“What Do People Not Realize Has An Extremely High Chance Of Happening?” (30 Answers)

I was active and fit until I suddenly couldn't be active. 3 major operations later, I can't walk across a room without needing to recover from the pain. And the weight gain that goes with suddenly not being able to move is insane.

Last year I hurt my leg so bad that I had to use a walker for a couple of weeks. I now have even more respect for disabled people.

And the ones who mistreated & bullied disabled people are the biggest whiners when it happens to them.

34yo... Completely fine 3 months later I couldn't brush my own hair. It took years for them to find the issue... You never appreciate just being a functional human being until you're not.

I broke my foot in 4 places, no insurance. Lost my job, my apartment and my credit is about to implode. Everything changed in a moment. I have an apartment in a senior low income building, but I had to wait so long for medical care that I need bone fusion surgery. Poof! Life changes.

The anti abortion people will want to attack women who miscarry as they will suspect it was induced. Wouldn't be the first time. Just saying.

That's why it used to be the norm to not announce a pregnancy until the second trimester. And also why many of these red states anti abortion bans where every embryonic (not even a fetus) death is met with suspect and the mother can be arrested for murder are horrific, if for only one reason embryos have a high unalive rate normally how are you ever going to prosecute that case? You were pregnant then you were not and some republican prosecutor decided you need to be tried for murder? Are you serious? Gtfo

This happened to my former spouse a handful of weeks into the pregnancy. No rhyme or reason, it just happened. And it sucked. I'd also like to point out that 1) the procedure they had done (D&C) would now be considered abortion and illegal in the state we live in and 2) while my ex was in tears on the phone with the hospital, they held us up for a copay before they'd schedule the procedure.

I want to up vote this so many times. Also important to normalize fertility struggles and the many, many conditions that are unique to ovaries and uteruses.

I was told to think of it like my body didn't know what to do, and it's like a warm up so next time it knows what to do.

This picture is not exactly the best representation of chronic illnesses, as I feel it implies it is because the lady in the photo is overweight. Lots of people with chronic illnesses don’t look ill, even though they might be having the absolute worst day.

Is the diabeetus considered chronic? Type 2, that is.

100%! Add dual, triple or quadruple co-morbibidity and man we are fighting at times not only to be seen but to be believed and fought for. Then you find out that most if not all if these things fall under that one big umbrella diagnosis that for most of your life they told you was in your head. YAY! Science for proving them wrong! 😐

If we are lucky we will ALL be diagnosed with a chronic illness.

Yup

I had my first at 40 and my second at 43. My nurse sister-in-law urged me to have an at-home birth but my ob-gyn suggested that due to my age it would be better to have them in a hospital. Lots of bleeding on my part with the first, and the second got stuck. They got a vacuum in there and swear to god the medical association especially labor and delivery need to come up with a good spray on anesthetic as getting that thing up my vagina hurt so much worse than the actual delivery.

In the Netherlands, it's still the default option to have a baby delivered at home by your midwife. If you want a hospital birth without an explicit medical need you have to pay extra for it (otherwise healthcare/birth is fully covered by universal healthcare). I'm really surprised that the mortality rate during child birth is not higher here.

In USA you really have a high risk of death of both mother and child during pregnancy and labour. You are the country in the western world with the highest numbers. In many countries In Europe you have highly educated midwife during the pregnancy and birth. Our homebirth is safer than hospitals (special in denmark).... course we select and visitate the women carefully and they are seen by both doctors and midwifes! So... your problem is not hospital or not. It is lack of controls, education and a healthsystem that would work for all!!

Moments after my third child was born, a nurse leaped on top of me and started essentially jumping on my abdomen, looking concerned and determined, but not saying anything. I don't remember if it was some kind of clot or part of the afterbirth didn't come out or what, but I was later told it was life threatening and the nurse saved me. The wild thing in my mind was that once she was satisfied her work was done, there was no fanfare or acknowledgement. Everything just continued on as if nothing had happened. It was just another day looking into the face of death and casually winning life.

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With my only pregnancy that made it past the first few weeks, I went for my 28 week check up complaining that I was constantly peeing myself and I didn't know why.. turned out my son had put his tiny foot thru my sac, and put a tiny hole in it. So instead of going home after my appointment, I was immediately admitted and put on bedrest. Their only goal was to get me as far past 34 weeks as possible. I was getting ready for bed one night and they came in and told me they were giving me an emergency c-section in 2 hours, because my liver was failing, and both the baby and I were at risk of dying. I was at 34 weeks 1 day exactly. My son had to be in the NICU for 2 weeks after that, until he got up to 5 pounds. Luckily, he had no major complications from being born so early, just underweight and weak lungs. I'm thankful every single day that my doctors office was in a hospital, so I had immediate care, didn't have to drive anywhere, and could just focus on keeping my son where he belonged.

One day the person I considered my best friend told me I've been terrible to her for a year and that we always argue (but to my knowledge the only argument we ever had was a petty one we had the night before) and she also never brought up any problems she had with me /ever/, and then she cut me off. Completely shattered my trust in people. I told her /everything/. So if someone I trusted so much could do this to me, who could I trust?

This is my biggest fear, even without a precedence. I often find myself obsessing that someone close to me will die or leave me.

My best friend came into money. Anyone who gave her advice, like get a good accountant or trust lawyer to plan for your future, she ghosted. Now she spends most of her time with her highschool stoner/boozer friend.

Was in a relationship for 7 yrs that came to an abrupt halt in 2020 (right as COVID officially became a pandemic and after a major surgery). She was my partner... Still not "over it" and that's fine (I guess) but it s*cks.

After my major surgeries, I quickly learned who really cared about me and who didn’t. My family left me in the dust.

Oh no, you will find it when you search for the next thing.

You'll find it when you're looking for something else. But you won't find that something else.

Murphy's law. Also, if you needed the thing bad enough to have to go buy a new one, you'll find it after that, and the following week you'll find it on sale 😂

I always find it in the second-to-last place I look.

On the same hand, throwing away something you don’t think you’ll need only to need it a week later