June 26, 2025 • 10 mins
Recent experiences with the healthcare industry have Anney and Samantha discussing some of the odder things that came up.
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Speaker 1 (00:05):
Hey, this is Anny and Samantha. I want your stuff.
I never told you. Protection of my Heart Radio and
welcome to another edition of Happy Hour. As always, if
you choose to drink whatever you choose to do, do
(00:25):
so responsibly. Samantha, are you sleeping on anything?
Speaker 2 (00:29):
Got my good old trusty bubble water?
Speaker 1 (00:31):
What about you? Guys? Nice? I have a light beer.
Oh it's cold. It is very hot today, but I
don't know. I'm cold natured, so I'm still worried like
a hoodie. Sure, yeah, yeah, which kind of relates to
a follow up I wanted to do about my recent
(00:52):
visit to the er. All right, let's talk. Okay. There
were a couple of points that I mentioned in passing
and didn't really get into detail. All one is I
said something about like going as an ace person, and
I didn't really expound upon that, and I should have
(01:12):
because it wasn't that they were like, are you pregnant?
I understand that's a real question you need to ask,
right right, Like that's a that's a very important thing
to know, especially if you're gonna have X rays, which
I did. No, what I met was it's maybe it's
not even maybe. It was just me being in my
(01:33):
head because at that point I said, in the previous
episode we're talking about this, I had have to be
so one hundred percent sure before I go to the doctor,
and this is like the ultimate level of going to
the doctor. So I was having all these doubts in
my head about it, like should I have gone, should
I not have gone? All that stuff. It was more
(01:55):
about how they kept asking me you live alone, there's
no one for you, which I guess they were trying
to say, like no one could have driven you or
something else. I don't know. Again, I could be totally
misreading the situation, but so many, like of the people
I saw were like you live alone, this kind of tone,
(02:18):
and I wanted to be like, yeah, I don't understand.
That's she's sticking point for you.
Speaker 2 (02:26):
You know. That Actually was a question that was asked
to me recently when I went to my physical therapy
evaluation and she asked, so, do.
Speaker 1 (02:32):
You live alone?
Speaker 2 (02:33):
I said no, I have a partner, but he's not
here right now. And she was like, oh, but you
don't live alone, like she majored. I'm like no. She's
like okay, great, great, great, And I was like wait,
what wait, what why what I mean, I understand if
we need to care for her, but I'm like, but
he's not there when I'm going through this, so I
don't know why this is.
Speaker 1 (02:50):
Well, yeah, it was strange. It was strange how often
it got bought up. And I just got the impression
that they thought I was like the saddest possibly on
drugs patient, but because they were very quick to be like, oh,
this is stress. Do you live alone? Like all of
these things. Another thing that came up that I mentioned
(03:15):
very briefly but I've learned is something that's really happening
a lot right now is that I got a lot
of oh, you're too young, you're too young for that,
You're too young for this. And outside of just my
experience hearing that, I've heard that multiple times, I've heard
that throughout my life. I've recently learned independently of what
(03:41):
happened to me, there has been an increase in a
lot of cancers amongst younger people, and a lot of
times it'll be dismissed of, like oh you're too young.
And I do think will we run a classic about
self diagnosing, I think that's like tied up in it.
(04:03):
But there has been an increase of younger Americans, in
particularly women who you know, go in and they're like,
you know, I have all these symptoms and like, oh,
you're too young, that's that can't be it. It just
happens sometimes, or it's just this, or it's just stress.
That's what a lot of people got and that's what
(04:24):
I got too. Oh, it's just stress. And then they
go multiple times over the years, and then unfortunately, finally
somebody's like, oh, no, you have cancer or something like
something very serious, and they're like, yeah, I've been I
knew something was wrong. I knew something was wrong, and
(04:48):
it's just kind of frustrating because I get it. I
have a lot of friends who work in the medical industry,
and I've heard their complaints about people who come in
like all the time and are not honest with their symptoms.
I actually think I kind of hamstrung myself with how
honest I was being because I knew that, and so
(05:09):
I was trying to be so honest and I feel
like I kind of downplayed my symptoms.
Speaker 2 (05:15):
Oh that's what I do.
Speaker 1 (05:16):
Yeah, because at first they kept asking about heart pain
and I was like, it's more of a tightness but
it had been a pain earlier, but they didn't ask
about earlier. They just asked about then, and so I
was just trying to be like honest and be like, no,
right now, it's just a tightness. And I was really
and they gave me like the pain scale, and I
was like, I don't know, yeah, I can barely focus
(05:39):
right now.
Speaker 2 (05:40):
That is so misleading because I always put lower numbers
in my head because I don't know. And then like
we've talked about like pain tolerance, like what what? Because
I was basing it without any like references. The pain
scale on mine was like, you know, at three, it's
mild pain, at nine, at eight, it's like moderate pain. Wait,
and that'd be that's a high number to me, but
(06:02):
I'm like, no, it was definitely. So I would always
put myself at five, six, seven, because I didn't want
to be like, you know, it's not awful. But then
like the on the scale says nine you can't sleep.
I was like, oh, yeah, I was there, but I
wouldn't have described that's nine because it was bad. I
hated it, but it wasn't the worst thing that I've
ever gone through. So I was like, how's that a nine.
So in my mind it was a seven because yes,
(06:23):
it's it's not working. Someone needs to redo this, revamp this.
Speaker 1 (06:28):
I agree, I do the same thing. I'm like, it
sounds wild to me to be like, oh, yeah, it's
a nine unless I'm on the verge of the most painful.
Speaker 2 (06:37):
Death exactly, like nine is almost death and ten is dead.
Speaker 1 (06:43):
But painful death. So I was they were asking me
and I didn't even have the scale in front of me.
I was like, I don't know, right, why are you
asking me these questions?
Speaker 2 (06:54):
These are so like internative.
Speaker 1 (06:57):
Right right, And I know that's that's difficult. People are.
They do experience pain differently, so it is tricky. But
I just felt like at that moment, that was not
what I needed to see or hear. I just but
it was also one of those things where, yeah, I'm stressed.
(07:18):
I have been stressed. I think a lot of us
are stressed. But I think within the first like five
minutes when I got in the hospital, that I could
stress before they'd done anything else. And it was just
sort of like it was frustrated. It was downhearted because
I'd finally taken like a move and I thought I
was about to die and I did something about it,
(07:39):
and here they are like, yeah, you're too young, you're
too young. Okay, well great, can't wait to get the
bill for that. And that being said, I really get it,
I really do. Everybody was really nice, and they had
just installed a new system, so it was kind of
chaotic were fighting about because somebody was like, oh, she's
(08:02):
too young for that, and the guy was like, did
you see what I saw?
Speaker 2 (08:07):
Did well?
Speaker 1 (08:08):
Yeah, I don't know. I think that that whole kind
of dismissal. We probably shouldn't do that. I get that,
like maybe statistics would indicate, but they're changing clearly obviously.
So I'm also not that young. I'm young, but I
got that right anyway. I just wanted to clarify those
(08:35):
those points as I still work through this whole experience,
as I'm still navigating it, because I haven't been still
the doctor and embarrassing in a long time too, so
it's I think I'm like kind of still in not shock,
but oh yeah, that's what it was like. Because I
had a lot of doctors when I was young be like, oh,
that can't be right.
Speaker 2 (08:55):
Right.
Speaker 1 (08:55):
A week later, I'm in a hospital and I'm like, oh, Yeah,
turns out that's about right. That's about right. Okay, so
more health updates and I'm sure Read and Samantha will
be back again with more. Oh, I didn't even mention.
There's a whole thing about on the other end of
(09:15):
doctors being told they're too younger all the time. So
I do want to mention that I believe that, I
think that's probably a thing. So if you have any
experiences with that on either side, please write in and
let us know. You can email us at Hello at
stuff Ienever Told You dot com. You can also find
us on Blue Skype, Master Podcast, on Instagram and to
talk at stuff When Never Told You. We're also on
(09:36):
YouTube and we have a book you can get wherever
you get in your books. Thanks it's always to our
super just Christine, our executive producer and a contributor, Joey,
Thank you, and thanks to you for listening Stuff Whenever
Told You, the production of by Heart Radio. For more
podcasts on my heart Radio, you can check out the
heart Radio app Apple Podcast, where we listen to your
favorite shows
Hey, this is Anny and Samantha. I want your stuff.
I never told you. Protection of my Heart Radio and
welcome to another edition of Happy Hour. As always, if
you choose to drink whatever you choose to do, do
(00:25):
so responsibly. Samantha, are you sleeping on anything?
Speaker 2 (00:29):
Got my good old trusty bubble water?
Speaker 1 (00:31):
What about you? Guys? Nice? I have a light beer.
Oh it's cold. It is very hot today, but I
don't know. I'm cold natured, so I'm still worried like
a hoodie. Sure, yeah, yeah, which kind of relates to
a follow up I wanted to do about my recent
(00:52):
visit to the er. All right, let's talk. Okay. There
were a couple of points that I mentioned in passing
and didn't really get into detail. All one is I
said something about like going as an ace person, and
I didn't really expound upon that, and I should have
(01:12):
because it wasn't that they were like, are you pregnant?
I understand that's a real question you need to ask,
right right, Like that's a that's a very important thing
to know, especially if you're gonna have X rays, which
I did. No, what I met was it's maybe it's
not even maybe. It was just me being in my
(01:33):
head because at that point I said, in the previous
episode we're talking about this, I had have to be
so one hundred percent sure before I go to the doctor,
and this is like the ultimate level of going to
the doctor. So I was having all these doubts in
my head about it, like should I have gone, should
I not have gone? All that stuff. It was more
(01:55):
about how they kept asking me you live alone, there's
no one for you, which I guess they were trying
to say, like no one could have driven you or
something else. I don't know. Again, I could be totally
misreading the situation, but so many, like of the people
I saw were like you live alone, this kind of tone,
(02:18):
and I wanted to be like, yeah, I don't understand.
That's she's sticking point for you.
Speaker 2 (02:26):
You know. That Actually was a question that was asked
to me recently when I went to my physical therapy
evaluation and she asked, so, do.
Speaker 1 (02:32):
You live alone?
Speaker 2 (02:33):
I said no, I have a partner, but he's not
here right now. And she was like, oh, but you
don't live alone, like she majored. I'm like no. She's
like okay, great, great, great, And I was like wait,
what wait, what why what I mean, I understand if
we need to care for her, but I'm like, but
he's not there when I'm going through this, so I
don't know why this is.
Speaker 1 (02:50):
Well, yeah, it was strange. It was strange how often
it got bought up. And I just got the impression
that they thought I was like the saddest possibly on
drugs patient, but because they were very quick to be like, oh,
this is stress. Do you live alone? Like all of
these things. Another thing that came up that I mentioned
(03:15):
very briefly but I've learned is something that's really happening
a lot right now is that I got a lot
of oh, you're too young, you're too young for that,
You're too young for this. And outside of just my
experience hearing that, I've heard that multiple times, I've heard
that throughout my life. I've recently learned independently of what
(03:41):
happened to me, there has been an increase in a
lot of cancers amongst younger people, and a lot of
times it'll be dismissed of, like oh you're too young.
And I do think will we run a classic about
self diagnosing, I think that's like tied up in it.
(04:03):
But there has been an increase of younger Americans, in
particularly women who you know, go in and they're like,
you know, I have all these symptoms and like, oh,
you're too young, that's that can't be it. It just
happens sometimes, or it's just this, or it's just stress.
That's what a lot of people got and that's what
(04:24):
I got too. Oh, it's just stress. And then they
go multiple times over the years, and then unfortunately, finally
somebody's like, oh, no, you have cancer or something like
something very serious, and they're like, yeah, I've been I
knew something was wrong. I knew something was wrong, and
(04:48):
it's just kind of frustrating because I get it. I
have a lot of friends who work in the medical industry,
and I've heard their complaints about people who come in
like all the time and are not honest with their symptoms.
I actually think I kind of hamstrung myself with how
honest I was being because I knew that, and so
(05:09):
I was trying to be so honest and I feel
like I kind of downplayed my symptoms.
Speaker 2 (05:15):
Oh that's what I do.
Speaker 1 (05:16):
Yeah, because at first they kept asking about heart pain
and I was like, it's more of a tightness but
it had been a pain earlier, but they didn't ask
about earlier. They just asked about then, and so I
was just trying to be like honest and be like, no,
right now, it's just a tightness. And I was really
and they gave me like the pain scale, and I
was like, I don't know, yeah, I can barely focus
(05:39):
right now.
Speaker 2 (05:40):
That is so misleading because I always put lower numbers
in my head because I don't know. And then like
we've talked about like pain tolerance, like what what? Because
I was basing it without any like references. The pain
scale on mine was like, you know, at three, it's
mild pain, at nine, at eight, it's like moderate pain. Wait,
and that'd be that's a high number to me, but
(06:02):
I'm like, no, it was definitely. So I would always
put myself at five, six, seven, because I didn't want
to be like, you know, it's not awful. But then
like the on the scale says nine you can't sleep.
I was like, oh, yeah, I was there, but I
wouldn't have described that's nine because it was bad. I
hated it, but it wasn't the worst thing that I've
ever gone through. So I was like, how's that a nine.
So in my mind it was a seven because yes,
(06:23):
it's it's not working. Someone needs to redo this, revamp this.
Speaker 1 (06:28):
I agree, I do the same thing. I'm like, it
sounds wild to me to be like, oh, yeah, it's
a nine unless I'm on the verge of the most painful.
Speaker 2 (06:37):
Death exactly, like nine is almost death and ten is dead.
Speaker 1 (06:43):
But painful death. So I was they were asking me
and I didn't even have the scale in front of me.
I was like, I don't know, right, why are you
asking me these questions?
Speaker 2 (06:54):
These are so like internative.
Speaker 1 (06:57):
Right right, And I know that's that's difficult. People are.
They do experience pain differently, so it is tricky. But
I just felt like at that moment, that was not
what I needed to see or hear. I just but
it was also one of those things where, yeah, I'm stressed.
(07:18):
I have been stressed. I think a lot of us
are stressed. But I think within the first like five
minutes when I got in the hospital, that I could
stress before they'd done anything else. And it was just
sort of like it was frustrated. It was downhearted because
I'd finally taken like a move and I thought I
was about to die and I did something about it,
(07:39):
and here they are like, yeah, you're too young, you're
too young. Okay, well great, can't wait to get the
bill for that. And that being said, I really get it,
I really do. Everybody was really nice, and they had
just installed a new system, so it was kind of
chaotic were fighting about because somebody was like, oh, she's
(08:02):
too young for that, and the guy was like, did
you see what I saw?
Speaker 2 (08:07):
Did well?
Speaker 1 (08:08):
Yeah, I don't know. I think that that whole kind
of dismissal. We probably shouldn't do that. I get that,
like maybe statistics would indicate, but they're changing clearly obviously.
So I'm also not that young. I'm young, but I
got that right anyway. I just wanted to clarify those
(08:35):
those points as I still work through this whole experience,
as I'm still navigating it, because I haven't been still
the doctor and embarrassing in a long time too, so
it's I think I'm like kind of still in not shock,
but oh yeah, that's what it was like. Because I
had a lot of doctors when I was young be like, oh,
that can't be right.
Speaker 2 (08:55):
Right.
Speaker 1 (08:55):
A week later, I'm in a hospital and I'm like, oh, Yeah,
turns out that's about right. That's about right. Okay, so
more health updates and I'm sure Read and Samantha will
be back again with more. Oh, I didn't even mention.
There's a whole thing about on the other end of
(09:15):
doctors being told they're too younger all the time. So
I do want to mention that I believe that, I
think that's probably a thing. So if you have any
experiences with that on either side, please write in and
let us know. You can email us at Hello at
stuff Ienever Told You dot com. You can also find
us on Blue Skype, Master Podcast, on Instagram and to
talk at stuff When Never Told You. We're also on
(09:36):
YouTube and we have a book you can get wherever
you get in your books. Thanks it's always to our
super just Christine, our executive producer and a contributor, Joey,
Thank you, and thanks to you for listening Stuff Whenever
Told You, the production of by Heart Radio. For more
podcasts on my heart Radio, you can check out the
heart Radio app Apple Podcast, where we listen to your
favorite shows
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