Story archives - tag: "health"

Laura Briggs

Shortly after having chemotherapy to end the ectopic pregnancy, the scan revealed that the baby was in fact inside the womb with a beating heart.

tags: miscarriage pregnancy health grief hospital [add]

2011-10-27 13:24:33 / Rating: 253.75 /

Наташа Б.

As I cried in front of the cash register at CVS, a woman pitied me for having my college health insurance expire the day before and paid the $200 fee for my medication, saying "Christmas came early this year."

tags: health insurance saint [add]

2011-09-02 10:19:01 / Rating: 782 /

Emmy

Note to self: do not eat raw meat.

tags: worms health sickness [add]

2010-06-25 11:10:46 / Rating: 206.75 /

backedup

I worked 8 hours today stocking a store, complete with lifting, bending, stretching, only to throw out my back while flushing the toilet at home.

tags: humor health pain toilet [add]

2010-05-11 14:40:03 / Rating: 463 /

myfairmaybe

When he told his four-year-old daughter that the doctor just needed to look at her eyes to make sure they were okay, she whispered, "Will he put them back in when he's done looking at them?"

tags: child eyes health humor misunderstanding [add]

2010-03-05 14:15:31 / Rating: 731.75 /

Just Ali

I had hoped that the first time my doctor handed me a sonogram picture it would be of my baby, not of a golf ball sized fibroid tumor on my uterus.

tags: pregnancy health infertility [add]

2008-09-26 15:44:21 / Rating: 415 /

Kirsty

"What on earth is that?" are not words that inspire confidence when you're undergoing a colonoscopy.

tags: medical humour health [add]

2008-09-15 11:45:53 / Rating: 539.75 /

Aj

My doctor told me i was 2 lbs. overweight and suggested I join Weight Watchers.

tags: humor health doctor [add]

2008-06-03 15:36:47 / Rating: 438 /

Stephanie E.

I went to the emergency room and was diagnosed with a headache.

tags: humor health irony [add]

2008-04-07 14:21:43 / Rating: 460 /

Snarkmeister

It really screwed up my day when the dermatologist told me that the weird scar on my nose was actually skin cancer.

tags: health cancer bummer [add]

2008-03-07 16:53:20 / Rating: 501.25 /

Tammii

Because it's difficult for me to bend, I cleaned the base of the shower with a pot scrubber tied to the bottom of my walking stick

tags: cleaning housework health shower [add]

2008-02-05 10:38:05 / Rating: 417.25 /

Lo and behold

I am still not sure if the IBS, stunted growth, amenorrhea, depression, and anxiety I now am cursed with were worth the flawless skin I sought so passionately.

tags: medicine health skin porcelain living hell [add]

2007-11-26 12:38:11 / Rating: 368 /

I Heart Chocolate

I never liked food containing anything soy until the realization that they help me lose weight.

tags: health epiphany food body image [add]

2007-09-13 13:51:16 / Rating: 456.25 /

Mag

I was reading Calvin and Hobbes, drinking orange juice, when the sudden seizure ripped through me like a hyperactive kid with a bag of Doritos.

tags: health [add]

2007-07-13 10:24:38 / Rating: 348 /

Sabrina

People say that Fibromyalgia is not a "real" disease, but if they had to live with what I live with everyday, they would never say that again.

tags: health Fibromyalgia people judgments [add]

2007-06-26 16:55:57 / Rating: 420.25 /

lady macleod

When I told the emergency room physician it was the worst headache of my life he said, "You will need an MRI, now."

tags: scare health headache [add]

2007-05-24 09:34:26 / Rating: 383.75 /

Alex

On my tour of Kyoto I dislocated my thumb by falling down some slippery stone steps as I was exiting a shrine where I prayed for good health and good luck for the remainder of my trip (no pun intended).

tags: irony health travel [add]

2006-08-14 00:11:08 / Rating: 632.25 /