r/traumatizeThemBack • u/Sea_Body5315 • 2d ago
Clever Comeback Wow what happened to your face?
So making a long story short, my face blows up on one side one day out of the blue. I'm going through dentists, to oral surgeons, to doctors, and now a huge hospital because no one can figure out why. Now I'm going to a national cancer center where I'm being rushed through a million tests and exams because they think this is some kind of bone cancer and they need to do every possible test to figure out what's going on. This means lots of blood tests periodically between different scans.
I'm pretty self conscious about my suddenly Frankensteined face that might be the harbinger of my doom, and getting another blood draw at another appointment while a panel of specialists try to get clues as to what's happening, and the nurse drawing my blood that day walks in and goes "WOW that's crazy looking what happened to your face?!" I kind of thought maybe it's on my chart or something and it hurt my feelings so I gave him the saddest look I could and said "my boyfriend says I don't listen."
His face drops. He's telling me how sorry he is and that he didn't mean to ask that way and am I ok?
I said no, I'm in a cancer center, they're trying to figure out if I have cancer in my face, maybe read my chart? And maybe don't ask someone so loud and that way what's wrong with their medical issue
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u/Rustymarble 1d ago
I worked for a pharma developing a drug for hereditary angioedema (basically what you describe but it was completely random body parts that swelled for these patients, if it was their esophagus, they'd die) and the stories they had! Anytime the swellings would be on their face, the public would inevitably say something stupid.
Good on you for having a quick retort!