that. As soon as the doctor gets the MRI results he calls and says we need to come back in - immediate bad sign. He breaks the news of me managing to tear part of my knee, looks at me and tells me I should be in serious pain at the moment. At this point I'm still not having any knee pain by the way. I'm pretty sure I walked into his office without any crutches or anything.
imagine having some kid come in to your office with no pain, very little discomfort, and the only complaint being "I can't fully extend my leg" and you, a SPECIALIST, are pretty unconcerned about it because the kid _isnt in any pain_ . Like, I can't imagine what went through his head. I wonder if he thought he fucked up afterwards because he couldn't tell what was actually happening. That is honestly a serious injury that can go bad really fast, especially since I was walking on it like nothing happened for _weeks_ . I have a high pain tolerance, but for what that was, I should have been feeling something. I still don't know what was up with it or why I didn't feel any pain. My knee is fine now, patched up with no nerve damage (in fact, I hurt more during physical therapy than I did prior to surgery).
This whole thread just makes me love every nurse, doctor and surgeon I have even known. I'm a 16 year cancer survivor because of great doctors. Especially my crazy, hilarious doctor who loves all the same crazy s&*t we do and saved me from being days away from a brain-melting stroke. My BP and cholesterol are perfect numbers now thanks to him, and who knew you weren't supposed to bite your nails for decades because you had amazing anxiety and depression issues? Now I tell him he's cost me a fortune in nail polish and make sure I show up with some crazy nail art I've concocted based on a movie. He loved the green underneath the shattered purple I did for the Hulk when I did the "Avengers" nails and the layers of blue and white I did for "Hoth -- Echo Base". He takes pictures.
I love the doctor ones! More please!
Same!!
Exactly!!!
When I had my wisdom teeth out, the doc paused the removal of my lowers to have everyone else there come in and look at my nerve. Apparently the nerve under my teeth has no channel in the bone. Just kind of lays between the teeth roots. He must have nicked it on the right side a little bit because I lost feeling along the right side of my lower jaw for 6ish months. No I wasn't awake, and no it did not get way worse, but I guess it was a fun time for the assistants in his practice.
wonder if that’s what happened to me. had no sensation in a quarter of my face after having mine out.
I went into the er for pelvic pain, was sent to a different hospital for exploritory surgery. They thought I had intermittent ovarian torsion. While in surgery they found that not only did I have that, but I also had a cancerous tumor in my intestinal track that was blocking my appendix. My surgeon was pissed because in my file it showed they found the appendix issue 3 yrs earlier but never told me. So my appendix was on the verge of bursting for 3 yrs due to cancer and it only came to light because I had multiple cysts on my ovaries.
The first one is so sad… :(
Never assume that only licensed med staff in a hospital see the bad shit. It's just that Custodial, Supply Chain, Pharmacy and Foodservice get told to deal with it and carry on. I was filling nurse supplies (entry level job) and the amount of nastiness and abuse we got from patient (and med staff, they're technically great at their job but can be real goddamn bastards) interactions was nuts.
Not a doctor, but 2 weeks ago my friend got hurt pretty bad.
So we were at swordfighting club, and he jumps and lands wrong on his knee, no one touched him mid-jump, just a bad landing, he couldn't get up after. One guy said he might have heard a pop.
We take the hurt friend to the closest urgent care, and he still can't walk on his own because of the pain. It hurts for him to move his leg, and the urgent care doesn't have the proper x-ray equipment, so the friends with him (the rest of us had to go do our grocery trip to prep for our spring break that weekend) take him to the actual ER. He gets an x-ray done, they somehow don't find anything, friends say it was not going well, having to hold him down screaming to get a cast put on. At this point the theory is that his kneecap is dislocated, maybe pinching a nerve or something. We all help him get up the stairs in a snowstorm to his apartment at 12:30am. His mom comes to take him home (to another state) so he can see his family doctor over spring break.
A few days later he gives an update, got an MRI and more x-rays, kneecap is dislocated and chipped. Ligaments seem fine. Has surgery scheduled.
Just yesterday got a final update, he's not coming back to school for the rest of the semester, his kneecap and femur broke, but the surgeon pieced him back together and reattached ligaments. It'll take a few weeks to heal but the fact that it all happened from a small jump and a bad landing is quite something.
My brother is training to be a neurosurgeon. He's told me how a man walked in for a basic check-up, and after an X-Ray, they found a tumour in his spinal cord, blocking around 90% of the cross-section of his bone marrow. How he was able to walk in and hold a casual conversation with the team, while not feeling a thing out of the ordinary, was nothing short of a miracle.
So, not a doctor just a scary scenario I had.
I have a family history for heart disease. I was working security for a three day concert event in San Francisco. The band playing is known for the triple ros. Cryros, hydros, and pyros for their show. Normally one or even two of these being used in the building was not a big deal. It became a huge deal for me as my heart started to flutter rapidly. I was well aware of my own family history, but nothing else was really effecting me. Just a fluttery heart on the first day of this concert.
These venues had a small medical staff to help out with medical needs. Most of the time it is just deydrarion or over excertion because of the customers all having too much of a good time. The medical staff extends to the performers, stage hands, and yes security.
I went to them, telling them that my heart is fluttering really fast. They didnt have the equipment to actually check my heart over, only a very basic EKG to measure my heart beats and gave me some tums to hopefully help calm my heart down.
It took 2 hours, and I had to tell my boss I was in med because of my heart fluttering really fast in a stationary position. I know if it ends up being a far more serious situation, the paramedics on hand would have stepped in.
I have a habit of surprising doctors, one day though I'm well aware that my luck will run out.
Heaven forbid you let your loved one go with dignity...
the one with the kid and the garage door spring ripped my heart in half. please, please, for the love of fucking god, keep an eye on your kids. make sure they're safe. make sure you teach them not to mess with certain things. i'm gonna go cry now.
"Thats tuberculosis "
I got shivers 😂
29:40 My dad beat two different cancers, the third got him at age 41
I literally had a " Bro you gotta see this crap. " moment. My orthopedic surgeon's lab techs were doing the x-rays for my shoulders and obviously they don't see anything out of the ordinary. I go to the room and my doctor comes in and just goes " Wow. " and then he motions for two other doctors to come in and explains he showed them my shoulder. " I have never seen someone's shoulder go necrotic, the patient know exactly what's wrong and the shoulder also remain together for so long despite it clearly being dead from here... to here. " and he shows that almost 1/3rd of my right arm is dead below the shoulder, basically. Long story short, we had two more moments like that when I returned for my right hip and left arm. All of those joints are metal prosthetic bones now.
That first one infuriates me. How could a court even refuse when the person is almost entirely dead? like not metaphorically, her fucking limbs were rotting off dead.
WHAT IS THE POINT OF HAVING A DNR OR LIVING WILL IF IT MEANS SHIT AFTER YOU GO INCOHERENT?? "but in my state" I stg I hope this doesn't mean the USA, I hope the hospital threw a fit too and that justice was served for future people.
The murder via burning one was so sad. That poor woman.
I wish all EMTs would take advice and not treat everyone like a drug addict.
Unfortunately most of them do.
I have been a chronic pain patient for over 17 years, I have done every test that every doctor wanted, even the degrading tests, injections into my spine, so many times over the years that I could not remember them all. It got so bad the switched my meds to morphine.... OMG the headaches I asked to switch the medications back. Everything was fine I deal with the pain, until a newbie pharmacist refused my pain meds basically calling me an addict, and the specific meds are a "Break through" pain medication, and I told her I will not go back on morphine... She didn't care, 17 YEARS doing everything my doctors asked of me, wiped out by a single pharmacist with a god complex... I am not on pain medications, I cannot work, I cannot do as much, as before, it now takes 6-7 hours to do the things needed in 2 hours...
Blacklisted as an addict while doing everything asked of me, and I wanted lower doses... An addict would request MORE meds, stronger meds...
@@helookalikaman79 I tried Vicodin once (1pill) and it felt like dead people following me around. That was it, no opiates ever.
Honeslty i just hate when medical professionals treat drug addicts like theyre somehow less worthy of treatment. People with substance issues can have any number of comorbid conditions, whether related to substances or not. If you’re an EMT, its literally not your problem if you are too cautious. Absolutely no harm to you if you drop them off at the ER. Someone with a lot more power can make that decision for you, you’re in the clear, and hopefully if there are any issues in addition to addiction they can be identified by just having more eyes on the patient.
@@helookalikaman79 my fiance is going through this exact thing now because of a pharmacist.
These things always freak me out because of everything medical that can happen to you. Imagine going to the doctor cause you have a sprained ankle and it's actually about to explode. Holy shit.
Oh my gosh, that last one I can just see all they were referring too and I am amazed they did all they did for him. Other medical personals might have called it or made an end of life decision for him d/t his prognosis. They did a great job and I'm so glad they didn't give up on him.
32:41 this happened to me at the dentist once when I was around 12. A ton of plaque and 4 teeth needed to be pulled. Have started taking care of my teeth much better since.
37:03 onward is so silly sounding.
That mother is absolutely cruel for removing that DNR. I dream of such people getting cancer, getting forced chemo, and being denied pain and nausea medicine.
27:24, Oof. The motorcyclist dismemberment. Worst one for me. 🤢
Re: Garage door springs. When I broke up with someone, they got mad and slammed open by wide 2 car garage door and it screwed it up. Usually I'm a "fix it yourself" kind, but I knew not to mess with that. Got the door down as much as I could with the help of a neighbor to help prevent theft (right on a rural highway, not far from the road). Had to give him a broken down gokart for his help (hicks in the American south always want something, they never want to just be kind) and I called up a garage door repair place the next day. Made my ex pay for the repairs ($150'ish) to get the cables and such put back right.
Y'all the outro is going wild
The first one is just so sad, the mother let her daughter agonize
Not me but my sister and I got to witness it: a few years ago my sister kept somehow twisting her left ankle very easily or getting a fracture, everyone chalked it up to her being a dancer but then it started to hurt and became more frequent with breaks or twists, mom decides to take her to a specialist sports medicine center at a hospital, I tag along just for fun and as we wait in the room the doctor finally came in and looked at her X-ray, then moved around her ankle and noticed how extremely weak it was which isn’t normal at all, he then discovered she was kidding that entire piece of tissue over her ankle to keep it flexible and stable, it appears it hasn’t been around ever since she was born, he had many other doctors come in that room to watch him roll around the ankle with ease yet fear as he told us just her walking on it at this point could shatter her ankle, she had surgery 6 months later and now only suffers from arthritis in her ankle
I had that skin condition where the skin bubbles up, it was from an Alergy from my antibiotic. I did end up in the hospital but survived.
My uncle died the same way he was riding a motorcycle without a helmet doing wheelies and got hit by the cornerstore
I'm 76, and dealing with the results of "walking it off" 60 years ago. It''s not fun.
As a ex medic...I feel sorry for the patients and proud of all the medical personal.
Mine.my gallbladder.full of stones.okay. doctor goes in to remove my.gallbladder.surgery should have been like an hour.ended up being a bit over 3 hours total.doc got in,and my.gallbladder was rotting.yep.not kidding.had it not been removed,id be dead.it was going sepsic.
weren’t you in a ton of pain? scans didn’t show anything?
That’s awful!!
Respond with my mom who was a volunteer firefighter for the small town we lived in. A car filled with teens who drove or down the side a hill into a pine tree. The drive was impaled on a branch through the neck. The kid was thrashing around and the near by town was sending help full 9 yards. The kid was thrashing and screaming his friends didn't help by thrashing. He was dead by the time the helped 15 minutes and was set up. I can't forget the smell of blood not even 21 years later
Was having a side effect from prozac that gave me anisocoria. Doctor says while this is likely that let's do a ct scan to make sure. Mid procedure the doctor/tech asks if I have had any head injuries recently. Nope. Turns out I have a intracranial lipoma that is wedged between the plates of my skull making it look like I have a fracture. I call him fat tony he is inoperable and has been chilling there since I was a kid and despite more than one ct scan as a kid nobody noticed a golf ball sized tumor in my head. Fun times
the fact a DNR can be ignored because a patient is nonresponsive, and even the legal system wont enforce it, is terrifying. a DNR cant just mean nothing, in the exact situation when a DNR should be useful.
I walked around with a lumbar spinal fracture for three days post discharge after an MVA because the hospital only did an X-ray of my head & neck. I went back to my GP because my lower back was hurting when I walked & he sent me for an ultrasound. It hurt too much so they css as lord him & he told them to do an X-ray & what do you know, fractures. So much fun log rolling for the next few weeks but the drugs were good.
Yeah, this is a little too heavy for my morning drive to work.
When i was in surgery for a broken leg my leg swelled to the size of a cantaloupe in roughly 35 minutes and so i got bumped up in the surgery queue and it took them a double dose of sedative to put me under because of adrenaline levels
I was very fortunately unfortunate
About 2 years ago now I started having eye problems, which turned out to be cataracts
Since I was around 15 at the time I had blood tests done because having cataracts at such a young age is weird
Turns out I have type 1 diabetes. No diabetic retinopathy, just the cataracts
So I ended up being treated before I went into diabetic coma
I’m doing much better now, I have very good control of my blood sugars and artificial lenses in my eyes
Jesus christ, I was not expecting so much gruesome stories. Especially the one with the motorcyclist, that was hands down the worst. The one with the husband trying to kill his wife for cheating was just sad.
That first one is so tragic and the mother was so selfish.
1st case make the mother pay for the healthcare.
That 1st 1 is awful.
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29:56 And now I'm wondering how strong my immunity system is. When I was a kid, I was so scared of the dentists that I was hiding my rooting tooth for over two years. I couldn't eat with that side at all. And worse, I was "taking care" of it all by myself, wiggling pieces of it with my bare fingers for months untill I was ready to pull a single piece out. When dentist finally saw it, there was almost nothing to pull out. But now I have a really huge hole in that place because it changed the shape of my other teeth.
Rest in peace.
I wonder if the skateboard guy had his life saved or the tumor was cancer. It's crazy how some people discover one life-threatening thing they never knew about after experiencing a separate different life-threatening thing.
I try to tell everyone I know to drink alcohol responsibly due to the danger of esophageal varices. I was a nursing student barely on my first semester and in my rotation in the ICU when a middle aged man came in because he said he felt nauseous. The ER team brought him up after he began to throw up blood.
He was perfectly lucid and joking with us. I was setting up the IV line as the nurse went through the standard medical history questions. The team assumed he was experiencing something related to gastric ulcers. Yeah....well, shit hit the fan only a couple seconds later. We didn't know at that moment but that man was a chronic alcoholic.
I remember he cleared his throat and his face kind of scrunched up. Then there was blood pouring out of his mouth. I'm not joking when I saw this. It like...literally just began to flood out as he coughed. We all knew exactly what it was at this point. A code was called and the team did their best to stabilize him before moving him to get the varices cauterized or ballooned (I don't remember the specific treatment they were trying to do. It was a much smaller hospital.) I remember his vitals just plummeting to the gutter. His airway was compromised so they did their best to intubate him but sadly that was a bad move. It only worsened the bleeding.
I had to stand there watching this man bleeding out of his mouth and nose and choking on his blood. The worst thing is he was conscious for most of it and just stared wide eyed trying to fight us.
He didn't survive sadly.
There was so much blood. Smeared and pooled all over the floor. All over us and the patient. Even after he passed, we just stood there in silence before going to throw away our scrubs and change into new ones. And we continued our day, trying to forget that ever happened.
Thats terrifying..
word of warning. for about 30 seconds at the end of this video, the audio loops a single second section and its super jarring for people who just have it set to autoplay in the background
That first one...
Paramedic here. That mountain Medoc diagnosing a heart attack off a 4 lead? That either didn't happen or there are some important details missing. You need a 12 lead to diagnose a STemi
My mom was a nurse in nursing homes. She was the wound nurse- and the stuff she told me about is nasty. She loved it though, not sure why, my mom is kinda crazy LOL
Mom was getting her check and didn't want to let it go
So, im a med student and I’m doing my TH-cam watching after a long night of studying but the story that started at 2:02 made me willing to do that all over again. If I could do that every day that’d be the dream. Obviously not the death part but just the like “oh shoot we’re chill” then the next minute “Oh shit let’s save a life real quick.” Idk maybe I’m weird but I was an EMT so idk🤷🏾♀️
27:16 This is yet another reason that I don't ride motorcycles or date anyone who rides one. I've lost friends and loved ones who were bikers, and nope.
20:16 garage doors are EXTREMELY dangerous to mess with. If you don't have LOTS of experience with mechanics, you should NEVER try to fix them yourself. Shit like this CAN AND WILL HAPPEN.
Yaaaassss remix at the end of this video
Laster
ECMO is basically when you replace the heart and lungs with a maschine. Very last ditch effort and only the biggest and most advanced hospitals have those. Coming out of something like this without any deficit borders on a miracle since not to rarely ppl are vegetables at best when they have been put on those maschines.
I like how even the ending is fucked up
I hate people who don’t let their family members go they’re suffering but no don’t take him off life support because we’ll miss grandpa so much
The guy that blew out his tumor out was fucking scary
For the algorithm and the channel.