What's your silly story about your illness?
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 😁
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.
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 🙂