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During the Dublin Whiskey Fire of 1897, 13 people died, not from the fire or smoke inhalation but from alcohol poisoning after drinking the “rivers of whiskey” that filled the streets.
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Paul McCartney recorded the song Wonderful Christmastime entirely on his own during the sessions for his second solo album. In 2010 it was estimated that the song earns $400,000 a year, putting the overall earnings at $15 million.
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Have you ever looked at your cat, sleeping on the couh or lolling in the sun like they’ve got not a single care in the world?
If so, you’ve probably thought to yourself at least once that, if you get a vote in what you’d like to live another life as, a cat just might be the ticket.
I mean, pets, sleeping all day, and no one throwing you out when you’re in a temperamental mood?
Seems like the good life if you ask me!
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Why do cats sleep so much, though? Is there such a thing as sleeping too much? Keep reading to find out!
The average housecat sleeps between 16-20 hours every day because it’s deep in their genes to do just that (even though yeah, they might still be lazy).
If you think all that sack time means your cat isn’t a top-notch predator, though, you’ve got another think coming.
House cats are still cats – still, in their bones, big cats – so they sleep to conserve their energy for the hunt.
Yes, even though all they’re going to be hunting is your feet on the way to the bathroom, the hair ties they steal from your counter, or maybe a fly that’s wandered into its lair.
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The 4-8 hours a day your cat is most likely to be active is around dawn and twilight – they’re crepuscular, if you want the official term.
Also important to note: cats don’t typically sleep very deeply.
They have to be ready to spring awake to defend themselves at a moment’s notice – if you’ll notice, they also typically position themselves in a way that makes it easy to leap into action.
They take lighter napes, usually in about 15-30 minute increments, slipping into deeper sleep for 5 minutes at a time.
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Hmm. Now that I know all of this, maybe being a cat wouldn’t be as restful as it seems.
Dogs are the way to go.
I should have guessed.
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You’ve probably never spent too so much time thinking about how often you touch your face until recently, but the truth is, most people do it more than we ever realized.
We scrub our faces, we play with our hair, we pick at our lips, we rub our eyes, and yes, we scratch our heads all the time.
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Why is touching our faces and heads so common? Why do humans tend to scratch their heads while they’re thinking?
It turns out that there are some pretty interesting answers!
According to San Diego Reader columnist Matthew Alice, some people think it’s as simple as a behavior passed down from our caveman ancestors.
“One popular explanation for any hand-to-head movements is that they’re frustrated aggression – a reversion to the natural movements of our rock-throwing ancestors.
If you watch a small child strike at something, he’ll raise an arm over his head and bring it forward in an arc.
It’s a natural, unstudied movement. Not much finesse, but for a caveman, it got the job done.”
He also reiterated a possible anthropological explanation as well:
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“When we’re wrestling with some knotty problem, we experience feelings of frustration, perhaps some anger, and before we know it, our hand flies up in the air.
But hold it. In these modern times, it’s not polite to bash the guy who asked the question.
So instead we deflect attention from the movement and scratch or rub our head or chin or neck.”
In a 2009 article, former FBI counterintelligence officer Joe Navarro put forth another observation.
“When we are under stress, our brain requires a certain amount of hand to body touching (hand wringing, forehead rubbing, temple massaging, lip touching, etc.).
These pacifiers serve to soothe the individual when there is negative limbic arousal [fear, stress, etc.].”
More recent research seems to bolster the stress theory, and even adds more layers to it.
They studied a bunch of rhesus monkeys and found that they scratched more often when they were stressed.
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So there you go – there are a bunch of reasons that scratching normal human behavior, so even if you think it’s weird, you’re not alone.
Which is pretty much the way things go with us humans.
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I was a heavy sleeper before I had kids. After years of sleeping next to a baby monitor, every last subconscious nerve on alert, not so much anymore.
There are people who sleep so deep it would take a Mack truck driving through the house to wake them up…though if these 15 people are any indication, that might not even do the trick.
I once slept through a tornado that happened about mile from my hotel.
My girlfriend woke me up at about 2am saying how scared she was of the storm and that the power went out and she was worried.
I told her while half awake to “leave me alone I’ll deal with it in the morning” and that “it’s just thunder I don’t know why you are freaking out” she was fuming at me when I woke up the next morning and found out that a tornado destroyed a high school not to far away.
I have slept through our fire alarm numerous times and a tree falling into our house.
That I slept so hard that my friends thought I was dead, they just kept shaking my nonresponsive body.
Why they did nothing about it is beyond me lol.
Not me, but a friend. He fell took a nap in his seat at a rock concert.
He first dozed off while Him was playing and slept all the way through Taking Back Sunday.
He was stone cold sober, just tired apparently.
I missed a whole-ass Saturday once in high school. I just got back from a band field trip where I didn’t sleep much for 4 or 5 days and I got home from the airport at about 3a.m. on Friday and I passed out.
I woke up and saw my clock said 6 I looked out the window and I thought that the sun was coming up so I went back to sleep, I woke up a few hours later at 8 and it was dark outside, I was confused cuz it should be bright at 8 am. I came out and my mom was making breakfast for dinner, which also confused me, and she asked if I was ready for school tomorrow.
I was like, “no it’s Sunday tomorrow.” As it turns out I slept 36 hours straight through Saturday and woke up Sunday night thinking it was Saturday morning, it is still my record for most hours slept.
Visiting an aunt when I was younger. I was taking a quick nap on her couch. While I was asleep a power line went down across her front yard. Literally 30 ft outside the window I was sleeping next to.
Multiple fire trucks. Fire men coming through the house to make sure everything was ok inside. Sirens alarms fire hoses, the works. I woke up after everything was over. Confused why the carpet was dirty and the yard burnt up.
Growing up we had an indoor cat. Occasionally we would let him out in the summer but usually not for too long. One day we forgot him outside. Around 2am he was crying at the door to be let in. My brother and parents heard it but were mostly still asleep. Soon another cat showed up and the two started fighting on our door step. If you were not aware, cats get very loud when they fight.
My brother , who was in high school at the time, jumped out of bed shouting “it’s kitty!”. Our cat’s name was kitty. My brother ran out to help kitty followed by my parents. When my brother opened the door, kitty jumped inside but my brother did not notice.
The other cat started to run away. The other cat looked very similar to kitty. So at 2am my brother was running down the street in his boxes chasing the neighbors cat while yelling “kitty, come back”. My parents were chasing my brother while yelling “that’s not kitty”.
I slept through the whole thing.
Boyfriend slept through thunder so loud it set off several car alarms in the parking garage right outside the window
Someone opening my front door, walking in, taking all my shit and leaving without a hitch.
It really sucked, but at least he took my school bag as well so I had a great excuse to not have my homework done the next day.
When I was pregnant with my 3rd baby, I woke up at midnight to the popping sound of my water breaking. I got up and went to the bathroom and confirmed that my water had in fact broken. Got a towel and went back to bed.
Woke up at 5:30 in the morning with some big contractions and figured I better get to the hospital. Went to the hospital dilated to 9 and baby was born 20 minutes later. So labor. I slept through my labor and transition.
Highly recommended.
I fell asleep in my dorm room while in college. I lived alone. They had a fire drill at like 3AM. The fire fighters came, opened each room and checked on us. The fire alarm did not wake me up. They tried to shake me awake. Nothing.
So they called an ambulance. Do those guys got a stretcher, loaded me up onto it and started taking me down three flights of stairs. Once we were on the fourth flight of steps I woke up and tried to jump off the stretcher. Because….well I thought I was being kidnapped.
The ambulance guys still tried to get me to go to the hospital because they thought I was on drugs because I did not wake up. The truth of the matter is, that is just the way I sleep.
I have 5 different alarm clocks set to wake me up but sometimes I still do not hear them while asleep. None of my doctors know what to do about it other than tell me to buy more alarm clocks. This affects my jobs badly. I hate it.
A 6.8 mag. Earthquake while I was living near the bay area where it hit…
Everyone else woke up because of the heavy rumbling but I staying asleep, meanwhile I would wake up to someone walking in the hallway in the morning with my door shut…
I woke up and saw caution tape on my lawn between my house and the neighbor’s.
Went outside and then saw a couple officers.
Turned out someone was shot in my yard.
I didn’t hear the shooting, the investigation, the arrest, or the cleanup of the scene after.
The kid that got shot lived. Turned out my neighbor’s teenage son got into an argument with a friend and shot them.
I once slept through the process of my grandmother calling 911 for my grandfather, the ambulance coming to our house with sirens blaring, the process of getting him loaded into the ambulance and leaving.
I woke up the next morning like “Where did gramps go?” I didn’t even know why he had to be taken to the hospital. I think it was a broken hip.
I slept thought two days and nobody noticed.
Missed Thanksgiving.
I was 9 at the time.
This just blows my mind!
If you’re a heavy sleeper, please share your similar stories with us in the comments!
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This should be interesting…
When it comes to relationships, marriages, and cheating, the people who break up the marriage or relationship are rarely the ones outside of it – though they usually get more than their fair share of the blame.
Of course, if people were happy in their relationship, they wouldn’t be cheating. If things were fine to begin with, they couldn’t have been tempted away.
Maybe the other person didn’t even know.
If you’ve always been curious about the other side of the story, these 15 homewreckers are willing to tell their truths.
Fell in love with my best friend at 17. He was in a multi-year long relationship with an amazing woman, but I didn’t really know her. He told me everything I wanted to hear and was the first man I’d met to express that kind of interest in me. I was young, dumb, and insecure.
So I fell for it (and all the bullshit he spewed about the reasons his girlfriend wouldn’t be mad, he was protecting her mental health by staying with her even though they were totally done, she was unstable, etc.) and we were in a full-blown romantic and sexual affair for a few months. He ended up kind of ghosting me after that, gaslighting me about the seriousness of our relationship, and continuing to date his girlfriend until she left him for another guy (good riddance lol).
I struggled with trust and self-loathing for a long time after that. Ended up dedicating my life to researching and treating infidelity/relational challenges. I now work as a couples therapist and am very passionate about what I do!
I want to someday publish research on the psychological rationalization and aftermath that extra-dyadic partners (homewreckers) experience.
For how common it is, there is virtually no research about that third person, what gets them to participate, and the impact.
I am also in a loving relationship with a great guy.
Found out while in labor my child’s father had another woman pregnant and was marrying her. I actually waited 5 months to tell her anything.
She didn’t believe me until i sent her a copy of the DNA test. She ended up thanking me. We talk now and hope to raise the kids knowing each other.
He’s not too happy.
I messed around with a girl a handful of times until I found out her boyfriend was in Iraq. She’d left her laptop up when she was in the shower.
I’m kinda a POS and decided to snoop around for nudes, found her email and the emails from her boyfriend. Talking about marriage after he gets back.
I copied down his email address and then wrote him later. Told him everything. Boy was he pissed.
He dumped her. Him and I are going to a Football game in November.
Had an affair with a married man. Yes, I knew he was married. Yes, I knew his wife. Yes, I thought she didn’t understand him and we were true love.
Yes, he ended up cheating on me with a married woman who ended up leaving her 2nd husband for my ex. They are still together.
It was the worst thing I ever did and I hope when I die his ex-wife joyfully dances on my grave; I deserve it.
I hooked up with an older woman once and her husband walked in on us. I immediately left while they were crying and screaming at each other. Found out a couple weeks later that the husband killed himself because of it.
To this day I have supreme guilt and slight trust issues. But the person I’m with now makes it better, I love her to the moon and back.
I hooked up with a roommate/landlady, dumb move off the bat I know, because she told me they were in an open relationship. I confirmed with her bf that they were in an open relationship but neither of them told me that roommates were kinda off the table. I went ahead with it because it was the first time a woman showed was into me without me trying. It was a great confidence boost and I hadn’t had many before.
We got together a few times before I found out the bf wasn’t cool with it, broke it off because I felt lied to, but the damage was done. The entire vibe of the house changed, it was a pretty big house with multiple rooms being rented out. At the start we had house meals sometimes and game nights, just a general friendly vibe. Afterwards we all kinda isolated and I apologized to the guy, I didn’t know exactly what was going on and I felt terrible about it.
In the end the great place I had found with awesome people just fell apart and its probably the biggest regret of my life, everyone moved out and I hope the couple were able to work things out without me being there as a reminder.
Ughhh….here it goes. Slept with a married man for years. He lied and told me they were divorcing as soon as the kids got out of high school and they were only together for the kids.
She ended up showing up at my work and confronted me….of course I told the truth and holy shit did my life suck after that. I fell for the lies hook, line and sinker. Turns out he was a sex addict. Had been with many, many women and I guess I was the only one dumb enough to tell her the truth. I was know as the “home wrecker” and 20 years later it still gets thrown in my face.
Funny how the one that had vows with her and children got zero punishment, yet I got bashed and shunned for falling for his BS. I was only a teenager (19) then. It literally destroyed my life and self-esteem. He was a professional manipulator that took advantage of a young naive girl and wrecked her young world. God, I hate that man.
I haven’t dated a woman for over a year and a half now. Can’t trust.
Found out she had a fiancee and she made a huge host of false accusations, I had text messages from her, emails, hours long incoming calls from her, etc etc…. all proving that no i wasn’t what she was making me out to be.
All because she wanted to salvage her relationship with her fiancee… whom I had no idea existed.
I was so in to a coworker in college, and we started hanging out after work smoking and cruising even though we both knew he had a gf. It was platonic, until it wasn’t.
He eventually left his girl but by then I had realized if he would do that to his long term Gf why wouldn’t he do it to me at some point? Even a year later when we reconnected after both dating other people, I still couldn’t get over that thought.
Never did officially date him, which is too bad because I did really like him.
I’ve been with a guy once who only told me he had a girlfriend after we hooked up.
I hate people who cheat so I told him to tell his girlfriend or I’d do it. He did it himself luckily.
Had a regular thing with a girl over the course of a summer. We got along well in and out of the bedroom, but we were both on the same page about it being just a casual fling.
One night in the midst of getting it on, she told me she had started dating another girl a couple weeks ago. That was the last time we met up. It made me wonder if she had been dating someone else too and just lied about it.
I know I was complicit in it, but I felt like I couldn’t trust her anymore and it was hard to be friends after that. We stopped talking soon after.
Lived with a guy for several years that was sort of the home wrecker. Basically he was shagging a married chick that had 2 kids. She would hang out at our place a lot. Eventually roomie caught the feels for her and gave her an ultimatum: to leave her husband and be with him.
Well as you can all guess she did not. So he called her husband and told him about the affair. In the end her and her husband are still together and my roomie got lost in drugs culminating with me discovering him cooking meth in his room. He later got arrested and spent a few years in TDOC custody.
I no longer speak to either.
I “rescued” a girl from a “horrible” boyfriend. I was 21, just moved to the big Apple, and single as hell. To me it was his fault, looking back at how it all went down I realized, he might have sucked but he didn’t do anything to harm her and she was to chicken to call it off, so I was the exit plan.
I learned not to mess with anyone’s personal life like that and if someone truly wants to be with you, they would do things the right way.
Met a girl and were basically just friendly acquaintances for a while; as I knew she was dating someone. She was friends with someone from work and would come to after work get togethers (we worked at a bar so it was usually early morning breakfasts).
There was definitely some chemistry but never pursued. Absolutely stunning, but also 10/10 crazy as I found out.
Heard through that mutual friend relationship had ended and asked her out, and we started seeing each other. Four months later she’s essentially living with me since I started working out of town Mon-Fri and my place was nicer with no roommates. So I’d get back on Friday and go for dinner, drinks, concerts , events, almost every night I was in town. It seemed amazing.
Around Christmas she has a friend visiting from out of town and I take them out for dinner and drinks. After a few her friend is getting super handsy, trying to sit on my lap, etc… My ‘girlfriend’ isn’t saying anything but obviously getting annoyed; and finally when her friend straight out grabs my junk she finally says ‘enough’.
Her friend responded with; ‘what, you already have a boyfriend; why can’t I play with <me> too; at least I’m single’. Confusion leads to clarity. Take ‘girlfriend’ aside and she confesses that her boyfriend didn’t break up with her, just moved out of town for school and would be back in the spring and they committed to ‘waiting for each other’. But then she and I started seeing each other and she figured she could just have some fun on the side. Meanwhile by this point it had been around 5 months, I’ve paid her tuition for the next semester, she’s basically living in my condo and we had previously had conversations about me getting a house and her actually moving in.
So I tell her I won’t make a scene or anything, but I’d be dropping them off at her place after the bar and she wouldn’t see me again. She starts crying, I feel like an asshole despite everything. I go to drop her off and she says she’ll do anything if I don’t dump her. I told her to tell her boyfriend about us and end it, and maybe we can talk. Which she actually did end that relationship, and despite my better judgement (thinking with my nether regions) we stayed together. I’m embarrassed to say I was completely head over heels at this point.
About four months later it’s summertime, and she sends me a Facebook message while I’m out of town working saying she’s gotten a last minute job offer to work the summer out of town. It’s midweek and I say that I’ll be back Friday and I can go with her and help her get set up over the weekend, and take a few days off the next week. She says she’s already taken the job and leaving that night. I’m obviously put off by this, mention that we’ve had trust issues and this is extremely sudden. She explains it’s in her field and just a summer contact and she can stay with her grandparents in that city, whom I had met previously.
So, about two weeks in I had heard from her once. I realize that I didn’t really trust her, and probably never could. I ended it, when she got back after the summer she tried to get things started again, but in under a month she was living with another dude that she now has four kids with; so I think it was fairly transparent.
Given how much I cared about her and the original betrayal I couldn’t really trust women I was dating after that. The next two relationships I had did not go anywhere due to my own insecurities. Which was super f**ked up since I had been very self confident before that. I was trophy pretty (did bodybuilding shows) was fairly well off (6 figure income) and thought of myself as a fairly decent person.
If my wife hadn’t been super detached when we started dating I probably would have not invested much effort into this relationship as well. It was that she didn’t seem overly interested that kept the relationship going and allowed me to work through some of that.
I fell in love with a guy who had been dating his girlfriend for 4 years. When I met him for the first time at the fast food place where we worked, something inside me clicked into place. “This one,” it said. I shrugged off the feeling and ignored him for 3 months. Then we started hanging out when a mutual friend demanded both of us spend time with her. That’s when I fell for him.
He was kind, generous, thoughtful, patient, soft-spoken… and in a long-term long-distance relationship! SHE went to a different college 3 hours away and couldn’t make time for him, apparently. He had a lot of time to spare and asked me to spend it w him. I tried to convince myself to not see him, to not text him, not spend time with him alone, but it didn’t work. I missed him too much. And he seemed to miss me too?? What???
We spent the school semester and the summer hanging out, being “just friends,” and being the cutest couple that never was a couple. We spent hours talking, he introduced me to all his friends and family, and any time he wasn’t with HER, he was with me.
He broke up w her out of the blue one Sunday that summer. I kissed him on Wednesday. And he got back together with her on Friday, with an “I’m sorry” to soothe me… In the end, I can only blame myself. He had never said he “like” liked me. He never tried to make things sexual between us. He hadn’t promised me anything except that our friendship would never end. In the end, I hurt myself and he lived his life.
The result? I got super dramatic and swore I wouldn’t love anyone else. Now I’m afraid that’s probably true because in the 7 years that have passed since then, it’s hard for me to even have a crush on someone. I’m trying to recover from my self-sabotage but honestly idk if I can do it.
It’s definitely interesting to think about, right?
Have you ever been the homewrecker? Or been with a homewrecker?
Tell us your truth in the comments!
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Sometimes, it’s the little things that matter the most.
And sometimes those little things are facts that most people don’t know about that could end up saving their lives one day.
Hey, we only get one shot at this life thing, so we might as well soak up all the knowledge we can, especially when it comes to our health and well-being.
Here’s what AskReddit users had to say about little-known facts that could save lives.
“Take Benadryl to the forest with you.
The forest is full of life forms you do not usually come into contact with, in other words a treasure trove of allergies you didn’t know you had.
A hiker carrying Benadryl saved my brothers best friend after he stepped in a hornet’s nest with no known allergies.”
“If you think you’re being followed, take four lefts or four rights.
You went in a circle. If they are still behind you, you’re being followed.
Call 911.”
“If something stinks like fish or something similar around your room or around your house, check the outlets, most likely they are overheating.
Smell around the house and find the stench. If it goes unnoticed there will most likely be an electrical fire.
Almost happened to me, in the bathroom.”
“If you see someone drowning give them something to grab onto.
If you get close to them they will instinctively grab onto you, endangering both of you.”
“Essential oils have a high risk of causing seizures, organ failure, and death in children and pets.
So it’s best to just not use them around them at all.”
“Always know the address where you are at, especially if you are in a hotel or on vacation.
I work emergency services and the it can literally be the difference between life and death in some cases especially if you cannot stay on the phone!
Stay safe out there people!”
“If you’re lost in the wild, don’t follow herbivores thinking they’ll show you to food while also not attacking you.
Herbivores WILL attack you if they feel threatened, and the difference between them and carnivores is that if you prove to a carnivore you’re not worth it then they’ll leave you alone, but if a herbivore attacks you, it means it’s downright angry at you.
Practically nothing you do will make it stop. Just don’t follow dangerous animals in general, whether they’re carnivores, herbivores or omnivores.”
“If you fall into water with your pants on, you can use them as a makeshift life vest.
Kick off your shoes. Remove your pants (this is the hardest part). Tie the pant legs together with a square knot (two overhand knots). Place the knot behind your head. Grab the pant opening on both sides, lift it out of the water, then slap it down on the water surface. This will capture air in the pants.
Repeat until they inflate enough. Pinch the opening closed and hold it with one hand.”
“If your stomach ever gets stabbed/shot, you’ll get super hungry and the last thing you should do is eat.
When you eat, blood rushes to your stomach so eating when it’s been cut could lead you to bleed out.”
“If a service dog comes up to you without it’s human, follow it.
They are trained to find a person to bring back and assist if their owner needs assistance that’s out of their paws.”
“You can die from carbon monoxide just by riding on or near the back of a boat.
Happens to people all the time.”
“This might seem like an obvious one but kids who wear darker colored coats/clothes are much more likely to be kidnapped.
The brighter your kids clothing the 1. Less likely it is that they’ll be kidnapped and 2. The more likely it is that the kidnapping event will be witnessed And therefore stopped or -at the very least- the investigation will start sooner, and you’re more likely to get a description of the kidnapper.
So basically, make your kids wear bright colors. Make them get bright winter coats and neon backpacks. Orange, Red, bright pink, and lime green are supposed to be the best colors.”
“There are 22 million people in the U.S. right now who have sleep apnea, yet only 20% of them will seek treatment. If neglected, sleep apnea leads to memory loss, cognitive damage, chronic fatigue, and even heart attacks.
When we are awake, our throat muscles contract to keep the air passage in our throats open. However, when we sleep, our throat muscles relax, and if your throat is narrow enough, the sagging tissue can block your air passage. The most noticeable symptom of a blocked airway is SNORING.
If you snore, go to your ENT and ask for a sleep study, especially if you are overweight or over the age of 50, as these conditions dramatically increase your chances of having sleep apnea.
You’re probably wondering how sleep apnea can cause long term memory loss and heart attacks.
When your air passage closes, your brain goes into emergency mode to open your throat. Unfortunately, this also will yank you out of REM sleep. The lack of quality sleep over time can cause memory loss and fatigue. A different mechanism causes heart attacks.
When your air passage closes, your heart is suddenly forced to work harder to circulate the little oxygen left in your blood. This event can occur hundreds of times a night, and it is very stressful on your heart. Over time, this can trigger a heart attack.
Do yourself a favor and see your doctor about sleep apnea. By doing so, you’ll improve your memory, stop waking up exhausted, have a healthier heart, and you’ll won’t snore anymore.
The difference is night and day. I promise.”
“If you’re ever in legal problems abroad, do nothing, say nothing and sign nothing until a diplomatic agent from your embassy or consulate is with you.
It may mean being stuck in a holding cell for days, but it’s better than what you can potentially get yourself in.”
How about you?
Do you know any facts that might help save a life?
If so, please share them with us in the comments! Thanks!
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Doctors have a tough job. Actually, EVERYONE who works in health care has a tough job when it comes down to it.
And they get to see every aspect of our society at their jobs. They deal with the good, the bad, and the ugly on a daily basis.
And that’s why these stories are gonna be very informative!
Here’s what AskReddit users had to say about the interesting patients they’ve dealt with.
“I once cared for a repeat self-harmer that put a knife into their neck, regretted it, taped it in place … and BICYCLED TO THE HOSPITAL. A few miles, past carfuls of normal people. Parked the bike, walked in to triage to check in.
Through a waiting room of grannies and kids and men with chest pain. With a kitchen paring knife duct taped in place sticking straight out.
CT scan later showed that the tip of the blade was 2mm from the carotid artery.”
“60~70 year old lady arrives at Trauma ER.
She was being CHASED BY A COW, running for her life and fell off a 2 meter ledge. She had several fractures, but only really complained about her leg, and tried to get up and walk away several times telling us she was fine.
Initially we thought she had some head trauma and was completely disoriented, but it turns out she was just that stubborn. She was hospitalized for awhile and had a good recovery.
I do wonder if the cow fell of the cliff as well…”
“In my Obgyn clerkship, this woman came in pretty hesitantly at the urging of her girlfriend for pelvic pain. She apologized if she was wasting our time and said it was probably nothing.
This poor lady had a cyst THE SIZE OF MY HEAD on her ovary that caused torsion (twisting and cutting off blood supply). She was rushed into surgery but lost that ovary. People say it’s more painful than child birth and here she was, apologizing to us.”
“A patient can in through the ER for a series of x-rays. He claimed to have fallen down some stairs and we basically had to x-ray both legs from the knee down.
I have never met a bigger, whinier baby. He moaned and groaned and flinched at the lightest touch, refused to hold still, would not straighten his legs, complained about the table and xray cassette being too hard…
There were no visible injuries aside from a few scrapes and nothing obvious on the x-rays. He was still convinced that he would never walk again and had broken both legs irreparably.
Funniest part was that we had a different patient come in on the same day with a similar complaint. He actually had fractures in both legs and fee.”
“Young trauma patient ~17yo T-boned by a garbage truck.
Moving him on to the CT table he said “OW” and silent tears cane down his face. Then he apologized for complaining, and thanked us profusely. Turns out he had a few broken vertebrae, broke half his ribs, and had a fractured hip and clavicle.
Kid whimpered a few times during the CTs, and again apologized when we came back in. Like dude, you could scream in my face and I’d understand.”
“Patient presented to the Trauma ER with an 18 inch machete blade firmly implanted across the top of his skull.
He was driven to the hospital by a friend, walked on his own into the ER, had totally normal vital signs in triage, a slight steady trickle of blood from the wound, denied pain and was in no apparent distress.
Due to a mass trauma event, the ER was insanely busy, so it took us a while to get him a bed. In the meantime, he calmly sat in the waiting area, (nearest to the Triage station so we could keep an eye on him) and watched TV, as staff were running around like crazy, phones ringing nonstop, patients b*tching about the wait time to be seen and exhibiting other types of tomfoolery.
Machete man just sat there tranquilly exhibiting his true Zen mastery of machete head wounds.
All these years later, I can still see him with that machete lodged in his skull. He had an uncomplicated treatment course and suffered no impairment from the injury. He was cooperative and nice to all his care givers.
He also profusely thanked us for caring for him. Probably one of the few that did that night!”
“Guy was about 30 years old with a decent laceration on his face but nothing major, stated he was jumped by some guy in the bushes out of nowhere and had to fight him off.
He didn’t really complain about his laceration too much and stated his back was a little sore and that he feels fine and didn’t want to go to the hospital. Vitals all looked good and he appeared fine. But Just to be safe I wanted to give his whole body a look over to be sure he didn’t have any other lacerations and God was I glad I did.
As I pulled this guy’s large coat off (winter at night) I see a knife protruding from his lower right back with a slow but steady stream of blood coming out. Guy was as shocked as I was.”
“A woman walks into the ER walking very bow legged. She seems calm and explains that she has some swelling in the right side of her external genitals. She thought she my have had an infected cyst and she drove herself hoping for help draining it and antibiotics.
We didn’t think much of it, it clearly wasn’t a rush to the front of the line emergency. So an hour or so later they bring her in to a room. She has a fever and high blood pressure but still calm and stoic.
So the NP gets her story and has her remove her pants and underwear and cover with a sheet. She is apologizing profusely about not being able to clean herself very well before coming in.
When NP pulls up the sheet her l*b*a is swollen to the size of a coconut. She had an abscess that was starting to cause sepsis.
The only emotion she showed was embarrassment about not being able to clean herself because of the pain and a single tear down her face when the wheeled her to the ER.”
“There was a guy who attempted suicide by firing a nail gun into his ear. I took care of him in the ICU and he remembers everything. He’d been depressed a long time and decided to end it.
Nailed himself, sat around a while before deciding he didn’t want to die, drove himself to the ER, walked inside and fainted. It was so weird how stoic he was about it all.”
“As a med student, I was third row in helping to try to code a drying GI bleeder.
People who have end stage liver disease don’t make clotting factor well, and also have anatomical difficulty that leads to big, ropy vulnerable blood vessels in the stomach that are at risk to bleed. And when people bleed inside the stomach you can’t hold pressure – you simply must get them stable enough to have life saving endoscopy and clipping of the bleeder.
This guy was Exorcist level vomiting bright red blood, he was exsanguinating into his stomach and we couldn’t get his blood pressure to stabilize enough to get a scope into him for a while. There were runners bringing us coolers of emergency release blood, and the splatters and pools of blood he had vomited reached across the hall.
When we finally got him packed up to go to the endo suite, the family next door quietly apologized for taking our time for their chronic non-emergent issue and could they go home now?”
“We had a patient recently who was palliative (expected to die naturally). His body functions were only at about 10%, he wasn’t eating or drinking and he wasn’t peeing or defecating anymore. He just laid in bed with his eyes closed breathing.
When people get to this point usually the only care we provide is for comfort vs. Sparing life. So we dont give people food or water because they are usually unconscious and more likely to choke and be harmed.
This patient’s daughter was some big shot lawyer from the US and when she saw that we weren’t feeding her dad she started recording everything we did and said to her and then phoned the police. I remember a police officer coming to the unit, asking to speak to me (the most responsible nurse at the time) and asking me why I was withholding food.
I explained to the officer that I had physicians orders to withhold food, and that the patient was at a severe aspiration risk. The police officer was like “cool, case closed”, and left.
The daughter was unfortunately banned from the hospital premises by management for interfering with patient care.”
“The underdramatic are more interesting:
Mid-70s woman, generally healthy, presents to outpatient neurology clinic with an altered gait. Dragging feet more than usual, feels she’s tripping when walking up steps. Family describes tendency to repeat herself more often.
Neurological examination normal other than a slightly odd, slow and dragging gait. Honestly looks like she’s “faking” an odd gait, suspect malingering but above average amounts of liquid in the areas surrounding the brain can give these types of symptoms.
CT scan the brain, almost half of her brain was smushed to the other side and filled up with water (massive sub-arachnoid cyst, think intracranial water ballon), probably been growing for years. No other symptoms, she only came in to our clinic since her daughters were worried about her memory.
Made a full recovery by draining the fluid, still makes me wonder how many people out there are walking around with half a smushed brain without knowing about it.”
“Overdramatic: Tons of stories but the most recent was a patient demanding a heavy Percocet Rx (far more than I would prescribe even post-surgery) after having a nasal swab for COVID-19 completed.
I get that it’s temporarily uncomfortable as I’ve had it done several times myself but no way was I buying him writhing around screeching about how much pain he was in. When the patient eventually realized I wasn’t budging it was as if someone had flipped a switch and he “miraculously” recovered.
Underdramatic: Patient tried extracting his own tooth and inadvertently pushed it up through the abscess and into his right maxillary sinus. To my surprise he adamantly declined even local anesthesia no matter how much my staff was pleading with him.
Patient autonomy is a grey area here in the US (given how insanely litigious everything is) so after receiving clearance/written consent to proceed with treatment I figured he’d just have to learn the hard way. Instead of performing a lateral window root tip retrieval I took a surgical suction tip/curette and removed all three fragments through the alveolar ridge warning him several times beforehand that it would hurt like hell.
The guy never even flinched. I was able to complete the procedure, debride the infection and graft the floor of the sinus with membrane/sutures without incident.
Go figure.”
How about you?
Do you work in healthcare?
If so, tell us about some of the interesting patients you’ve had to deal with. We look forward to hearing from you!
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There are great things about being an adult, just like there are great things about being a kid – but there are also prices to pay for growing up, something children never really realize until it’s too late.
Here are 16 unexpectedly tough things about growing up – lessons you don’t learn until it’s too late to go back.
Money adds up quick.
You see something cheap that you want as a teen and think “It’s only $5.”
Yes it is only $5, but when the end of the month comes, all those “only” purchases add up really fast.
This didn’t fully hit me until I had to clean a massive amount of puke out of the shower because I took a shower while I was sick and just absolutely lost my guts.
Being a kid, someone else would have cleaned that up for me because I was sick, but as an adult, with a crazy high fever feeling absolutely terrible, I had to get on my knees and clean it up.
There was no “I dont feel good” excuse, no “someone else can do it” I had to clean it up or it would get even more disgusting and clog my pipes…
People expect you to know what you’re doing.
A $1000 pay check isn’t nearly as exciting as an adult.
By the time you’re 30 you are going to be lucky to see whatever close friends you have left more than a couple times a year.
And it’s considered normal.
Forgetting your age is a real problem.
The only people who remind me how old I am are my kids, and i often have to double check.
I used to ask my parents how old they were and they always “cant remember” or said “21” and it confused me.
I get it now.
Everything you buy starts to own you.
Got a new car? You now have to make a monthly payment, buy insurance, fill with gas, get inspected, change the oil, apply for a street parking permit, ect.
Just bought a house? Well on top of your mortgage, insurance and property taxes you now have to: mow your lawn, clean the building, maintain all of your appliances, repair damages when they are small so you don’t have to spend as much, possibly follow HOA rules, ect.
I just wanna get drunk and play video games, but I can’t because my refrigerator broke 2 days ago, and there’s a shortage of fridges because of COVID. So I had to borrow my college aged cousins mini-fridge. So now I’m on back order for 3 weeks waiting for something I just spent $2500 on to arrive.
Edit: a lot of people are bringing up the cost of the fridge. I’m paying for a high quality fridge that’s pretty big because my household needs that along with shipping and install. I am not happy about the price either but that was the quickest delivery option I had for something that fits my needs while also fitting the look of my kitchen. Normally I’d wait for a holiday sale to get a big appliance but this was an emergency, and I’ll eat the cost for convenience sake. I can afford the cost of the fridge and I’m not going to go into the hole over this amount, but I’d rather spend that money on almost anything else. Like I said not a lot of things in stock during this pandemic.
One day your body will betray you.
You don’t fundamentally change, you are still you, even if you are older. It’s the same you, you just need to survive in the adult world.
You don’t gain adult powers, you just have to do adult things.
Dental care.
It’s so damn expensive if you let your teeth degrade.
Please floss my dudes.
Adult freedom and responsibilities are a double edge sword. You now can make pretty much all your own life choices, from the small to the large! You can set out and make your own destiny.
But you are also responsible for the outcome of all those choices – both good and bad. It’s your life now, you don’t have anyone to tell you what the right choice is. You can call friends and family for advice and there are lots of scammers out there who will tell you 110% they know the answer if you pay them.
But ultimately it is YOUR decision. You either make a choice or don’t (and not choosing is still a choice) then have to live with the consequences for the rest of your life.
Even as a teen, you are present with choices as you start to get some of your own freedom.
But as an adult – yep it’s all up to you, both good and bad.
You will make mistakes. You will be scared into indecision. But you should face up to hose mistakes and move on. Eventually you will have to make a choice.
But with some fore thinking, planning, hard work and a bit of dumb luck – you can hopefully steer your life in a positive direction.
And it’s never too late for a second chance or to try a different direction.
When all the cliches that used to piss you off start making sense and meaning something, but you can’t explain it to younger people because they haven’t lived that life experience yet.
By and large, being an adult is awesome compared to being a teenager. No one tells you what to do, how to act, when to go to bed, or when to get up. People take you seriously. You can ask a doctor for sleeping pills and he’ll give them to you, you can buy all the booze you want, drive the car you want, and get credit cards with incredible credit limits.
The downside is: No one tells you what to do, how to act, when to go to bed, or when to get up. People take you seriously. You can ask a doctor for sleeping pills and he’ll give them to you. You can buy all the booze you want, drive the car you want, and get credit cards with incredible credit limits.
In short, being an adult comes with the responsibilities of adulthood and if you choose to ignore those responsibilities the consequences will be a lot more devastating for the rest of your life than when you were a teen. They can totally ruin your life and the lives of the people around you if you f*ck up.
The importance and scarcity of time. Your “you time” gets seriously reduced as you get older and your other responsibilities mount up. I used to think that spending half an hour cleaning 3 times a week was the worst thing ever. Now I spend about an hour cleaning pretty much every day. Between work, maintaining a house, and raising kids, the amount of you time gets reduced to.minutes a day. Anything else you want to do means sacrificing sleep.
The other thing is how true “time=money” actually is. Simply existing and breathing costs money. Food, rent, bills, transport cost money. Often the difference between happiness and unhappiness for me was comfortably making it to my next paycheck.
I swear when I was a teenager I could eat absolute garbage and stay slim because I was just naturally active throughout the day.
Now being an adult I’m fat as f*ck because after a full day at work and other “adulting” responsibilities it’s so hard to get the motivation to work out.
Waking up and just aching for non discernible reason other than having slept ‘a bit funny’.
Oh, and the 3 day hangovers that make it barely worth drinking more than a couple glasses of wine
We’re all here now, so we might as well make the best of it!
What’s your least favorite thing about being an adult? Let’s commiserate in the comments.
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When you’re younger, it’s easy to say “d*mn the man!” but listen – the older you get, the more responsibilities you take on, it can be hard to remember why you thought the man was so bad.
Or, like these 16 people, you might not even realize you’ve crossed over to the dark side until it’s too late.
When I was a kid, I railed against smoking weed.
I would tell people about how it makes people unfocused, unmotivated, and lazy.
I even participated in school projects where we made videos about how bad marijuana is.
Now, I smoke pretty much every day.
Many of my friends tried weed for the first time because of me.
And I’ve become very unfocused, unproductive, and lazy.
When I realised I’m the boss now.
I don’t really have a boss. It’s weird.
The owner is ostensibly my boss, but he won’t manage the company.
Therefore each area manager is the boss. I’m way too immature for this.
It was when I had earned degrees in a useful field, took a job working first shift Monday through Friday starting at 7:30am, and bought a house in the suburbs.
Twenty year old me would be spinning in his grave.
Reddit: Look at these Facebook pages stealing videos off of creators!
At 15 I was a devout Christian. I even went to camps and won theology competitions. If you showed me a picture of a naked lady, I’d cover my eyes and feel extra sinful that day.
Now I’m agnostic and I haven’t been inside a church for years.
I’m thinking about starting my tattoo sleeves soon and I fap regularly.
Total 180.
When I hated my dad’s abuse for years and years and years to a point where I developed CPTSD, and as an adult I swore I’d never let myself get to that point.
But just last month my best friend of six years blocked me on everything one day, and I found she had made a post on askreddit expressing how disrespectful, toxic, and stressful I was. She had told me at one point, “You know, you seem to really hate the abuse you’ve been through, but you don’t realize how similar you are to him.”
I’ve been spending the last two months being unable to sleep knowing that I let myself get to this point and I’ve just been isolating myself from people now. I’ve been beating myself up everyday over those words, because even though they hurt a lot, there was a reason she ran off from speaking to me.
Told my parents all the time that their bloodline ends with me. They’d better hope my brother has all the grandkids, because I wont.
I have a 17 year old daughter and a 14 year old son. I sure showed them!
Are you asking if I’m a corporate shill?
Because yes I am.
Ever get a letter from a corporation politely telling you to f*ck off?
I write those.
When a priest says covid is god’s punishment for sins and gets positively tested for covid after that.
I used to be absolutely against swearing and now I can’t go two sentences without saying a curse.
Mine is music related, I used to mock many different kinds of music for being what I deemed lesser forms of music. Mainly because I play many instruments and am partial to music made solely with instruments. I have always enjoyed other forms of music, but I never would advocate for it, or admit that I liked it, simply because I didn’t want to be associated with the world surrounding them, the fans and so on.
Now I make and actively participate in nearly all the kinds of music I mocked before.
Funny enough, it was the Lego Movie that helped me see the different side of things with my ignorant perspective, as they describe a scene in the movie where the child is explaining why the creativity that looks chaotic is not necessarily bad, it hit me hard, because much like the overlord (Will Ferrell) I too sought order and structure amidst what I deemed was musical chaos. Now, I see the joy of inspiration that one form of music can leave on others as well as how many different influences a musician can have.
That is my “little” story, I’m cool with it now, but had I met my 18 year old self, I would have probably called me a sell-out.
I have become that which I sought to destroy.
When I realized I was arguing online with some idiot over something I really didn’t give a crap about.
Always tried to be more kind and positive because of petty argumentative assholes online but then I became that d*ckhead.
2020 has been a pretty wild ride.
Used to utterly hate Taco Bell.
Always threw a fit whenever we’d eat there as kids.
Then as a young adult, i discovered the steak quesarito.
Sorry bros.
When to grad school for geophysics and my thesis was geothermal energy resource scouting. Immediately was offered a very high paying job for the oil and gas industry.
I ended up turning it down to stay green, but oh man that was a tough decision.
This year, the school bus drop off is right in front of my house. The other day some kids got off the bus and cut across my lawn.
I got irrationally upset. Then I realized I have turned into my father.
I became a doctor.
I hate doctors.
Oh, how the mighty have fallen!
Tell us your own sob story in the comments, and make us feel better about ourselves.
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