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I (33f) and my husband (34m) live in a little suburban neighborhood. We got really lucky when it comes to our neighbors. Every so often when we are out of town, or if they are, we will grab each other's deliveries. Sometimes we've even brought back little treats or things from vacation. (10/10 would neighbor again. I will be super sad when we move one day.)

Now, like your average millennial, I spend probably too much of my disposal income on Amazon. I usually every 2 weeks will make a purchase on stuff I need/want in the house. I try to line it up with my paychecks, so I don't spend too much and go in to credit card debt.

So on this particular order I probably had about 10 items. Cotton balls, nail polish remover, some new earrings, etc etc. But in particular I saw a really cute cheap set of lingerie that I wanted to buy. I also finally saved up to buy a mini steam cleaner vacuum so I could do some deep cleaning around the house.

Now! Because I had ordered so many items at once, my items were being delivered on different days. No worries, we have Amazon prime. I live close to a warehouse. I work from home. We mostly stay home. We got this.

Except for, my husband has been dealing with stomach pain on and off for the past 9 months. It has been noticably really bad for the past 3-4 months. He's had "the tummy rumbles" and "stage 4 gurglies" for the past few days. His family has a medical history of, politely put, "bad guts". (Which in all honesty is part of why he refused to see a doctor. He blamed it on his "bad guts").

Now, I love my husband to pieces, but the man does not go to the doctor. Ever. He also likes to claim he never gets sick. Alas.

So Saturday morning rolls around and he mentions "if my stomach hurts this bad tomorrow I might want you to take me to urgent care."

Alarm bells. My husband never wants to go to a medical facility. He always teledocs. I tell him we're going right now if he's even considering it, that means it's bad.

(To be fair, he grew up in a house with parents who were medical professionals. He only goes if he really needs to. He isn't anti doctor.)

Roll up to urgent care and one CT scan later: my husband is now being transferred to a hospital for a surgery consult to now possibly get his appendix out as it is infected and inflamed. His surrounding organs are also pretty inflamed and a bit swollen, so it's a tricky situation. We got to urgent care around 11 am. At the hospital around 9pm. Still waiting, still waiting, surgery? No surgery? When are we gonna see the doctor. Etc.

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Background: I am a member of a Native American tribe, and therefore I get free basic dental and medical care at certain Indian Health Clinics. I do not have any documentation proving that I am a tribal member as I lost it years ago, but my dad does and he is located in San Diego.

I have severe GERD and it does serious damage to my teeth. Brushing and flossing can only do so much to help when constant acid is rising from my esophagus. I don’t have insurance and it’s not easy for me to get care so I have kind of just been using daily tums and hoping for the best. However, a few months ago all my teeth started falling apart. At least 2 of them have chipped and I have multiple painful cavities all over my mouth (like more than 10) and my mouth hurts excruciatingly whenever I chew anything. Maybe I need root canals Idk. Not wanting to surrender to dentures, two months ago I called the Indian Health Clinic near my dad and they said they would accept my dad’s tribal membership as proof of my own and I scheduled the nearest appointment out, which was for this afternoon. The way it works is that if they do an initial examination and it shows emergency work is needed they can schedule me to come back in the following days and I won’t have to wait 2 months in between.

So I booked a non refundable hostel for a week and a plane flight for spirit airlines to get me there several hours before my appointment. This was the fuck up, but It was the cheapest option and the trip was going to take all of the money I could spare. If I had paid a little more with a different airline or to get there a day early this wouldn’t have happened.

I got to the airport at 4 am, checked in, and sat at the gate. Right as everyone was preparing to board, the spirit employee behind the counter at the gate suddenly announced the flight was cancelled with no explanation. People were saying it was because the pilot didn’t show up but I have no idea if that’s true. After waiting in line to talk to the spirit employee, they have no flight they can rebook for me until tomorrow, well past my appointment. She told me she could give me a refund on my $120 ticket that I could shop around at other airline counters with, but those tickets were for $500. I decided to get it on credit, but the travel app wouldn’t sell it to me because I had “another similar trip leaving at around the same time” and when it finally let me confirm I wanted it anyway, it had “just sold out while I was booking”

The remaining tickets are now $1,200 and I can’t afford that. There is no way for me to get to my appointment and save my teeth. By the time I could do this again in several months it will definitely be too late.

TLDR chose to fly spirit and now I lose all my teeth and continue living in agony.

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Hello all! I’m on mobile, so excuse the formatting.

I (20 F) am a huge Legend of Zelda fan, so when the new game was announced I was ecstatic. When May 11th finally came I rushed from work early, a coffee shop, with drinks in hand for my friends and I to wait until midnight release. We went over to our lovely GameStop early, and in one swig I chugged my iced coffee on an empty stomach.

The excitement was really, truly starting to build within me as my friends and I waited for the games release. I just needed them for emotional support because I knew I would start crying in a moments notice. However, I realized that coffee wasn’t sitting right. I just blamed it on the excitement and the amount of sugar I had consumed. When we were allowed inside, I realized the led lights within the store seemed a bit too bright. I was starting to feel cold and clammy as well. I, again, chalked it up to my excitement. My heart was pounding and I was absolutely buzzing to get my hands on this game and go ham in my dark basement.

That’s when my body gave me the signal. The “oh no” signal, when all the blood rushes from my head to my stomach and I start salivating. I looked at my friend in horror, as GameStop doesn’t have a bathroom, and shoved my purse in her hands. I took my car keys and ran out the door, the nearest bathroom a gas station down the road. It was too late, however, as I went to get into my car disaster struck. I gagged.

I could feel the excitement and the coffee coming up and so I did the only thing I could do. I hid behind my car, kneeled down and puked. I took a moment to take a breath and vomited again, looking up to see headlights directly in my eyes. I awkwardly waved as this person proceeds to park right next to my car, and my spit up. I slowly stood, realizing I had gotten vomit on my knee, and waddled into my car. I sat there and contemplated whether or not to go back inside after I had just literally puked my guts out from being so excited. But! With my body feeling much better after the release of emotions, I hopped in and realized my friend who had parked beside me also was inside. And he did NOT want to be near me.

The employees heard what happened and thought it was hilarious. My friends took a picture of me next to the vomit with my game in hand.

I start my first shift at that GameStop today, lol.

TLDR: Got so excited for the TOTK release I puked in the parking lot. Twice.

Edit: since everyone wants to see it… here’s the picture spit-up selfie

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