Yeah…I don’t think I was fully prepared for all of this 😭. If you work in the medical field and have a story like this, feel free to share it in the comments or submit it below — your story might end up in a future BuzzFeed Community post! Note: Some responses have been edited…
24. “I’m a single mom by choice. I have a beautiful and healthy daughter who is 6 years old. I lost a baby boy in 2014, the father was a guy I dated at that time, and I was desperate to be a mother to a living child. I tell everyone I got pregnant the…
7. “I’m an ICU Nurse. If the patient or family member can answer, one of the questions we ask at admission is ‘When was your last bowel movement?’ Because you should be having a minimum of three per week, preferably one good ‘number two’ a day. I had a patient who came in for a…
18. “I’ve gone no-contact with my father twice. The first time was right after he and my mom divorced. He lived near my brother and was actually pretty involved in my brother’s kid’s lives, but after the divorce, he sent a letter to my brother letting him know that he would not be a grandpa…
21. “My old housemates would cut food directly on the marble countertop of the kitchen island and leave the residue there, despite the fact that we each had two cabinets worth of our own kitchen tools, including cutting boards. They also never washed their dishes to the point that their side of the two-basin sink…
18. “I worked as a healthcare productivity analyst. Academic medicine has removed the incentive for physicians and caregivers to interact with patients. While at the University of Texas Medical Branch, we conducted a research project on the border between Texas and Mexico. We were looking for evidence that patient care improved through interaction with physicians….
—dance_rattle_shake “And it was almost completely different. The film spent years in production hell. It was originally meant to be this grand musical epic, like The Lion King, called Kingdom of the Sun. After really poor test screenings, Disney execs split the production team in half, gave half to Roger Allers, the original director, and…
—m46d00d5bb “I did find it boring. And I always hate when people assume that if you don’t like that, you must only like CGI films — not that I can’t enjoy those. Hey, I love classic movies. I actually enjoyed How Green Was My Valley (that beat it in the Oscars) way more than Citizen Kane.”…
4. Here is the most controversial entry from the original post: “If you have stage 3 (and definitely if you have stage 4) cancer, SKIP THE CHEMO! It’s likely not going to save your life and may actually hasten your death and/or destroy the quality of the little time you have left (because it will…
