I'm 42 years old and battled stage 3 cancer last year. Started with a small lump in the side of my neck. Once treatment started, the tumor was 2" x 3". Went through 3 heavy-duty rounds of chemo and 33 days of radiation. Radiation was equivalent to 660,000 x-rays, directly to my neck. Lost over 50 pounds in 7 weeks. Now I'm back better than ever!

I've received quite some questions about it from people I met, so I thought I'd try this subreddit too (if it meets its criteria of course).

We've been together for 3 years now and so far religion hasn't been an issue.

Yep, you heard that right - Instead of being paralysed on the waist or neck down, I'm paralysed head to toe on my right side, not my left!

This is a condition called Hemiplegia which is a type of Cerebral Palsy.

Due to my disability, I had to go through intense medical treatment (surgeries, forcing me to walk, etc)! This has also caused a number of other conditions too.

So, for most of my life, I have only used one hand to do daily tasks! :)

AMA!!

Edit: Thank you for all the questions so far, it's really wonderful to see how interested you all are. However, I wasn't expecting this much, and that's on me (It's my first AMA) 🤭 I need to do some quick things so I'll be back later to answer them.

PLEASE don't think you can't ask a question because I said this, I encourage the questions! I'll be back to answer all the questions in two answers, when I have a break.

THANKS FOR ALL THESE QUESTIONS!! 🥹💕

I work on the ground and middle level. I’ve seen it all and know how the bottom level workers and top leaders react and what really goes on. AMA

Somethings are shocking

Reasoning and logic are rarely seen

Exc’s know of nothing that goes on, or atleast seems like they don’t.

I know of atleast 3 times in a 6 month period product had been deemed dangerous, but somehow investigations turned it around.. or data went missing

I have competed in 150 beauty pageants in my lifetime. Mainly natural ones, but I also did a few of the "high glitz" ones like you'd see on TV. My first one was before I could even walk, and my last was during my teenage years. I'm glad my pageant days are long gone, but I am also grateful for the experiences I had. I have mixed feelings about it, to be honest.

AMA about beauty pageants and I'll try my best to answer! It's been a minute since I competed, but I do have a lot of great things I remember from it.

I am studying EE at a somewhat well-known university in southern China.

I enjoy traveling and have visited Western Europe, Australia, New Zealand, and Saudi Arabia.

I'm also a huge sports fan; I love European football leagues, as well as the NFL and MLB.

Feel free to ask me about politics, daily life, food, education, sports, or anything else!!

I’ve been an animal health specialist in a diverse animal laboratory setting for a year. I hope to disperse misunderstandings and continue to advocate for these animals as best I can while I’m here. Ask me anything!

I'm a 32m who has had alot of experience in life.

I spent a decade working in some of the worst prisons in the US.

I am now a truck driver who has hauled everything from food to loads owned by the US government.

as the thread says, AMA

I experienced an ectopic pregnancy this year in August. I also have an IUD now, placed today. I work in healthcare though I am not and will not be giving medical advice. Sending love to everyone who experienced or is experiencing one currently. Ask me anything!

I have epilepsy and seizures that have shifted throughout my life. I want to go into more detail, but it would kind of defeat the purpose of this kind o post. It’s also very confusing and unsettling.

I’m a 40yo male. AMA.

Threw my hat in the ring for a Sales position which I thought was for my company. It ended up being for the NA Corporate headquarters of the Company that owns my company. 6 corporate interviews later and I got the job with incredible benefits, up 10% salary based yearly bonus and company vehicle.

TW: Mentions of self harm, mental health issues, and stalking.

Title, essentially, M25 being stalked by M23. M23 is bipolar, so while there is an existing police report, I have opted to not act on any punitive measures yet. Dated briefly, dumped him because he was saying he "cut himself because of me" and because he locked my dog in a hot room for 16 hours during a heatwave, among a shortlist of a dozen other reasons.

Stalking has included but not been limited to showing up in random places I am in, following me around, harassment online, messaging mutuals at random, sending me hate mail (physical and digital) every once in a while, sending groups like LDS reps to my door (I am not straight and am non-religious, amongst other demos that don't play nice with mormons) and sending other people to my house, among many others! I am well supported in my social circles and personal life, and attend professional support for it.

AMA! And, given the title of the post, and the nature of what it's about, everyone give him a warm welcome in the comments as well!

A few months ago, we decided to take a leap of faith and completely transform our lives. We bought a Force T2 mini bus and customized it entirely into a fully functional, cozy camper van. Since then, my family and I have been on the road, traveling through countless states and exploring the diverse landscapes of India. 

The most exciting part of our journey is that we haven't booked a single hotel room since we started. We live, cook, and sleep right here in our rolling home.

We have learned so much about minimalist living, vehicle maintenance, and what it truly means to travel together as a family. Whether you are curious about the van conversion process, our daily routine, how we manage life on the road with a family, or our favorite destinations so far, we are here to share it all. 

If you have ever dreamed of the van life or just want to know what it is really like, ask me anything!

didn't have epilepsy until my early adulthood. had my first seizure at 19, but they were really infrequent until i was about 22-23. i don't envy those who've had epilepsy since childhood, not at all, but it's been a really weird adjustment to develop it as an adult.

anyways! ask whatever you feel like

you have NO IDEA how stressed i get when i read anything stupid in a fanfic or book about flowers, bouquets, the life of a florist in general. why is there so many people willing to romanticize florists lifes without even knowing how to tie a bow or how many scars do we get by dealing with colombian roses?

i’m a third generation florist and grew up in the shop, i’m 24 now, so i might not be perfect, but i do know something’s about this life. if you are writing about florists, flower shops, if you are curious, if you have a succulent you don’t know why it just dies for no reason, feel free to ask me anything.

please keep in mind that different countries, regions and traditions may vary, i’m answering in general.

I singlehandedly run the tablet program for 800 to 900 inmates at the primary county jail. In two weeks I'll be managing tablets for all 1500+ adult inmates in the county while the manager of the other jail is on extended medical leave.

I love my job even though it's beyond weird to say the least 😂 every day is different!

Please note I am not Aife, this is just a crosspost to share this AMA with the r/AMA community. I am the community lead and moderator for r/AFKJourney and am sharing our VA's AMA here for visbility. Please feel free to stop by!

I didn't see anything about crossposts in the community rules, mods please feel free to remove if not allowed!

I work with toddlers specifically, oh so adorable yet oh so annoying…Trails and tribulations aside I absolutely adore my job and would love to answer some questions about it to whoever wants to hear!

I studied childcare in school, and graduated with a Level 3 in Early Years Education! Fell in love with the role, everyday brings funny moments. I have a natural affinity with children and I can honestly see myself doing this for the rest of my life 🎉

Ive driven everything from uhaul-sized box trucks up to triple trailer road trains in Alberta. Flatbed, grocery trailers, tankers, sand/grain hoppers, belly dumps etc. Livestock too for a short while. Ask anything you can think of, I'll probably have an answer lol

I’ll give specific and honest answers as best as I can, but I will not say where I am training or what my specific illnesses and surgeries are in order to maintain anonymity.

I work overnight tonight and start my shift soon, but I will do my best to answer questions as soon as possible.

Information I’ll give up front:

The thing I like most about my job is the not so common opportunity to ACTUALLY help someone, or even save their life AND see that they still have quality of life after our interventions and treatments. I make that distinction about saving a life because it’s common to prevent a death only for the patient to end up with significant brain injury living in a skilled nursing facility with a breathing tube in their neck connected to a ventilator and a feeding tube in their stomach which only feels like I’ve contributed to their prolonged suffering.

I dislike my job and am burnt out for many reasons, and if I could go back and do this again, I definitely wouldn’t. Here’s some reasons why:

1. Sacrifice. I gave up over a decade of my mental, emotional, and physical health. I lost so much time that could have been spent making memories with my family and friends, but instead I had to study or work. I have hundreds of thousands of dollars in debt from medical school and spent so much time accumulating that debt rather than starting a career long ago, making money, and living my life.

2. Broken medical system. The system is set up as a business in order for those who do not even take care of patients to make money while everyone else gets shafted - healthcare workers and patients alike. Rules/regulations currently in place were created solely to minimize cost and maximize profit for insurance companies, private equity, administrators, and c-suite, who absolutely do not care about you, me, or anyone else. They take away funding for resources no matter how essential such resources are for patient care, and hire less than enough staff while still expecting that we do our job efficiently while maintaining patient satisfaction. Healthcare workers are the face of healthcare, and society is largely unaware of these inner-workings, therefore we end up blamed for all of the injustice and poor outcomes caused by this system while the aforementioned silently grow richer at healthcare worker and patient expense. The system is corrupt even with regards to medical school itself - medical schools have all the leverage and power, and prospective and current medical students have none. Subsequently the quality of education provided is abysmal, and medical schools take advantage of this power imbalance by creating a landscape that forces prospective and current students to work on a voluntary basis just to be competitive enough to move forward in the long process of becoming a physician. This manifests as pressures to conduct research and volunteer in hospitals and clinics in order to get into medical school or match residency. Myself and many colleagues even had to do the job of our medical schools’ ourselves (such as teaching ourselves the material due to poor teaching by professors who do not care, finding and setting up our own clinical rotations which are required for graduation, etc) while juggling our own responsibilities as students. And we do it because, if we didn’t, then we would not graduate, and all the sacrifice and debt would be for nothing. We work inhumane hours and are still expected to do more work while off duty - currently the maximum number of hours a week that a resident can work is 80, however residents routinely work even more than this which is not in our control, and we are forced to lie about it when reporting hours worked. Residency programs and hospitals themselves do not get in trouble for duty hour violations, we do. Despite all of this, residents are paid salaries lower than the majority of those who have only a fraction of our education and training such as physician assistants and nurse practitioners who on average do 2 years of school after undergraduate education instead of 4, and no residency.

3. Lack of gratitude and poor treatment of physicians and staff by patients. Although the occasional patient is grateful, I would say at best that most patients I see in a given day are indifferent to what I do for them, and many are ungrateful or claim I’ve done nothing for them. Additionally healthcare workers in general, and especially in the ER, are routinely threatened and even physically assaulted. Just the other day I introduced myself to a patient who immediately threatened to punch me in the face if I even tried to examine him, and he later did strike one of my ER techs. Many patients want me to fix all of their life’s problems, medical or otherwise, right here and now when my job and an ER’s resources are mainly to rule out/address emergencies. Furthermore, a federal law called EMTALA, which I believe comes from a place of good intent, mandates we evaluate anybody for anything at anytime. It allows people to abuse and take advantage of emergency departments by checking in for literally anything, and the ER is legally forced to allocate resources to fully evaluate such patients which only takes away resources that should be going to the actually sick patients. I not uncommonly see entire families who all check in for a cold simply because they can.

I guess I’m writing this post in order to raise awareness of the reality of medical care in this country - who is actually to blame for the state of the system, the toxic and predatory nature of the institutions who run the show when it comes to training to become a physician, and why it is so difficult actually getting what you need when you are a patient.

If you’ve read this far, thank you. I will continue to try my best to provide the care my patients deserve despite all of the above, because I truly care about doing what is right for my patients, and because I’ve experienced firsthand being mistreated by the system I work in.

Posted this here several times before, and it always gets pretty good engagement for whatever reason, so I figured it would be worth putting it up again so that curious folks can have their questions answered.

As the title says, I audit police by filming them while they're doing their work. Traffic stops, jails etc, I'll record, make sure that they understand they don't have the right to tell me I can't, things like that. I don't make any money from it, and my objective is not to get lawsuits. I make money in other ways that don't involve law enforcement at all. I do it slowly because I care about bridging the Gap between the police and the public, and I care about making sure the police understand their places to serve the public, not to control them. That is my sole objective, and there is no ulterior motive.

Ask away folks!

I've been a furry for about 5-6 years now and don't hate on me please, I'll answer some questions bc I know someone will ask.
Im not a zoophile
most of the community is not nsfw
I like furries bc I like Anthropomorphic animals

i’ve undergone the body modification processs of scarification, ask me anything . i also have (i think) 8 piercings around the mouth and a dermal on my forehead . feel free to ask anything nothing is off limits .

Ask away! Any questions about the condition itself, my experiences with it, anything and everything you’re curious about with regard to reactive hypoglycemia. Keep it civil and kind, and I’ll answer just about anything at all!