We all know that having a chronic illness can be difficult and depressing, so this is a thread about the silly things that have happened as a result of our illnesses and disabilities.
Please keep them silly or funny, there’s enough depressing stuff on Lemmy these days 🙂
This is my particular piece of stupidity 😁
About 15 years ago I was seriously ill, several weeks in hospital including a coma and a lot of rehab. In the meantime, my wife had moved us in with my mother while work was being done on our house.
When I got home from the hospital, I was excited to get back online to catch up with my friends, so picked my computer up and ran up the stairs. I got about three steps up and literally got stuck, my legs just wouldn’t move.
I had to get my wife to squeeze past me on the stairs and take my computer, while I got back down, took the computer back so that she could get down, then give it back to her to put down.
Slightly embarrassing, but always makes me laugh 😁
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Woke up in the hospital following a heart attack. I needed a stent, but they had to get me to a different hospital for the surgery and there was a delay due to a snow and ice storm.
6 AM, I wake up and am fiddling with my phone, nurse comes in the room.
“Were you asleep about an hour ago?”
“Yeah, I just woke up, why?”
“Your heart stopped for 8 seconds.”
“Um… ‘thank you’? I don’t know what the correct response is to ‘your heart stopped for 8 seconds.’ Shouldn’t the alarms have gone off? I don’t remember hearing anything…”
“Oh, no, the alarms go off at the nurses station.”
So now I have an implant monitoring for when my heart stops again. Docs say they aren’t worried if it happens when I’m asleep, it’s if I’m awake that worrie them.
“Were you asleep about an hour ago?”
“Yeah, I just woke up, why?”
“Your heart stopped for 8 seconds.”
I love the implication that they didn’t check on you, just saw the alarm turn off and thought ‘That’ll do!’ 😳😂
I hope you’re doing ok now, or at least as ok as you can 🙂
It’s been tough, that was my 2nd, possibly 3rd. There’s evidence I might have had a 3rd that had no symptoms. But hey, as long as I still wake up in the morning. 😉
Got a buddy that has a pacemaker because his heart stopped a of seconds while he was standing up. He fell and hit his head pretty badly, was in a coma for weeks etc. So that’s why they are concerned with short pauses when you are awake ;) thats not as much concern when you are asleep as this is happening not frequently and its more akin to sleep apnea.
So you’re not messing about then? 🙈😂
Honestly though, that’s the best attitude to have 🙂
