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[โ€“] SoleInvictus 69 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Testicular torsion. As a teenager, I woke up early in the morning with the worst back and stomach pain I had ever felt in my life. I remember thinking I might be sick, vomiting, then passing out from the pain. My parents found me later that morning because I was delirious and moaning. They took me to the hospital and it was fixed.

Just kidding! My parents are shit bags so they told me I just had the flu and I was being dramatic. After my testicle swelled up to over double the size later that day, they called our family doctor who said I probably had a hydrocele and he'd look at it when he got back from vacation. For the record, mine was textbook testicular torsion, my doctor was as idiotically negligent as my parents.

The pain again became excruciating that evening and I was exhausted from lack of sleep, so I started yelling and demanding my parents take me to the hospital, which they did the next morning. There was TV to be watched, they couldn't bother with taking care of their children. The ER determined my testicle was quite dead. Surgery was scheduled for that evening and I've had one testicle since. Get fucked, mom and dad.

[โ€“] [email protected] 29 points 10 months ago (1 children)
[โ€“] SoleInvictus 11 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Agreed. I'll never understand why people who don't actually want children have children.

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)
[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Pretty expensive way to get free labor

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

You think logic applies to those folks?

Also may they play the long inflation game :p

[โ€“] Tangent5280 8 points 10 months ago

Damn, your parents were S+ tier assholes.

I don't have children, but I have niblings and my heart goes to my throat every time they fall down or get a bruise, I can't even imagine letting my child stay in pain for anything.

I hope you're better now.