3. What was the biggest 'plot twist' that happened in your life?

What was the biggest 'plot twist' that happened in your life?

This is not really on the level of some of these comments I've seen in this thread already, but I'll tell this quick story.

Almost about this time, a year ago, I started noticing that my left leg was aching a lot more. Soon, my foot started swelling up little by little, and then my leg. At that point, I couldn't even walk, and I was super scared. I had no idea what was going on. So, because we didn't know what to do first, we went up to the college clinic in my town to see if they could give me some sort of help on whether or not I should go to the hospital. They really didn't give me any useful information, so we went.

My leg was super swollen, and foot too. It was almost purple. After a bunch of tests, they found out I had May Thurner's Syndrome. In ELI5 terms, my iliac artery was compressing my iliac vein, causing a blood clot from my groin to my foot (but I don't have it nearly as bad as some people, google it). They gave me blood thinners for a few months, and for 2 weeks made me inject shots into my belly daily. The night I got home from the hospital, my groin-surgery wound opened up again and started bleeding. Scary shit, man.

I guess the "plot twist" was just the fact that I'd never really had anything wrong with me. I really never get sick, besides the occasional mild cold, and as far as I'm concerned, I'm in good shape. It just scared the shit out of me, and really taught me from a personal perspective how much I value life.

The scariest real moment was just having the thought that this blood clot could break away from my leg into my lungs & heart, which would just kill me. I don't think I was really in much danger of that happening, but I knew it was possible. I'd heard stories from people I love about life-threatening things they've gone through like surgeries & whatnot, but I'd never had the real chance to experience it.

Now, I still check my leg every day to see if it's swelling up at all. I thought being really skinny was a sort of good thing, but now I know I'm more susceptible to blood clots.

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