This is so humanizing. As someone who has had chronic diarrhea from autoimmune nonsense we really do need to talk about this shit more often. "I'm not gonna let the diarrhea win this time" is SUCH a mood
Grace, I think you’ve finally got a sh*t story that tops college, jogging, front lawn🌝 Glad you’re doing a bit better, and I hope things just keep going up from here!!💛
As an Emergency Department nurse, your description of the ED was spot on. Also, that’s irritating that they didn’t give you a “hat” to go in to catch the goods. Makes life simpler for patient and nurse. Also props to you for being dedicated to giving that sample! 😂
Grace!! I was your transporter from the hospital! ..I used to watch your cooking videos😆Glad to hear you’re slowly doing better. Stay blessed🙏🏽 Godspeed ! 🫶🏽❤️
As a nurse I am so so so sorry you were given a Dixie cup… you should’ve had the bowl from the start. You are a fighter and so brave. Rooting for you!!!!!
I know I’m a nurse and as soon as I heard the part about the urine mixing with the stool my heart sank for Grace 😭😣 leave it to the ER to not have a hat for a stool sample 😂😉 just kidding ER nurses! ❤
@@NicoleD95I’m not even a nurse and yet hospital experienced enough to know she should have had a hat for her stool sample. Giving her a urine cup is insane.
Dear Grace: I have followed you since your tiny apartment kitchen videos. I have watched you grow and change and flourish. Watching you helped me survive my own chemo journey. And now, I lend back all that strength I gleaned from you for all those years, as a fellow chemo baddie, as a person in remission now, I return all that energy of healing back to you now tenfold. Your story is similar to my own, The real dirty harsh reality of illness like this, and I'm sorry you and I have something so similar we share but, you are right Helbig, you are strong, you are fighting cancer so damn well. And you didn't lose any dignity. Well, you feel like you did, but don't ever let Cancer make you feel as if you have no dignity. cancer fights dirty, so we have to fight dirty too: sometimes fighting for your life isn't the most dignifying action. But it's heroic. You. Are. Strong.
ahhh f*ck, not me crying during my own chemo while reading this 🥺💞 I've been a subscriber here for the same amount of time and I don't think I could have said it any better myself, how amazing Grace as been and continues to be throughout all of this, boldly facing everything that comes her way. Grateful you took the time to write this, means a lot, truly 💚 gosh I love this community so much 😭😭😭
This reminds me of Tig Notaro so much, in that she had cancer and c-diff, and then told an AMAZING story that was so funny and heart-wrenching about the experience...and now you have too! She got a Grammy nomination for that. I think you should get a trophy for facing all of this with such grace (pun intended) and humor. Wishing you good health in the near future.
I would honestly go back to the ER and rip them a new one for it. If they didn't have hats, the floors clearly do, and you can share supplies. Fuming on Grace's behalf that they just let her struggle like that.
Grace, I work in infection prevention at a hospital - CDiff is no joke! With CDiff washing hands with soap and water is key! So glad you are on the mend, stay well Grace. Bless you for your humor, you had me cracking up! 😂 I know it can seem embarrasing, but trust us, we don't give a shit about your shits. We've seen it all!
Hi Grace! Watching this whole series 5 months after I beat ovarian cancer, 7 years after i beat brain cancer. I am SO proud of you for perservering and being so vulnerable. Please know that in your loneliest, darkest moments - you have more people thinking about you and wishing you the best ALL around the world. I wish the best for you and will continue to follow you ❤ You are so loved and appreciated by more people than you can ever imagine. XOXOXO
I’m an RN and I was hanging on every word of this story thinking WHY didn’t they give her a hat to sh*t in?? And “this is probably c. diff”. (The “hat” is the “bowl” in the toilet.) So glad that nurse came to your house and raised the alarm bells. You did amazing so proud of you. Rest!!!
I need to have a fecalysis done for persistent nausea and stomach sensitivities. I've avoided it because I have no clue as to how to collect the sample. Hearing about the toilet hat is huge news. Thanks so much for talking about the hat! Hopefully it is available in my part of the world.
1) I knew it was c. Diff the second you discussed your symptoms - super common in people who are immunocompromised!, 2) WHOO BOY is the whole “the nurse was devastated to tell me she couldn’t use the sample” thing a HUGE mood, and 3) I am SO PROUD OF YOU for getting through this. I beat Stage 2 triple negative breast cancer last year, and if you can keep your humor throughout this, it is the best thing you can possibly do for your mental health. My mom & I were cackling throughout every chemo treatment while watching bad television, and it became our little “date” every week to 3 weeks. Sending you a lot of love & support
Glad to hear you’re okay! Zach from the Try Guys also got C-Diff in his glass story and it’s funny to hear how similar your stories are with trying to get a stool sample at the hospital 🤣
Grace, as a person who has been hospitalized multiple times for digestive ailments, I’m dying (sorry) laughing at your ER stool sample story. It’s a level of humiliation you can’t understand until you’ve been there and can’t laugh at until it’s behind you 😅
Cancer, ER, Tiny cup - The new shit your pants story. I love you Grace Helbig. How do you make a tramatic cancer, diarrhea, CDiff , ER story sort of funny? I'm glad you are on the mend and getting the care you need. I am forever rooting for you on this journey!!
That tumor disappearance is such amazing news 🥳 Hopefully there are no more sh*tty situations and it’s only up from here and there are many more moments of joy and fun along the way ❤
The urge to nominate this video for a streamy award... Wow. What a dramatic and inspiring imaginery this was! i can't wait for christopher nolan to adapt it to a feature film. Lots of love
Only you could make me laugh so hard I almost cry at a story like this 😭😂 Thank god you’re feeling better. Also Elliot continues to prove how amazing he is for you during this hell. Thank god for him too! ❤
What's crazy is at no point through this story was I actually grossed out lol. I'm just in such awe of this journey and you've really built yourself in an incredible way Grace. Rooting for you always!! Love the story times :)
My sister also got C. Diff. during her chemo treatments! It’s so scary because you can write off the symptoms as chemo side effects. I’m so glad you’re on the mend and feeling better! Sending love and healing vibes🤍
Me (a medical doctor) 5 minutes into this story have said at "oh she should have been hospitalized when that happened" at least 4 times. Also me: "oh right she doesn't have a checklist of red flags for signs and symptoms that indicate that you should seek medical attention in her head" Glad to see that you are better ❤ amazing news on the great response of the tumor to chemo 🎉
Somehow, it feels like you have been training to tell this kind of story ever since your Daily Grace days. My husband just walked in on me cry-laughing to this, and then he started laughing too. (I've been bingeing TMGW so he knows your voice lol) You're a legend, Helbig. Go kick cancer's ass.
The fact that you are able to take this clearly terrifying experience and both see the funny in it and tell it in such an amusing way says a lot about you, you wonderful human being ❤
"Two Cups, One Grace" is my recommendation for your next book title. I may not have felt so intrigued and inspired by a story since I saw "Rudy" for the first time. When that poop finally connected with the cup! Well, I'll just say if tears were poop I had facial diarrhea. You are an actual superhero! I truly wish our love and respect could somehow be your nourishment. I'm worried the diarrhea might be the Universe's retribution for your creating Mucachoes! #Fcancer #Fdiarrhea
Girl, we met once in a golf cart vidcon (I’m Louise’s Christian friend… I still don’t know why she introduced me like that). I just felt like waving and letting you know I’m still here, have always been and plan to always be. Through the hard and the loose shit. Proud of you for choosing humor in place of despair. It’s potent stuff! You’re tough shit!
The levity in this compelling and riveting story that you delivered about this distressing episode during your medical care journey is incredible. You are incredible. Somehow this video popped into my feed. I have been a RN for decades. Patients have been and are my heroes. I teach new grad RNs that patients expect us to know the science of nursing, the medications and skills, but it is the art of nursing and having emotional intelligence that defines the mastery of patient care that patients need as well, and that includes knowing to help a very ill patient (YOU) to a private bathroom in the ER and personally obtaining that stool sample in a cup or from a "hat" in the toilet, and washing/cleaning you with warm wet wipes, changing your gown and putting another one on you backwards as robe to cover you. Always ask for help if none is offered. You suffered and should not have.
"[I knew,] the answer was in the diarrhea" is the best performed line I've heard in all video and audio content I've consumed this decade. 😅. Horrible experience and glad you got through it. Thank you for keeping us updated! As mentioned before: Both out of caring about your wellbeing and out of the cold fact that most of us watching will in our lives experience the C-horror ourselves and/or in loved ones next to us and your long trained and very experienced ability to tell human experiences through your stories in your very (awesomely) distinct way will help so many at least deal with it mentally. Lots of strength and thanks to Elliot for his supporting you.
As always, the way you are so funny and so candid and so unashamed in the way you talk about things makes me feel less alone and gives me a lot of comfort.
C. Diff, that reminds me of Tig Notaro's breast cancer story which is also extraordinary! (Just like Grace's story, it was extraordinarily grueling and extraordinarily shared with the world through talented, personal comedy.) I wonder if Grace has ever met Tig, I bet they would both enjoy a convo about their parallel experiences.
“You’re fucking strong, Helbig” 😭 please. I love this. I’m so proud of you for maintaining that outlook despite everything. You are incredible. The hard days aren’t winning and you are truly living up to your name here with how you’re handling everything. Even if it doesn’t always feel like it 💕 immensely…IMMENSELY…proud and in awe of you
I had the biggest celeb crush on Grace when I found DailyGrace as a high schooler 13 years ago. Even through all this Grace has still got it, and remains positive and funny. She's awesome.
Give this girl a medal 🥇; She's still got her whit even while going through all this (literal) crap. Having had to go to the ER for a family member a few weeks ago, I can affirm that it is the most serial experience ever. Everyone is nervous, but still joking to make the time go by. Best wishes. You got this, girl. Laughter is the best medicine.
Somehow managed to eat my dinner while watching this but just wanted to say I was practically cheering for you whilst you described the second round in the bathroom and your Olympian performance 🎉
You are an amazing person, Grace! To be able to tell your humiliating and scary story in a way that makes people laugh is a rare talent. I helped my wife through 19 chemo infusions and I just finished 6 chemo infusions myself so I can definitely relate to much of what you have experienced. To call chemotherapy challenging is a sad understatement. It's a dramatic rollercoaster ride filled with many new twists and turns. Congrats on completing your 3 rounds of chemo and having tumor shrinkage! You are helping many of us battling cancer maintain positivity with your honesty and presentation skills! I wish you all the best and please keep sharing your experiences. I can relate much more to these cancer battle videos than your cooking videos. 😉
I believe I have said this before, but thank you for sharing this with us. Someone else will find this during their chemo, and hopefully, it will help them in some way. Your sense of humor is great, and it shows just how strong you are. I'm glad that you are doing ok after all of that. ❤ I hope that the next round of chemo goes well and that your results from the scans come back with good news so that it is one of your last rounds.
The worlds greatest storytellers: 1. Charles Dickens 2. Grace Helbig I’ve had to give a stool sample before. Not long after lockdown so I had to queue outside the doctors with about 50 other people, then had to announce over the intercom my name and the fact that I was here to collect a stool sample kit. It was a screw top jar with a spoon attached to the lid. After retrieving the sample I then had to go to the post office and mail it in a special box that said HUMAN FEACES on it so everyone knew. Lol, great times
we are right here with you grace! my mom has stage 4 pancreatic cancer and we are watching your cancer journey. thank you for being so vulnerable because it is helping people like my mom INCREDIBLY.
When I tell you I was CRYING laughing through your poop sample story. Oh my god, I could barely breathe listening to that. I'm going through some heavy autoimmune health issues right now, and I've spent a lot of time doing invasive/unpleasant medical stuff...and some of it is absolutely absurd, to a point where you have no choice but to laugh at it. Hearing stories from others really does help. Thank you so much for sharing your updates about this journey. Hang in there. You're an absolute champion.
oh grace, my heart dropped the moment you said c diff because it all made sense 😭 I’m so glad it’s something treatable, despite how absolutely horrific it must have been. I started watching you when i was 11 and I’m about to turn 22, and I’ve never been prouder. you are absolutely destroying that cancer and you’ll be ringing the bell any day now
Baby, I laughed so hard I shit myself. Surgery to remove my gallbladder was on the 5th and I've been constipated due to the opiate painkiller ever since. I took softener yesterday, and your story got everything moving. Thank you for sharing your difficult health journey with us. You give a bit of hope that US healthcare hasn't completely collapsed yet. So hard to be taken seriously as a female chronic pain patient, never really being listened to or given effective pain relief.
I know that feeling of coldness, when you feel the end is near, and I'm glad to hear that you fought your way back. On an unrelated note, I was going to make a mushroom risotto for dinner, but I think I'll get some takeaway instead ... when my appetite returns.
Good to hear your progress Grace! Keep vigilant, C-Diff can come back in 1 in 6 people that get it in 2 -6 weeks, so be mindful of your symptoms and get care if they begin to return!
I have had a gastrointestinal disease for 27 years and i still feel so weird having to bring in a stool sample and watching the nurses just having a normal day, laughing and chatting 😂
As someone who has had C. Diff before (albeit not while going through any other challenges at the time except for the start of senior year and some college campus tours) your description of the illness was spot on. You’re strength is incredible, and comedic timing unparalleled. I’m so sorry they didn’t give you a hat the first time around🎩 hope you’re still on the upswing
Grace, I’m so sorry - that sounds genuinely horrible to go through :( i also have so so much respect for your ability to turn it into a story that made me have to actively try not to snort in my office at certain points, though, because I would never have expected to hear something this shitty (I’m so sorry) recounted at all comedically
“Well that’s quite a small target, isn’t it?” 😂 funniest thing I have heard in a long while. oh my god. I am sorry you are going through this but I am glad you are processing everything well enough to talk about it on here. Please continue the updates so we can “PRAISE the crap out of you” (no pun intended 😉) and shower you with our support. ❤
For such a sad story this has so many great lines. I had no tasssium. The answer was in the diarrhea. My freedom little smeagol body. The weekend at Bernies reference, the backup sweats. Cancer had definitely not stopped you from being absolutely hilarious
I’ve been in and out for 9 years and I’m also stage 4. I’ve never spoke to someone who’s been doing this as long as me. Do you have breast cancer or something else?
@@brigetteedinborough9541 Serous Uterine Cancer. My docs say I am anomaly. Nothing like living with uncertainty for years and years! Hope your doing well. About to try Doxil, starting next week. 😬
Oh God we all care for this woman so much and its making my eyes teary listening to the things she's going through but she.still.makes.us.laugh. You're a strong and brave woman, Grace. Get Well soon, ok. 🤣 You are needed in this bleak bleak world
Grace, I have followed your content for years. Found you in my loneliest time when it felt like you were my only friend. Thanks for brightening so many days for me and lots of other people. Respect you endlessly and you deserve all the love. Keep on truckin
as a person who watched their father pass away from cancer at 19, watching you talk about this with so much humor is so cathartic for me! thank you!! love from someone who has been watching for over ten years
Wow. The er experience can be so dehumanizing. But now you know about the bowls so you can (in a nice Grace way) demand one if needed. Thank you so much for sharing this journey with us. We got you.
"I'm not gonna die without giving them some diarrhea." I think I'm gonna shout that next time I try to max out on squats while my friend spots me. Thanks for the inspiration 👍
Cdiff is literally the worst! I'm an icu nurse and it's horrendous, you're a trooper! We bleach everything down. It's so so contagious I'm sorry you had to go through that.
