Maybe the centipede that took up residence in my ear canal, or the narrowly survived rattlesnake bite?
Definitely the centipede.
Welp, that’s enough discussion for me today.
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I don’t know if it’s the kind of story shared on that show, but I once had to be wheeled into an ER with hypothermia on a warm day (dry, properly clothed, etc).
How? Why?
Central dysautonomia. Basically, my autonomic nervous system can’t regulate my body temperature (among other things) all the time.
What triggers it being unable to? Like it decides to just not work sometimes, or is it like a battery percentage?
Physical stress seems to do it the most. For example, if I get sick or injured (such as have surgery), everything starts to go haywire.
Often it’s more random seeming but with less extreme impacts.
But also, as you said, it can be like a battery percentage. Like, I get more and more and more worn down over a handful of hours or days or weeks, and then that causes a bunch of other symptoms. I’ve learned to pace myself to avoid that.
When my mother was pregnant with me, it was said that I had an opposite gender twin, but then comes my birth and such a twin is nowhere to be found.
You likely absorbed them. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vanishing_twin
That used to be a theory, but it was looked into and it doesn’t seem to be what happened (also didn’t know that doesn’t just happen to identical twins).
Sounds like something a neonatal cannibal would say ;)
So like merged into your mother then? How does/would that work?
By imagining it more like stillbirth with a minimized trace.
While I can obviously guess what kind of stories it has, I’ve never heard of Untold Stories of the ER. Where is this shown? Sounds ripe for entertainment.
In the US, it’s in the first thirteen TV channels. It’s one of those basic cable shows like Law and Order that seems to never die (and unlike Law and Order remains fresh).
Ah. I just use streaming platforms and physical media.
It’s on streaming too, depending on the service.
Otherwise the high seas are also an option.
Oddly specific but alright, I guess I’ll become a sailor in response to Untold Stories of the ER not being on Netflix, though it might land me on the show.
Don’t know if this is fitting, but I was once on our downstairs toilet which had a sink in front of it.
I sneezed and my head bolted forward and I knocked off half my tooth.
Don’t know if this type of thing counts, but I know that when either my brother or I was born one nurse wouldn’t let my mom see whichever one of us it was unless she could walk a certain distance that was a technically unsafe thing for her to do in her state. She did. Eventually a doctor did come by and told her that what the nurse did was totally wrong and unacceptable. Don’t remember the full story, but man moms can be such badasses.
I’ve dislocated my shoulder fourteen times; as a result, when I broke my ankle, I just thought it was dislocated as well. I twisted it back into place and tried to stand up on it … Twice … Before my neighbor heard me and gave me the sage advice to stop doing that.
