Comment preview: >but within a week of the miscarriage we were talking about when we were going to do in vitro again. Within. A fucking. Week. He is obsessed with having a baby. No one in their right minds would bring that up again so soon after their wife nearly DIE ....

Comment preview: My father is one of my best friends. Few years ago he nearly died from a heart attack and went into a coma at one point for roughly a month. It was basically like he was dead. I have a good feeling how it's gonna go when he actually does. It will not be a ....

Comment preview: We got this new girl in our class who was autistic. She looked just fine, nothing weird about her. Occasionally she was a bit stressed or depressed or simply ran out of the class room to cry for no reason and she was always alone, but she liked it that way ....

Comment preview: Really.. my life is a series of stories. When I was born my grandmother misheard my dad say that I "looked like an otter" and told all the family I was slightly deformed. (He had said "Alder", my grandmothers maiden name). When I was 3 there was a terrible ....

Comment preview: I remember the first time I beat Civ3 (C3C) on Deity. Not one of those pussy Seafaring + Archipelago + all water games either. I was playing catch-up nearly the whole game due to a bad starting position, the AI getting 40% discounts on everything, and the ....

Comment preview: Okay, a lot of people here seem to have trouble understanding the preventative side of birth control, (as in cancer prevention, endo, etc) so I'll provide two anecdotes of it in a curative sense. Maybe that will help people understand why it's important be ....

Comment preview: This. It's all media propaganda to help ban these chemicals and the usage of them, instilling fear into the users and their families. I'm assuming this radio story you heard was in direct reference to the kid who died (or nearly died, can't remember right ....

Comment preview: When I was in 6th grad, I nearly died while pounding at the ice from underwater. I actually don't recall what I felt very well, I know I was angry. I realized I was going to die, but I didn't want to accept it. All I recall after falling through the ice wa ....

Comment preview: My grandfather fought the Japanese while defending Hong Kong. He and thousands more were outnumbered 10-1, and surrendered after about 18 days of fighting as hard as they could. They were taken to Japanese POW camps, where they experienced what was easil ....

Comment preview: Little Johnny dad comes home to find Little Johnny crying on the doorstep. "What's the matter, son?", asked the father. "My pet hamster died", says little Johnny. They both go into Little Johnny's room and see the hamster, dead as a door nail, lying on it' ....

Comment preview: Let me tell you a couple stories, because that's how I relate best. I love my cats to death. My older is 16, my younger is 1. The older nearly died of pneumonia 3 days after I brought him from the shelter (long story), my younger is the son of a dearly lov ....

Comment preview: So apparently I nearly died. I had to have an emergency c section at a little less than 6 months pregnant. I had started having severe cramps, but decided to put off going in to the ER for a while because for the past 3 weeks, every Sunday night, I ended u ....

Comment preview: I was born and raised into a devout Jehovah's Witness family, dad was an Elder, very insular congregation, the whole 9 yards. I nearly died when I was 14 because I had an accident on my bike and needed blood, dad called in the congregation and they argued ....

Comment preview: When I was 18 my mum was quite ill for a while and ended up having to have a hysterectomy. The operation went badly wrong and she ended on life support with a breathing tube in her neck and all that. She was there for around a month before she was ok to co ....

Comment preview: I feel this happens more than you would think. Anecdotal evidence in my life: my younger brother was hit by a drunk driver that has left him with lifelong ailments, he was in a coma for five weeks (last three weeks were chemically induced to be clear) and ....

Comment preview: Japanese Language all but died due to Soup Nazis. The original rules said that the site did not want verbatim translation requests, e.g. someone writing a letter and someone else posting a full translation. But then the Soup Nazis abused that idea to preve ....

Comment preview: Keith is off heroin and can't do cocaine anymore due to the drugs he has to take every day after his brain injury, so there's that. He just smokes weed and drinks these days. Also, it's not exactly true when Keith talks about maintaining a steady buzz and ....

Comment preview: eRROR : missingNO. http://imgur.com/a/vERh0 edit :this seems like i'm telling a joke.. but i'm not. that comic makes me cry every time i see it, and i don't mean laughing cry.. i mean it makes me sad, and i bawl like a baby. Of course i also cried pretty h ....

Comment preview: The video text says: > On Friday, January 30 2015 I nearly died in a rollover after borrowing my mother's Prius to drive to Boston and make a video exposing Brianna Wu for her treachery in the games industry. While on the highway **I was "Street Racing" ....

Comment preview: At 11 weeks pregnant (right before they do all the major testing to make sure the fetus is normal and ok) I was diagnosed with TTP (treated throughout the pregnancy, nearly died twice, had 63 plasmapheresis treatments, multiple blood transfusions and at 7 ....

Comment preview: My grandmother got sick and nearly died in the hospital last year. She lives in NY and my immediate family lives in GA. My mom was in the Atlanta airport about to go on a business trip when she got the call from my uncle that my grandmother didn't have a p ....

Comment preview: Woah, woah, woah, what? The average sailing speed of large ships was SIGNIFICANTLY lower then that, 1400's ships, such as Columbus's, would average only about 40miles in a day, and that was for constant sailing. Even ships such as the East Indiamen line in ....

Comment preview: When I was in 4th grade, we took a class trip to the symphony and I loved it. If you've ever heard a live symphony, then you know how amazing the sound it. I'd never heard something that awesome before and was so excited that I turned to my friend next to ....

Comment preview: It does, for a month after you return to your normal life. Then you realise that the fact that you nearly died doesn't change shit and you're back in the same shitty world you left. Nobody treats you any differently, everybody who was an asshole is still a ....

Comment preview: *And during his years in medicine, never once did he find an abortion necessary to save the life of a pregnant woman.* How lucky for him and the patients he treated. I bet there are scores of medical conditions he never had to treat, but the lack of his h ....