June 12, 2025 • 12 mins
A recent health incident sent Anney to the ER. Here are some of her thoughts.
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Speaker 1 (00:05):
Hey, this is Anny and Samantha.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
I do want to stuff I never told you production of
My Heart Radio. And it is Thursday as this comes out,
so that means it's time for another happy hour. As always,
if you choose to drink or whatever you choose to do,
(00:27):
please do so responsibly. Samantha, are you drinking any.
Speaker 1 (00:30):
I'm drinking one of your least favorite drinks, a dr
pepper cherry zero.
Speaker 2 (00:35):
Yeah. No, I just have coffee. Still. It was quite
cold by now. But anyway, all right, today we've got
a lot going on, so this will be a short one.
I just wanted to talk very briefly about my experience
at the emergency room recently. I'm not going to get
(01:00):
too specific, but if you just don't want to hear
about any of that, I understand. So there's your content warning.
Uh So, the basic, like short version of this is
that I've been having what I'm calling episodes every day
for like a week, and they were getting worse and worse,
(01:22):
and I had made an appointment to go to the doctor,
and uh, it just reached the point that I couldn't
wait anymore and I had to go in an ambulance.
Speaker 1 (01:35):
And oh, you called an ambulance. I went back and
forth about asking you that thought maybe you were just
ubered over there.
Speaker 2 (01:41):
I was going to but the situation was so bad
I I was like, I'm going to die in this
person's car. But also on top of that, I couldn't
It sounded bad like if I had gotten into somebody's car,
I couldn't breathe. Essentially, if I had gotten into some
car like that, I think they would have been like, oh,
(02:02):
no kidding.
Speaker 1 (02:03):
I want to get you from your house. Did they
come in there with a stretcher? Or you did not
tell me any of this, and you made it sound
like you're a doctor's appointment. I want everyone to know this.
Speaker 2 (02:12):
Okay, Well, a part of this is because I was
really embarrassed. So one of the things I wanted to
talk about actually does relate to that, because you and
I both said we we wait. We wait until it's like, oh,
something is wrong, I must go. And I I was
(02:34):
going to go to urgent care because, as I've said,
I don't have a primary care physician. They won't accept
you if you have those symptoms. They tell you to
go to the emergency room, go somewhere else. Yeah, So
like I was gonna go to urgent care when I
wasn't experiencing whatever that was, but they wouldn't take me then,
(02:57):
So then I called another number, which is apparently an
where you can call where you're like, should I go?
Should I call nine? With one? And they were like
yes immediately, Why did you wait this long?
Speaker 1 (03:08):
Why are you calling us?
Speaker 2 (03:10):
I know? And by that part, I could barely talk.
I could barely like see, I couldn't like move my finger.
So it's like even calling was it was. It was bad.
It was very, very bad. But I was embarrassed by
it because I felt like I was like drawing attention
to myself. I was like being a baby, and that
(03:30):
feeling was made worse because I do feel like they
kind of dismissed me. I mostly had a really great
experience with like everybody. Everybody was really kind and listen
to me. But because I was in this like whirlpool
of oh god, this is going to cost me so
much money, Oh my god, I might die at any minute,
and I'm thinking about the money, Oh my God, like
(03:52):
like oh in the clothes I was wearing because it
was morning and I hadn't changed on my pajamas yet
So that was embarrassing and empt with pree hot, which
my mom had a story about when she was in
a car accident and they had to cut off her
clothes and it was her cush and I kept thinking
about that.
Speaker 1 (04:12):
Well, we had a listener, because I remember that was
my fear. I was like, they're going to cut off
my clothes and the person who our listener was like, yeah,
they do. JUSTI flysy why.
Speaker 2 (04:24):
You asked and answer? Well, but by that point I
could have cared less. I was like, I'm about to
die right here, so I don't care you're seeing all
of my body. But I was more embarrassed because it
felt like I did. I didn't want to call. I
didn't want to do any of this. Quite frankly, I
(04:47):
know no one wants to, but I was really putting
it off for a long time. I didn't want to
do it, and they don't know me, right, so to them,
maybe I am just like, I don't know, like a
very a worried person who called at the least at
the first sign of something might be wrong. But it
(05:08):
wasn't that. And so at one point they asked me
if I was stressed, and I was like yes, and
they were like why, and I was like, what world
do you live in? But again, by at this point,
I could barely speak and I could barely concentrate, but
they just basically kind of wrote it off of stress.
After that, They're like, oh, she's stressed, even though I
(05:29):
had all of these other symptoms and I wrote them
down because it had been happening so often that it
was going to show them to the doctor, but I couldn't.
It just all happened so fast and I was so
out of it. I didn't show them any of them.
But it just kind of felt like, again, they don't
(05:49):
know me. I've had panic attacks my whole life, most
my whole adult life, I'll say, and I know how
they feel like, and I know that and be really scary.
But I'm really good at them, actually, Like I'm good
at knowing how to breathe through them. I know how
(06:10):
to do the things, and I have been doing those
things and they weren't working. And that's not to say
it wasn't a panic attack, but it's just I just
kind of felt annoyed that they were so like, oh,
she's just having a panic attack, when I was like, oh,
this is a serious, Like I even looked up the
ambulance codes later because I remembered them, and I was like, no,
(06:32):
you guys thought this was pretty bad.
Speaker 1 (06:34):
Oh really?
Speaker 2 (06:36):
Yeah, they sure did. I was also speaking kind of nonsense,
and I'm kind of worried they think I'm on drug.
But they did a bunch of tests. They took a
lot of blood, and they did they ran a lot
of tests, so I feel like that might just be reprojecting.
But I was kind of like, just randomly I'd be
I'd say something like, did you know most heart attacks
(06:58):
happened at eleven? And then I would apologize it's like,
you know more than about this thing?
Speaker 1 (07:10):
Maybe not?
Speaker 2 (07:12):
Maybe not, maybe not. They were all very nice about it.
I think a lot of this was in my head,
but I was kind of annoyed by We talked about
that a lot when we get dismissed when they come in,
and I just felt like they so quick were like,
you're too young for this to be anything other than
a panic attack, and I'm like, no, that kind of
stuff happens, right. But anyway, I then felt worse, like
(07:45):
I felt like I shouldn't have bothered anybody. I felt
like maybe I was being like over like I'd overdone it,
even though I'd taken all these steps and not even
called that number. And then I was like, I can't
ask anybody about it. But I did finally ask the
nurse and I was like, should I have come in?
And she did say yes, But what else is she
(08:06):
going to say? But anyway, that all has to do
with the kind of insecurity around should I have bothered anybody?
Should I have called? Should I have sought help? Should
I have cared enough about myself to seek help. It
also was a teaching hospital, which I love, but it
was kind of weird to be like they're like, look
(08:26):
at this vein, come over here, no please? But everyone
was super nice. I loved it was fine. It was
really fine. They were mostly women, I will say mostly
it was mostly black women, so that was interesting, and
I did go through fifteen people. It's sort of a
hospital where they like they moved to you, like you're
(08:47):
in one room and they bring their desk and their
equipment into you. So that was interesting. And then another
thing that came up that I think we'll have to
come back and revisit is being a sexual and that
was just kind of strange. To be like, why is this.
I really feel like there are other things we don't
(09:08):
need to worry about the sexual health right now. But
that's that's for a future day. I know a lot
of those questions are standard. Yeah, and I know a
lot of it is. I get why they asked, but
I have to say I was a little like, no,
I'm a little annoyed by this.
Speaker 1 (09:26):
This is not what I need.
Speaker 2 (09:28):
No, No, I'm actually really I was talking about my heart.
My heart just going wild.
Speaker 1 (09:35):
I do not touch penis, leave me alone.
Speaker 2 (09:40):
Yes, exactly exactly, but yeah, I'm seeking out fallow up care.
It went. I mean, no news is good news. As
the doctor told me when I came in, She's like,
I hope you never see me again. Like okay, but
so it went. It went fine, and I'm still I
ended struggling with the fought out of the emotions I
(10:02):
have from it. But yeah, that's all. I just wanted
to touch on some of the things that some of
the thoughts I had after this experience.
Speaker 1 (10:13):
I'm glad you're okay, and now I'll be texting you
every day to check in on you. You're welcome.
Speaker 2 (10:18):
Used to call that the old lady text we had
a name for it.
Speaker 1 (10:23):
I don't remember saying makeing sure you're alive text.
Speaker 2 (10:25):
Yeah, well that was one of the things. They kind
of were like, why did you do this? Because I
came downstairs and they're like, you shouldn't have done that,
And I was like, I was worried I die alone
in my apartment, so I wanted to come out here
and die on the street so at least someone find me.
I'm really it was really bad and I'm laughing at it,
but I promise you it was bad. But but the
(10:50):
test came back and that was nice. It came back
looking in my favor, and I'm going to fall up
and see what it might have been.
Speaker 1 (10:57):
Yeah, I feel like you need to reschedule for a
closer date.
Speaker 2 (11:00):
Doctor.
Speaker 1 (11:00):
I was gonna tell you that. Now I got to
on Mike, I'll tell you that.
Speaker 2 (11:03):
Okay. Yeah, that's a whole other episode is the difficulty
of finding a doctor, because they did really point me
in any direction. They they gave me a lot of resources,
but I'm like, kind just a general doctor. What yes,
but uh, I'll report back in the meantime. Listeners, we
(11:26):
hope all is well with you. We love you. If
you would like to email as you can our emails
Hello at stuff I Never Told You dot Com. You
can guy us on Blue Sky I'm most a podcast,
or on Instagram and TikTok at stuff I Never Told
You or ls on YouTube. We have a tea tug
Story and we have a book you can get where
we get your books. Thanks as always too our serper
producer Christina or executive producer My and a contributor Joey.
(11:47):
Thank you and thanks to you for listening. Stuff I
Never Told You is protection of my Heart Radio. More
podcast from my Heart Radio. You can check out the
art radio app Apple Podcasts wherever you listen to your
favorite shows.
Hey, this is Anny and Samantha.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
I do want to stuff I never told you production of
My Heart Radio. And it is Thursday as this comes out,
so that means it's time for another happy hour. As always,
if you choose to drink or whatever you choose to do,
(00:27):
please do so responsibly. Samantha, are you drinking any.
Speaker 1 (00:30):
I'm drinking one of your least favorite drinks, a dr
pepper cherry zero.
Speaker 2 (00:35):
Yeah. No, I just have coffee. Still. It was quite
cold by now. But anyway, all right, today we've got
a lot going on, so this will be a short one.
I just wanted to talk very briefly about my experience
at the emergency room recently. I'm not going to get
(01:00):
too specific, but if you just don't want to hear
about any of that, I understand. So there's your content warning.
Uh So, the basic, like short version of this is
that I've been having what I'm calling episodes every day
for like a week, and they were getting worse and worse,
(01:22):
and I had made an appointment to go to the doctor,
and uh, it just reached the point that I couldn't
wait anymore and I had to go in an ambulance.
Speaker 1 (01:35):
And oh, you called an ambulance. I went back and
forth about asking you that thought maybe you were just
ubered over there.
Speaker 2 (01:41):
I was going to but the situation was so bad
I I was like, I'm going to die in this
person's car. But also on top of that, I couldn't
It sounded bad like if I had gotten into somebody's car,
I couldn't breathe. Essentially, if I had gotten into some
car like that, I think they would have been like, oh,
(02:02):
no kidding.
Speaker 1 (02:03):
I want to get you from your house. Did they
come in there with a stretcher? Or you did not
tell me any of this, and you made it sound
like you're a doctor's appointment. I want everyone to know this.
Speaker 2 (02:12):
Okay, Well, a part of this is because I was
really embarrassed. So one of the things I wanted to
talk about actually does relate to that, because you and
I both said we we wait. We wait until it's like, oh,
something is wrong, I must go. And I I was
(02:34):
going to go to urgent care because, as I've said,
I don't have a primary care physician. They won't accept
you if you have those symptoms. They tell you to
go to the emergency room, go somewhere else. Yeah, So
like I was gonna go to urgent care when I
wasn't experiencing whatever that was, but they wouldn't take me then,
(02:57):
So then I called another number, which is apparently an
where you can call where you're like, should I go?
Should I call nine? With one? And they were like
yes immediately, Why did you wait this long?
Speaker 1 (03:08):
Why are you calling us?
Speaker 2 (03:10):
I know? And by that part, I could barely talk.
I could barely like see, I couldn't like move my finger.
So it's like even calling was it was. It was bad.
It was very, very bad. But I was embarrassed by
it because I felt like I was like drawing attention
to myself. I was like being a baby, and that
(03:30):
feeling was made worse because I do feel like they
kind of dismissed me. I mostly had a really great
experience with like everybody. Everybody was really kind and listen
to me. But because I was in this like whirlpool
of oh god, this is going to cost me so
much money, Oh my god, I might die at any minute,
and I'm thinking about the money, Oh my God, like
(03:52):
like oh in the clothes I was wearing because it
was morning and I hadn't changed on my pajamas yet
So that was embarrassing and empt with pree hot, which
my mom had a story about when she was in
a car accident and they had to cut off her
clothes and it was her cush and I kept thinking
about that.
Speaker 1 (04:12):
Well, we had a listener, because I remember that was
my fear. I was like, they're going to cut off
my clothes and the person who our listener was like, yeah,
they do. JUSTI flysy why.
Speaker 2 (04:24):
You asked and answer? Well, but by that point I
could have cared less. I was like, I'm about to
die right here, so I don't care you're seeing all
of my body. But I was more embarrassed because it
felt like I did. I didn't want to call. I
didn't want to do any of this. Quite frankly, I
(04:47):
know no one wants to, but I was really putting
it off for a long time. I didn't want to
do it, and they don't know me, right, so to them,
maybe I am just like, I don't know, like a
very a worried person who called at the least at
the first sign of something might be wrong. But it
(05:08):
wasn't that. And so at one point they asked me
if I was stressed, and I was like yes, and
they were like why, and I was like, what world
do you live in? But again, by at this point,
I could barely speak and I could barely concentrate, but
they just basically kind of wrote it off of stress.
After that, They're like, oh, she's stressed, even though I
(05:29):
had all of these other symptoms and I wrote them
down because it had been happening so often that it
was going to show them to the doctor, but I couldn't.
It just all happened so fast and I was so
out of it. I didn't show them any of them.
But it just kind of felt like, again, they don't
(05:49):
know me. I've had panic attacks my whole life, most
my whole adult life, I'll say, and I know how
they feel like, and I know that and be really scary.
But I'm really good at them, actually, Like I'm good
at knowing how to breathe through them. I know how
(06:10):
to do the things, and I have been doing those
things and they weren't working. And that's not to say
it wasn't a panic attack, but it's just I just
kind of felt annoyed that they were so like, oh,
she's just having a panic attack, when I was like, oh,
this is a serious, Like I even looked up the
ambulance codes later because I remembered them, and I was like, no,
(06:32):
you guys thought this was pretty bad.
Speaker 1 (06:34):
Oh really?
Speaker 2 (06:36):
Yeah, they sure did. I was also speaking kind of nonsense,
and I'm kind of worried they think I'm on drug.
But they did a bunch of tests. They took a
lot of blood, and they did they ran a lot
of tests, so I feel like that might just be reprojecting.
But I was kind of like, just randomly I'd be
I'd say something like, did you know most heart attacks
(06:58):
happened at eleven? And then I would apologize it's like,
you know more than about this thing?
Speaker 1 (07:10):
Maybe not?
Speaker 2 (07:12):
Maybe not, maybe not. They were all very nice about it.
I think a lot of this was in my head,
but I was kind of annoyed by We talked about
that a lot when we get dismissed when they come in,
and I just felt like they so quick were like,
you're too young for this to be anything other than
a panic attack, and I'm like, no, that kind of
stuff happens, right. But anyway, I then felt worse, like
(07:45):
I felt like I shouldn't have bothered anybody. I felt
like maybe I was being like over like I'd overdone it,
even though I'd taken all these steps and not even
called that number. And then I was like, I can't
ask anybody about it. But I did finally ask the
nurse and I was like, should I have come in?
And she did say yes, But what else is she
(08:06):
going to say? But anyway, that all has to do
with the kind of insecurity around should I have bothered anybody?
Should I have called? Should I have sought help? Should
I have cared enough about myself to seek help. It
also was a teaching hospital, which I love, but it
was kind of weird to be like they're like, look
(08:26):
at this vein, come over here, no please? But everyone
was super nice. I loved it was fine. It was
really fine. They were mostly women, I will say mostly
it was mostly black women, so that was interesting, and
I did go through fifteen people. It's sort of a
hospital where they like they moved to you, like you're
(08:47):
in one room and they bring their desk and their
equipment into you. So that was interesting. And then another
thing that came up that I think we'll have to
come back and revisit is being a sexual and that
was just kind of strange. To be like, why is this.
I really feel like there are other things we don't
(09:08):
need to worry about the sexual health right now. But
that's that's for a future day. I know a lot
of those questions are standard. Yeah, and I know a
lot of it is. I get why they asked, but
I have to say I was a little like, no,
I'm a little annoyed by this.
Speaker 1 (09:26):
This is not what I need.
Speaker 2 (09:28):
No, No, I'm actually really I was talking about my heart.
My heart just going wild.
Speaker 1 (09:35):
I do not touch penis, leave me alone.
Speaker 2 (09:40):
Yes, exactly exactly, but yeah, I'm seeking out fallow up care.
It went. I mean, no news is good news. As
the doctor told me when I came in, She's like,
I hope you never see me again. Like okay, but
so it went. It went fine, and I'm still I
ended struggling with the fought out of the emotions I
(10:02):
have from it. But yeah, that's all. I just wanted
to touch on some of the things that some of
the thoughts I had after this experience.
Speaker 1 (10:13):
I'm glad you're okay, and now I'll be texting you
every day to check in on you. You're welcome.
Speaker 2 (10:18):
Used to call that the old lady text we had
a name for it.
Speaker 1 (10:23):
I don't remember saying makeing sure you're alive text.
Speaker 2 (10:25):
Yeah, well that was one of the things. They kind
of were like, why did you do this? Because I
came downstairs and they're like, you shouldn't have done that,
And I was like, I was worried I die alone
in my apartment, so I wanted to come out here
and die on the street so at least someone find me.
I'm really it was really bad and I'm laughing at it,
but I promise you it was bad. But but the
(10:50):
test came back and that was nice. It came back
looking in my favor, and I'm going to fall up
and see what it might have been.
Speaker 1 (10:57):
Yeah, I feel like you need to reschedule for a
closer date.
Speaker 2 (11:00):
Doctor.
Speaker 1 (11:00):
I was gonna tell you that. Now I got to
on Mike, I'll tell you that.
Speaker 2 (11:03):
Okay. Yeah, that's a whole other episode is the difficulty
of finding a doctor, because they did really point me
in any direction. They they gave me a lot of resources,
but I'm like, kind just a general doctor. What yes,
but uh, I'll report back in the meantime. Listeners, we
(11:26):
hope all is well with you. We love you. If
you would like to email as you can our emails
Hello at stuff I Never Told You dot Com. You
can guy us on Blue Sky I'm most a podcast,
or on Instagram and TikTok at stuff I Never Told
You or ls on YouTube. We have a tea tug
Story and we have a book you can get where
we get your books. Thanks as always too our serper
producer Christina or executive producer My and a contributor Joey.
(11:47):
Thank you and thanks to you for listening. Stuff I
Never Told You is protection of my Heart Radio. More
podcast from my Heart Radio. You can check out the
art radio app Apple Podcasts wherever you listen to your
favorite shows.
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