A spiteful pregnancy test turned into quite a surprise when we found out my(m25) partner(f22) was pregnant - and 7 months along. That's a story for another time.
Anyways, her OBGYN put her on iron and blood pressure medication. And gave her stool softeners because constipation could be a side effect of the medications they gave her.
Well, I felt a little backed up the day before yesterday. I usually struggle in the bathroom, if we're being honest. So I decided what's the harm in taking a pregnancy strength stool softener?
A lot of harm, actually.
So nothing happened that night. Thought they were a fluke and went to bed. I woke up and was fine for a while. Felt ready to tackle the day. Until a fever hit and I started sweating. Started shivering. I felt like I was encroaching on death's doorstep. My stomach rumbled and as a construction worker who was thankful there was a working bathroom on my job site, I had started a vicious cycle of expelling my immune system.
It happened 15 times before I went on lunch. FIFTEEN. TIMES. On the way home I had to stop twice to use a bathroom. Even after I had stopped shitting my brains out, I felt like a soldier coming home from war. I'm pretty sure my asshole is destroyed. I think I'm coming down sick because my entire immune system has left me.
It looks like a week of Pedialyte and crackers for me.
TL;DR I took my wife's pregnancy strength stool softeners, shitted out my entire immune system and now I'm coming down sick.
I (48M) think that I may have F'd up. My wife (58F) blamed something on the "woke" and I told her that I felt myself as "woke' because I accept the LGBTQI+ demographic, and that I accept anyone regardless of race, creed, religion, or sexuality.
Needless to say we had an argument, first in a good half dozen years or so.
I love her with all myself, but feel that she's becoming more, I don't know exactly, but it feels like she's become more racist, homophobic and unaccepting in the last few years. I reckon that it all started with the Johnny Debb v Amber Herd trial. And now she's watching YouTube videos of Tarot card readers predicting the Sussexes future.
It was cool and all when she watched "ghost" videos, but now she can't even really accept that one of her BFFs from years ago is/was gay. "Just another person to help her get through her life at the time".
I'm scarred that because I feel that I'm "woke" to the world around me and acceptant of those that aren't accepted, that I fucked up our relationship. It hurts.
TL:DR My wife blamed "wokeness" on the worlds problems and I told her that I feel that I'm part of those that are "woke".