Surgeons, what was your "this just got even worse" moment? 

When i heard that the drive by woman survived to make an almost full recovery i felt like cheering. I know enough about medicine to be able to visulize what they were doing as stated in the story, and good god its bad. The measures they took were the extreme of extreme to say the least. The fact that she not only survived, but RECOVERED is genuinly nothing short of a miracle. That woman has INSANE will to live, and i couldn't be happier that shes doing well. I don't even know her, and yet her and the medical team impressed the hell out of me.

That first story. Glad the kids and mother came out fine.

That drive-by woman is so strong. The will to live is an incredible thing, saved this woman’s life, in fact.

I can't imagine sneezing and instantly going blind. This video is just a list of reasons why I could NEVER go into a medical-related field.

I have some serious respect for medical professionals. Even more after hearing these stories. Therapy should definitely be provided as part of the job.

As an obgyn myself, i got chills during the first story; i've had cases almost as bad, congrats on the teamwork, it saved mom and the babies

First story out the gate hit home so, so hard. I had a similar story. 37 weeks pregnant, had been complaining of it being hard to breathe for a month. Was told I was 9 months pregnant and I’d feel better after baby dropped. Two days before his birth, I was in ER due to almost passing out at the grocery store. The day of, my O2 was 86 and HR was 159 when we i waddled my way into the ER. They didn’t even make me check in, just immediately rushed me back to triage. Turns out, my lungs were absolutely FULL of blood clots. We went from “we’re delivering by c section in the morning” to “we are going N O W” in the span of 10 mins. A minute after my son’s delivery, I threw a clot, had a saddle pulmonary embolism and coded on the table. My OB was sewing up my uterus while they were doing chest compressions and intubating me. I coded twice more and ended up on a vent and ECMO (last stage life support) for four days, with my mother and husband being told I wouldn’t live the night. Baby was rushed off to NICU due to being stunned, as he had been surviving off low oxygen for a month. I have no memory of my son’s birth whatsoever. I walked out of the hospital 8 days after the incident. Due to a Covid misdiagnosis (what they believed I had initially before the clots were discovered), I wasn’t allowed anywhere near my baby the entire 20 days he was in NICU. I thank God every single day I had the medical team I did. If things had even slightly been delayed, it probably would have killed both of us. My son is healthy and has zero complications from the event, and I’m now banned from any further pregnancies. Super, super lucky to be alive.

I lived the first story except I had delivered my 33 week twins after a week ofIV fluids & couldn’t breathe. Everyone told me to just calm down until I said it felt like there was an elephant on my chest. When I say everyone came running, I mean EVERYONE. At my chest CT, the Radiology Resident said my lungs were unremarkable. My husband was a Radiologist but did not have privileges at that hospital. He was allowed to review my results and told them, “She’s in heart failure” without him there I could have died. I had an “Amniotic Fluid Splash”which has a low survival rate. Thankfully we are all fine!

That first story is exactly how someone would do a first ISBAR handover in the moment to deliver the points of the presentation RAPIDLY QUICK. I have no doubt that that happened, and I’m glad everyone got out of it okay despite the way it all spiralled.

My heart sank when the pt went into DIC. I just knew she was not gonna make it, then BAM. Full on badass.

My grandfather was legally blind, due to diabetes, had Lasik and went back to nearly perfect eyesight. Less than 3 yrs. later he was truly, completely blind. Diabetes is a horrible, devastating disease.

My wife is an ICU nurse. She calls me nearly every morning after she gets off from her shift. It gives her a chance to decompress, so I'll listen no matter how much I'm screaming inside my head. It's amazing what we can do in the way of interventions. Especially at a large, incredibly well-funded university hospital. I have two takeaways from all of I've heard from her and other medical professionals over the years. Make your final wishes known. Clearly so. And document it. Sometimes health systems allow you to have them on file. It takes away the judgement calls that loved ones would otherwise have to make in a highly stressful and likely emotional moment where they might not be able to think objectively, or if they make that call and you die, they'll carry that with them. Get it notarized as well. And no, a tattoo on your chest with DNR is not legally binding. Life saving procedures will still be attempted. The other thing I can't stress enough is for those of us who aren't the one on the hospital bed. Know when it's time to accept reality and let your loved one go as peacefully as possible. Personally, I think doing compressions on a 90+ year old person borders on cruelty. Yet families want it done, and medical professionals are obligated to in most situations regardless of how pointless it is. It's nothing like TV or movies. Even for young people. It's a violent process, cartridge breaks, and people are slow to heal. They don't just pop up awake, say thanks and go about their day like they often do in TV or movies. Always ask yourself - are you instructing the medical staff to do "everything they can" for the sake of your loved one or yourself? At some point you aren't instructing people to do something for your loved one. You are instructing them to do things to your loved one. There's living and then there's existing. The latter is something I hope I never end up being in that position. As much as it pains me to think of my parents passing, I know what they want their quality of life to be. They've been very clear on that. My wife, having been a nurse for so long has also been very clear about what is or isn't acceptable for her if something comes up and I'm left having to make decisions. Luckily most of her friends are either nurses, doctors, NPs or PAs. As such, if something happens, I can contact them and go over the details as they'll be straight with me about the likelihood of possible outcomes. Be optimistic, but also be pragmatic.

Story 2 sounds like the young man had Vascular Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome.

The fact that you speed up the procedures but pause and add drama to the shocking parts is really nice. Great talent and narration skills :) What's up with VerySparked, though?

NICU = Neonatal intensive care unit, it can be pronounced "Nick-U"

Wife is an emt. She had a call a few years ago that I think will fit here. Tones drop, man collapsed at the football game while walking down the bleachers. A minute later, tones go off again. Man is unresponsive and not breathing, cpr in progress. They book it to the highschool field. What still haunts my wife, was the man's wife yelling 'you have to save him'. Wife said that she didn't sound human. But the man and his wife was watching their kid play football. The guy was walking down the bleachers, got to the bottom and had a massive heart attack. He was dead before he hit the ground

Scary fact, but it's possible that the 23 year old guy who had the aortic dissection had cardiovascular Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome. It's basically a disorder of the body's collagen which results in stuff like hypermobility, stretchy skin, easy bruising and the like. Except, for the cardiovascular version, it comes with the risk of sudden, otherwise unexplained aortic dissections. So, if you get diagnosed, you have the threat of essentially having your heart explode at any minute, and you can't do anything to treat it, because it's a genetic disorder. There are multiple types of Ehlers-Danlos, so, luckily, this is one of the types that you can get genetically tested for.

As a hypochondriac and super anxiety haver, these stories have me Googling and freaking tf out! Cannot imagine dying from eye drops!

I'm not associated with any part of the medical field (I don't think I have the memory needed), but I am a weirdo who has spent many hours just learning about medicine in his free time. That first story sent shivers down my spine in just the first minute! Not only exquisite writing on the author's behalf, but also hearing a few of the symptoms leading up to the emergency; it was a deep unsettling fear in the pit of the stomach. The procedures done, the codes called, the sheer pandemonium that must have been the operator lines; it all just reinforces my awe and respect those who work in the medical field!

That optometrist really said "we won't talk about the socioeconomic factors" aka "nevermind the fact that she literally did not have the money for this surgery just think of this patient as remarkably stupid."

Her breathing getting heavier. Arms are heavy. Cholesterol on rise already, twins are ready.

I don't mean to choose favourites but I like this narrator's voice alot, just want em to know :)

As a side note. Excellent pronunciation of those procedures O_O Also learning that you can use up the clotting agents in your body is craazzyyyy

I’m late to the party and my mom was a nurse but I have one… not actually medical as such. My mom worked in geriatrics… old people, y’know… and one day an old lady decided she just had to have a smoke right in her bed in her room in the hospital. There was a fire and of course she didn’t make it. But my mom led the staff outside to start smashing windows to pull patients out from the rooms that were blocked by smoke. She had a pair of those bent bandage scissor with notches in it from the day it happened since she used them to smash the windows. She got her photo with the mayor and everything because no one died except the old lady who started the fire. It’s sad but I mean… there’s no fool like an old fool and if she had to take herself out with a cigarette at least she didn’t take anyone with her.

Honestly I was incredibly shocked to hear a story about someone with pulmonary hypertension! It's incredibly rare and both my dad had and I have it. (Dad unfortunately passed away 20 years ago and I was just diagnosed last may.

Soo... What did we learn from these stories? Exactly! GO DONATE BLOOD.

I had a friend die of an aortic dissection at 29. Healthy as a horse, or so everyone thought. Turns out that about 1% of people are born with congenital heart defects, and a lot go unnoticed until it's too late.

Im seriously wondering if broken femur baby was me tbh. my femur was broken when i was a very small baby that resulted in me being in a body cast and ultimately being placed in foster care. i wish i knew who posted that story so i could get further details and figure it out as i have limited info on my case as my adoptive parents refuse to give me the full details.

I'm always so impressed with your narration and the way you aced those difficult medical names and such. This was intense and I was on edge the whole time. Some of these are really heartbreaking. These doctors are amazing and so are you. Thank you and have a very Merry Christmas .

People who decide to go into the medical profession are humanity’s saviour. For what it’s worth you all have my utmost respect and gratitude.

I also have a story, I'm not a doctor, but an assistant nurse in a dialysis unit. The iccu (intense cardiac care unit) called us for a emergency dialysis on a 28 y.o male in a coma, we got there and we got this story. But first some context, he got married three months before this. And now the event, he woke up one day and immediately collapsed from a cardiac arrest, no reason for it, his wife woke up and called an ambulance, they got there in three minutes and went straight to the hospital, but it was too late, his heart stopped for too long and he suffered major brain damage, which means that he would be a vegetable for the rest of his life if not dead. (Edit: spelling)

I'm not a medical professional by any means, but I believe my dad's story is a perfect example of this So, back in late 1995 my dad (then 21) started feeling intense back pain during physical activities and it gradually got worse, to a point he could barely walk without pain He went to a neurosurgeon in 1996, got a spine CT scan done and they found a real bad herniated disk in his lower back... So the surgery was scheduled, and in the day of the surgery his neurosurgeon requested a spine MRI shortly before the surgery just to get a better view of the herniated disk And oh boy, the results of that MRI went from 1 to 100... They found 2 tumors, one is his lower back in between 2 vertebrae and only 2mm away from his spinal cord, and another one pressing his sciatic nerve (which explains why he was feeling so much pain) When the results came, the entire medical team got shocked and needed to change the plans ASAP bc my dad was already under anesthesia when the results came Thankfully the doctor managed to remove the 2 tumors successfully, he needed to scrape some tissue around the tumors and this included part of his sciatic nerve... The tumors were sent for biopsy, and it turns out they were aggressive osteosarcomas which is very rare, especially when it affects the spine My dad was so "lucky" that his osteosarcomas affected his nerves, bc if it wasn't for that small detail he would probably catch this cancer too late My dad only found he had cancer some days after the surgery, the doctor only waited for him to recover a bit to tell that information, especially considering he was so afraid my dad's sciatic nerve was damaged... But thankfully my dad was okay He got radiation therapy and chemotherapy for a year, he got into remission and thankfully he was able to make a full recovery... He was declared cancer free in 2007 🙏🏻 But that was surely a wild ride for both my dad (and my family) and for the neurosurgeon

I will say I'm not usually interested in these channels but i can't help being impressed you managed to properly pronounce the majority of the medical terminology

I didn’t know that could happen from pushing for a long time. I was in labor for just under 48 hours and pushed for 7 hours… was running a fever, etc. it was rough, but eventually got my daughter out.

Good god, that first story was a rollercoaster.

Fuck, this is bringing back too many memories from 20 years in the OR, i am now 4 years free of it. Many health care workers have PTSD and its not really recognized

The second story is the scariest to me. It went from “he’ll be fine” to “he’s dead” in a matter of minutes and they couldn’t even figure out why.

Blood doners saved my life, THANK YOU!

Ayyyy old narrator! Good to have you back :) how's everyone been? And merry Christmas!

We have the aorta issue on my paternal unit s side of the family, all of his siblings, and some of his cousins have had heart attacks between the ages of 21 and 50 ,and have been found to be carrying this condition .several of the offspring have to take statins, and a few have to take heart meds for the rest of their lives , we started taking the meds under or in our early 30s. Its scary to think that even if you live a healthy life, you could still just go in the blink of an eye from a condition you can't do anything about.

That mom in the first story was a fucking trooper

Our niece in law had a very similar story to the first story. Not greatly over weight. She had placenta previa , the placenta implanted over the placenta, so she was scheduled for c-section delivery. The baby comes out no problem, but then the uterus just disintegrated. She starts bleeding out. I’m not sure how many units of blood she was given while they literally ripped out the uterus and part of the team is trying to keep her heart beating. She survived. She was in a coma for two weeks and it took about a month for her to regain her memory. She didn’t even remember being pregnant for a while.

The second story of the 23 year old spontaneous aortic dissection... I would guess that cocaine tested positive on the medical examiner's report. That's about the only risk factor he could have outside a congenital aortic aneurysm that finally dissected one day.

I am a med student, these are usually only found if you specialized in ER, otherwise, a lot of cold, diabetes, and hypertension, patients(where I am from). All only needs consultation.

I didn’t realize how small your channel is (as of commenting this) as I am sure you will no doubt continue to grow your fan base. I was trying to find your channel by looking up “subreddit stories” and was frustrated when I couldn’t find it. Merry Holidays 🎉😂

I'd love a part 2 of this topic, it's fascinating

EMT Here - Drunk driver going well over 100mph smashed into another car. Husband and wife, with pets. Wife was flown to the trauma hospital directly. Husband was taken to the hospital a half mile from where the accident happened. Wife went directly into surgery. My unit got called to transport the Husband over to the trauma center. I was pulled aside by the nurse and the patient's son. The nurse told me that we were taking the husband over to the other hospital, so that they could be in the same place when the wife was declared dead. She had fractured her C1-C3 vertebrae, even if she had made it through the surgery, she would not have woken up. The son knew, and told me specifically NOT TO TELL his dad. The husband didn't know how bad his wife was injured. Husband had 9 broken ribs, a Hemo/Pneumo (blood and air trapped in his chest, causing a lung collapse) as well as several facial fractures and a broke arm. New Years Day.... what a fucked up way to start the year. Just to answer questions, yes the drunk driver walked away with out a scratch, and yes they have been arrested.

Pretty much all I understood in tgis video is that doctors and nurses are actual heroes ❤

Some of these stories are just pure sadness

My mum is a midwife as the stuff she sometimes come across is awful, medical professionals are so strong

Why did the first woman need a hysterectomy? I was reading about the couvelaire uterus and it says it's not life threatening. I wonder if the damage was severe enough? It says the blood from it comes from the placenta? Super interesting never heard of it.

Goddamn story 6 got me at the edge of my seat lmao

Story 1 almost made me watch Grey's Anatomy. I'm glad the mom and babies came out good. You hear a lot about how African American families aren't treated as seriously until it's too late, I personally dealt with this behavior

Can’t listen to this my anxiety is through the roof

Wow. The medical team did a great job. All of this happens in like 10 minutes of her arriving, and she walks out after a week with two healthy babies?!?!?! MEDICAL TEAM FUCKING NAILING IT WWWHHHOOOOO!!!!! Better than the satirical medical dramas, we need recreations of THIS

That drive by woman had a God on her side

Doctor: shes gonna die Woman: im gonna live to spite you Doctor: shes a quad Woman: im gonna walk to spite you. Thats one strong ass woman

MD told that first story accurately-Hypertensive crisis in the maternity setting is horrid…

Please do one on all the pregnancy related medical horror stories

Wow.... The drive-by victim's recovery is amazing I thought she wouldn't make it

Story 2 - ehlers dahlos? It can affect the veins.

The first one really sounds weird to me because at least here in Sweden you can't get an IVF if you are even slightly overweight, nevermind obese, even if you go to a private clinic and pay yourself (normally you get a couple of tries of IVF for free because socialism is great, ngl). Either it's very different in the US, which honestly wouldn't be wrong imo because being a bit overweight really isn't as bad as some people think it is (not talking morbidly obese) and I think it's cruel to deny perfectly healthy women IVF because they are plump, or she's gained a lot of weight during the pregnancy. If it's the latter it should not be a surprise that complications like this would arise and should have been monitored already. Hopefully they were, it did turn out well after all. (Though I recognise that it's easy for me to say that she should have been monitored when I have access to free quality healthcare)

My dog when I was a teen got DIC and we dame home to her bleeding from every orifice.. it was a nightmare. The whites of her eyes were red, she got brain damage and she was gone before she even died

something something shot through the heart

Merry Chrismas everyone

The last one, I hope the kids got placed elsewhere so they can start over and recover from the mental trauma of their sperm donor offing their mom. If this occurred in the US I can kind of expect how the overburdened social services department of the government is and how it was handled.

Why is there random Minecraft footage in the background instead of just having the post visible to read along?

I kinda feel I shouldn't have heard these stories... Made me feel terrified... Heart attacks despite being in my early 20s, shooters, losing my potential wife in a risky pregnancy... I'm terrified

I just noticed that if I see gore, it doesn't make me too squeamish, but hearing about it is different... Weird. 🤔

i like your stories.

His card declined, so we had to find the old heart.

16:30, were you looking for the term “informative?”

Geez. I'm getting secondhand trauma from these.

Bro I a, actually scared holy shit that was scart

The exploratory surgery discovering multiple organ failure sounds a bit made up. Blood tests and other simple tests will show pretty quickly that organs are failing. I went into multiple organ failure (and survived), and within the first 10 minutes in the ER they could tell. I had horrible, debilitating back pain, but they could tell there was more going on based on the look of my stomach. An EKG and ultrasound gave pretty instant answers while they waited on lab tests, but I was admitted into the ICU. Never once did they need to open me up to confirm that my blood tests were telling the truth.

Story 4 kind of makes me laugh because the doctors don't understand how he doesn't hurt and feels fine. Story 6: I bet the doc who told them she would die and later would be a quad was happy to be wrong. Also, I want to know what happened with the scrotum patient. The stories were definitely something.

Story 6……wow!!

YES HES BACK!! #gonnabetramatized

...my god. That was scary to listen to

Oh my.

Story 2 but in School at Sport ... Dies in seconds

I don't get what happened with the lady who manned the grill for 2 days. Did she have an allergic reaction to the eye drops, or did the heat of the grill/smoke like do a slow burn or something, I really don't understand that story

Real or not, I damn-near cried at the end of the drive-by story.

I know it our body is ticking bomb!

Spent 30 minutes getting a hard metal ring lodged in a patients stomach out. Did not realize he swallowed a grenade

i'm really interested in playing this but the motion sickness is way too much

Not me but my mother who had her tubes tied (2 was enough) after getting a breast cancer port said congratulations its a pregnancy. Mum had got a gyno as surgeon by accident at 55

5:22 I feel uncomfortable just from that

Minor story but when I was born I was stuck in my moms hoohah for hours and in moms pushing she permanently damaged nerves in the side of one eye losing the vision in the left half that eye. Now I joke about how Its her kids job to sit on mommas last nerve 😂😂😂 she laughed uncontrollably when I first told her that and called me an ###hole while laughing I love my family haha

4:50 in my opinion the mom should be charged with first degree murder and given the most severe punishment

I really wish I could give blood but I have a severe phobic reaction to needles and blood draws Like, I feel like I’m going to puke AND pass out when I get my yearly blood work

Very interesting.

Push for 8 hours!!

Wait, what's i e in that context in story 3?

0:00-4:47-16:48 yikes!😱😂🕛🤨👍

Ok but what happened to the guys balls? he got shot 15 times?

Worst part is these stories are not uncommon. I have so many stories my dad shared with me... He suffers from the trauma of working in the ER decades later, still has terrible nightmares

This is a funny story my mom used to work in the er one day a guy was rushed in to the ICU she was the first to see him and she asked what he did because the skin on his left hand was literally peeled back like a banana and he said I WAS TRYING TO SEE IF IT WAS EMPTY mind you we live in ky

Holy fucking shit, the last one is horrifying.

Story 2: I guess god said it was the mans time to go