26 Unbelievable True Stories Shared Online That Will Surprise and Delight You
I do have a few health problems, but it could have been much worse.
Editing since others are mentioning their experiences and health issues:
I had hydrocephalus, it was treated poorly (the doctor thought I was fine, and my parents were overreacting when I was seizing and turning colors). It was treated, and now had ~6 ft of tubing in the form of a shunt, as well as seizures I’ll never outgrow. They’re treated with medication.
Otherwise, outside asthma and other smaller things, I live a normal life. I graduated high school a few years ago, and hope to be married soon.
Edit 2: Thank you everyone for your stories! Tbh, I’m a bit overwhelmed: I didn’t expect my comment to blow up like this! I’m going to do my best to respond to everyone, but I apologize in advance if I don’t. I promise I’m reading every comment, and they all mean so much!
Once in college I applied for a job at the library help desk. I figured I would help people find books. Didn’t give it much more thought than that.
During the interview, I aced all of the customer service questions. Then they asked me whether I knew how to defrag a hard drive. Cue alarm bells in my head, but I kept calm outwardly and said no, but you can teach me.
I worked in IT for three years by accident. They were too nice to fire me.
I won two TV game shows. “The $10,000 Pyramid” (won $10,300) in 1975, and “Sale of the Century” (was on the show for 9 days; won $34k in cash and prizes) in ’85.
A horse threw me in the air when I was a child. But I wasn’t on his back. He grabbed the skin of my back with his teeth and yeeted me.
My great great grandfather was a Pinkerton Detective, acted on Vaudeville, and had 5 wives in 2 different states that knew nothing of each other. He also slightly changed his last name each time and never got caught until Ancestry website happened lol.
I was shooting some stuff in my village and a bullet ricochet and hit me in the torso. I was afraid my parents would kill me if they found out (I was young) so I used a knife and tweezers to remove the fragment and a stapler to stitch it up and then covered the wound and they never found out until a few years later when I told them.
I am one of very few people outside WW1 to live through mustard gas. So rare the doctors (1995 no internet) had no idea how to treat me.
I’ve had a headache since August 2015 and I will probably have it for the rest of my life. It’s only on half my head, so I got that going for me, which is nice.
I’ve published four peer-reviewed scientific papers on hamster testicles.
I’m currently working on a critical COVID-related project which doesn’t involve testicles and thus would be much less exciting for Redditing purposes 🙂
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