Even your bones have pain receptors and we don't currently have any anaesthesia that works for that (at least nothing that's readily available). I've had a bone marrow sample taken, and despite having been given quite a large amount of anaesthesia, when they reached the bone I could feel everything.
That is untrue. Your heart also does not have pain receptors, which is why the surrounding parts like your arm will experience pain signals. Your innards aren't *well* innervated compared to your skin and musculature, so Simon is kind of correct; the need for anesthesia is diminished, but not absent.
@@iankelley9704 While you are technically correct, there is literally a thing called "broken heart syndrome" that's etymology is unknown but the leading hypothesis is lack of bloodflow stemming from increased emotional stress. Another hypothesis is the Chordae tendineae that work with the valves have a tendency to make you feel like your heart (the actual organ) is in pain. Not the chest surrounding tissue. Also, I will have you know visceral and bone pain can be immensely more painful than anything related to the skin or musculature. Just noticed you wrote that which is insane.
That's definitely wrong lol Peritonitis infection wouldn't have taken place,without having the appendix burst first...So it's definitely the bursting of the appendix that leads to death..
Mine burst as it was being removed. I was on antibiotics for fourteen days to prevent the infection. It's down to luck that they were removing it when it burst, bc of how long the school I was attending waited to call my mom. Doctors said that had it burst before then, the odds of the infection killing me would have been far higher. The infection that kills people starts after the appendix bursts
That 'blorp of infected pus and/or bacteria dropping into your abdominal cavity would...be bad. Just...bad. But "Bad" written in silver-flecked calligraphy. In 5-inch-tall script. And maybe on fire. Fire-calligraphy...of sepsis. Or something. Anyway!
@@tanyasawyer5476my mom's appendix went a few years ago. It took way too long for her doctor to figure it out. She was told she was lucky her appendix leaked instead of bursting meaning the infection was localised instead of the bursting spreading the infection threw out her abdomen.
I had a very bizarre case of appendicitis. Not only was I so little at the time that I only remembered it via stories, but my appendix not only popped once but tried to repair itself and popped again. I don’t recall how many times it happened but weird is putting it lightly.
My father had appendicitis shortly before I was born. My mother still remembers the terrible agony he was in that night before she phoned for an ambulance and he went to hospital and immediately into the operating theatre to have it removed. It wasn’t far off bursting and he was lucky to have it removed quickly and safely so he recovered swiftly following the operation. None of us have ever suffered from appendicitis, at least not yet and I’m glad that being a pharmacist myself now means I know exactly what to look for !
I lost my appendix just shy of my third birthday. My mom took me to several appointments tying to figure out what was wrong. Finally one day, when I was in horrible pain, she threw me in the backseat of the car for a 20 minute drive to the ER. They did an exploratory surgery and found that my appendix had pinholes all over it, but all the toxins were contained by a layer of fatty tissue that had surrounded my appendix. The Dr had never seen that happen before.
I still remember how the doctor completed the last little check if my appendix is inflamed, he looked at me and said „lets see if it bursts or if we can get it out before that" Good times…
And endometriosis, ovarian torsion, abdominal wall syndrome, bladder infections, small intestine blockages, pancreatitis and sphincter of oddi syndrome - all of which I have or have had. Can confirm, visceral pain receptors are a thing ✅
@@kdkorz10211 Yeah, IBS can definatly be debilitating, and my appendix is gone too! The first time as a teen i got away with screaming cuss words across the house when it finally popped.
@@alysha2063mine ruptured and had to be completely removed.. I would've preferred to not lose anything, but it had already progressed too far. They made me wait too long in the ER and were dismissive when I explained, "My symptoms are not normal for a stomach flu or ache, and my lower stomach was swelling on the right side. I have a high pain tolerance, but I'm pretty sure my appendix burst."
I just got out of the hospital for a ruptured bowel, but I went in thinking appendicitis. In retrospect I wish it was appendicitis the recovery would be so much easier. But hey we are still alive!
Simon or writers should look into that case where a man was only given the paralysing drug for his gallbladder (I think) surgery until half way through when the medical staff realised and finally gave him the anaesthetic. He remembered the surgery and the pain he went through a week or so later while recovering at home and later killed himself due to the trauma.
Yeah there are many of those stories, the anesthetics running out before the paralytic usually. What a nightmare. I got very lucky myself and had a painless surgery and it didn't hurt afterwards either. I think because I'm sensitive to medication, any painkillers they injected just kept on working. I went home with just paracetamol.
My son had appendicitis right before his 3rd birthday. He kept getting sick every 3 months but each time I took him to the doctor they said it was a stomach bug. Eventually it happened once a month till it was about to rupture. The abscess was up by his liver so they pumped him full of antibiotics the night before the surgery. It was a huge relief to realize I wasn’t being that over dramatic mother. I’ve been taking care of children most of my life and I knew something was wrong. He’s good now with 3 little scars.
I got appendicitis when I was 16 and by the time I realized the pain was definitely something to be worried about and got myself to the hospital, and got into the waiting room, I was in so much distress. It wasn't just that it hurt super badly, but it was also. supremely uncomfortable, like just that feeling that something was horribly wrong inside my body. Longest wait of my life. Of course once they checked me out it was *straight* to surgery as ky appendix wasnpretty well already done for and they had to get ahead of the infection before it spread. Unfortunately, my surgeon didn't quite take all the proper precautions and I ended up contracting Staph twice afterword, both of which came even closer to killing me than the appendicitis did. 3 ½ months later and 70lbs lighter I finally went back to school. 0/10 would not recommend.
My uncle almost died from appendicitis. His guardians left him lying on the couch for 3 days because they thought he was faking the severity of his symptoms. According to my mom, by the time he was taken to the hospital, his appendix had burst. Luckily he was able to be saved The mother of a family friend wasn’t so lucky. She had just flown to Africa to visit family when appendicitis struck. Her appendix burst and she died before she could get to a decent hospital. Had she left one day later, she would’ve still been in the US and likely would’ve survived
Internet based ptsd around seeing extreme graphic images is a real thing. What happened to Simon with that plane is unfortunately all too common. Witnessing real death whether Irl or in photo's/videos is deeply traumatic, and can have similar long term psychological impacts regardless of how the death was witnessed.
Simon, you MUST have your appendix removed if staying over the winter in Antarctica. Summer has the option to evacuate, but nothing can get in or out in the Winter.
Yea i done 8 months at scott base as a mechanic was the most amazing and yet boring time of my life and yea still have my appendix even had to get a wisdom tooth surgically removed with no issues while down there
My appendix exploded "like a grenade" according to my doctor, took me like 4 days before O got diagnosed. The doctor told me there was a high chance I wouldn't make it, I was only 21 at the time, luckily they got it and I spent a month in the hospital recovering, since then I do traveling work because I wasn't about to stay in my home town after facing death
I believe you are now required to have your appendix out due to the situation in the 1st story. My senior year of high school I was in tremendous pain in my stomach. My doctor was able to see me immediately and told my parents to bring me to hospital right away fearing my appendix was going to burst. While being operated on they found out I had several cysts on my ovaries and one of those had burst. Guess it's not as toxic as your appendix rupturing but still not good. They did however remove my appendix while in there lol
You can voluntarily remove the appendix, and it used to be recommended to prevent future problems, but it isn't recommended anymore as the appendix is helpful for preventing infections, and might never have problems. Keeping your appendix also avoids the usual risks of surgery. (Edit: But in the case of already having a surgery the prophylactic appendectomy is more likely to be approved)
No, an appendectomy is not required for ANYTHING. You people really think elective surgery is required? Christ. And yes unless your appendix is inflamed and appendectomy is absolutely elective!
Let's not forget the tale of Aron Ralston. In 2003, Ralston was hiking in Utah's Canyonlands National Park when he slipped and got his arm pinned between two large boulders. He had to saw off his own arm to escape. His story got made into the movie "127 Hours".
I had my appendix removed when I was 12. I was at a summer camp and in a ton of pain, and could barely walk. They called my mom, but she thought I was faking it in order to go home. She took me to the hospital anyways, and they rushed me into the O.R. after a surgeon did a quick exam. Apparently it was only an hour or 2 away from bursting.
You were super lucky, cause that is bid diferrence. Once it would burst they would need to clean basically all your insides. My cousin had his removed just last month and it was just 2 weeks at hospital. Reason was they caught it soon and it was nowhere near bursting. On the other hand 2 years back one local from my village had it properly burst and they spend lot of time in hospital basically just cleaning all the mess from inside. Recovery in that case that lot longer.
Fact boy! ⚠️ If you’re craving a food so much like the pickles, you are possibly dehydrated or have too low of a sodium level. If you notice you’re feeling strange, don’t dismiss it, get a simple blood panel run. Even little things like this can cause a big difference in health. It’s why our bodies compensate instinctively and crave minerals and things we need. (Some women even crave red meat/iron after their monthly cycle!) Edit: pesky typo!
Simon, you have pain receptors all over the inside of your body. In fact the receptors on the inside of the body are more primitive; all they feel ls pain because that's all anything bellow the skin needs to feel because if something's touching there, it's not good.
And for a lot of them, not even morphine can help mitigate it, because they're on cranial nerves, so feed directly back to the brain. That's why dental pain and kidney stones hurt so badly, both on cranial nerves.
Great to hear proton therapy getting a shout-out. I've been working in the field for a couple years now and I'm always having to explain it whenever I say what I do for work.
My mum gave me mild paranoia about getting appendicitis because she had it when she was a kid and almost died from it. It helped me save a friend's life a year or so ago, despite that she lives in Australia and I live in the USA. She was having a horrible pain but NOT in the location that appendicitis is most known for. Still, enough of her symptoms matched that I told her to get emergency medical assistance. She did, and the doctors ended up having to remove her appendix.
Wow, "atypical presentations" can be very dangerous when you're lacking one of those 'classic symptoms'. Your friend is super-lucky! That sort of thing is why women have recently been realized to be having heart attacks much more than people ever realized before, because it turns out they have "jaw pain" and "deep abdominal pain" where men have that "left arm going numb/getting weak" thing. Both CAN have "general chest tightness" and "left (and/or right as well) arm pain" as serious heart attack symptoms, but it's much less common in women except for in the truly worst of the heart attacks. Also common in women is 'nausea/vomiting' and 'cold sweats'...and when either/both of those is combined with 'shortness of breath' and 'pain in the jaw/across the shoulders', it should be considered to be an emergency sign that one should IMMEDIATELY get medical attention. Also common 'critical concern' sensations for women are "sensation of tightness in the chest" as if a rope/binder were tightly in place (especially in the upper-chest area) while also having 'bad acid reflux'. The acid reflux/nausea is quite possibly no such thing, and that pair of symptoms should be of great concern in women. Those are big warning signs, but those are among others as well...please look it up if you wonder if you might have had this combination of 'issues' in the past! You CAN often survive small-to-middling heart attacks without treatment, but if they happen once, they both weaken the heart overall AND they may well happen again/even worse in the future since the occluded blood vessel is unlikely to have just 'gotten better' without stents or something. www.heart.org is the AHA web site, which should be pretty authoritative (at least for the US!) on symptoms. They have a specific page about "Heart Attack Symptoms In Women" just because it's such a thing.
I tried a scotch egg once at some small diner my family stopped at during a road trip as a kid and loved it, but unfortunately basically nowhere has scotch eggs where I live in America so thats the only time I've had one.
Due to an old Weebl song, I fell in love with making Scotch eggs here in the U.S. for awhile. But then I found them too much of a hassle to make and the double combo of pork and eggs made me flatulent in two languages, so I stopped making them 😂
I had my appendix burst when I was 10. Started with a mild pain, then got worse over the next couple days. Everyone thought I had a stomach ache. My mom took me to the hospital and the hospital literally said they couldn't see me because they weren't equipped with a pediatric unit. They gave me aspirin and told us to go home. If it is painful the next day, go to the BIG hospital outside of town. I got there, the doctor came by and checked after 4 hours in the ER waiting room, then I got a bed, CT scan, and was in surgery within 1 hour after getting a bed. Long story short, if we had not went to the big hospital after another day, I'd not be here. It is pretty serious, yet the appendix itself is so useless.
It's not actually useless, but like tonsils, the use can often be less than the risk or the issues they cause. My 6 year old daughter just had her tonsils removed because they were so large they were touching, causing her issues with eating and breathing at night.
My boy just had appendicitis! We went to a hospital close by, and they told me he had a stomach bug. I asked them over and over again if I should take him to the children's hospital. They told me not to bother! A few days later, it ruptured!! All because they didn't take us seriously!
I've had that same situation with sharp pain! I suddenly had sharp pain on my mid lower abdomen and decided to take a Tylenol and try to sleep it off. woke up in excruciating pain. turns out my intestines had twisted around on themselves and cut off blood to my lower intestines. went to the hospital and got Caraflighted to a bigger hospital in a big city. when i woke up the doctors told me i was only a couple hours away from death with how serious the situation was before. NEVER IGNORE YOUR BODY PEOPLE, ITS A BAD IDEA.
Unless you're a woman and you're taught by the medical system to ignore your body.... yo, 7-10 years to diagnose endometriosis because the medical system isn't trained enough in recognition of symptoms or listening to women. The last 4 abdominal surgeries I've had for endometriosis I've begged them to take out my appendix so that when I turn up at the emergency room they don't have to waste hours ruling that out before giving me pain meds!!!
@@cheekyb71 They had to perform an exploratory on my eldest daughter to wind up with her diagnosis of endometriosis, they were so certain it wasn't that, because she was only 24 at the time. About 12 years before this, I'd wound up having my appendix out because I tore a muscle, while on a waterslide, just above it, so when they palpated my abdomen, it apparently hurt in the right place.
@@BlackHearthguard well endo can currently ONLY be diagnosed by visualisation during surgery - did you know there are the same numbers of people in the world with endo as with diabetes, yet endo research only receives 1/10th of the amount of funding? Imagine the possibilities for all the women in the world if expensive and painful surgery at breaking point wasn't the only way to learn about it?! I was 22 when diagnosed with stage 4 endo, but my GP had suspected it for 5 years apparently
If they get to your appendix before it bursts it's an outpatient thing. After you are in the ICU for a while if you live. My father had a mid point where his appendix started leaking but hadn't fully burst. He was in the hospital for close to a month.
Speaking of appendectomies, the other crazy case is that of the USS Snapdragon submarine during WWII with an ad hoc surgical team and improvised medical equipment and pharmaceuticals led by a pharmacist mate with the senior officers. It's quite the story.
I had acute pancreatitis and my boyfriend convinced me to wait about 3 days before getting help. He told me it was just a stomach bug and I'd be fine. But I couldn't stop vomiting🤮 When I finally got to the ER my vitals were through the roof! My pulse was 156 BPM. I could have gone into cardiac arrest. My blood pressure was at stroke levels. Needless to say,I was swiftly admitted to the telemetry floor.
Well to be fair you are very unlikely to go into cardiac arrest simply because your pulse rate is 156 BPM...mine gets that high and much higher on a regular basis due to a medical issue.
Nah they eat dead tissue *first*. But if they eat it all and get hungry, they'll happily nom any other meat they find. That's why if you use them to clean a wound you need a doctor to watch and take them off when all the bad stuff is gone. Plus in this kids case it might not have been normal maggots but some weird rainforest larvae thing. There are *several* bugs that lay eggs in human flesh, and given how long she said they were, I'd bet money it was one of those things.
Thanks Simon, for making me Google plain crashes and have the pictures of what I saw for ever in my mind. (Or at least till next wekkend when I pass out from drinking and forget) 😅😂
0:12: 📺 The video discusses history's most improbable survivals from horrific accidents and provides medical advice. 3:42: 🏥 Dr. Leonard Rogers had to perform an appendectomy on himself while stuck at a Soviet research station in Antarctica. 7:31: 🏥 The remote settlement of Las Estrellas in the Chilean Antarctic territory requires all long-term residents to have their appendix removed due to the lack of a nearby hospital. 11:04: 💥 A video shows a passenger filming crazy turbulence on a plane, but turbulence is generally safe. 14:48: 🤢 Julian finds maggots infesting her wound and uses gasoline to remove them before being taken to a village for food. 18:25: 🔬 Anatoly, a 36-year-old man, was accidentally hit by an intense beam of radiation while inside a particle accelerator. 21:40: 🐔 A chicken in Fruita, Colorado lived for 18 months without a head after being beheaded by a farmer. Recap by Tammy AI
It was 1992 when I had my appendix out. I was about 10 years old (can't even see my scar anymore). I was vacationing in Florida with my family. Missed out on Universal Studios. Went to the Hollywood one a few years later. Went back to FL in 1997 and felt Hollywood was the superior version of the park.
Random memory: I remember when my grandpa was butchering a chicken, he chopped it's head off and threw on the ground to bleed out and it ran straight into a tree and died. My childhood was different than yours.
After culinary school I was offered a job in the artic circle and the requirements were no drugs , no wisdom teeth and no appendix and pass a personality test . I passed all requirements but still said no. When I was 13 my appendix burst and nearly died
When I had appendicitis, I had to wait 12 hours for a surgeon as it was after hours at the hospital. One of the most painful things I've experienced. Freaking appendix burst and I lost a shit load of blood because they gave me a diuretic, so much so that I woke up later with 2 IVs in both arms.
64 years old and I still have my appendix and my tonsils. My dad refused any type of surgery to be performed onus when we were minors. Dad was a physician and a young girl died when her tonsils were removed when he was doing his surgical rotation. He decided not to go into surgery professionally and we never had and surgery. I had my first operation in my forties for ovarian cysts. Kind of makes you think
About Simon's pickle craving, you could just be low on stomach acid or something similar. I crave lemons or pickles when I need to balance my stomach acids.
Had a friend in high school who's appendix ruptured and didn't get into the hospital right away. Doctors said it was a miracle that he lived. They had to open him up from the sternum to the groin to clean out the infection and damage. Took months to get him back up to his usual self. Moral of the story, don't wait.
On a pain scale of 1 to 10 based on personal experience. Appendicitis: 7 Leg severed: 5 Gall stones (large ones): 8 Hemorroids (several larges ones surgically removed by scalpel): 10 Stabbed in stomach in 3" knife: 6 Two broken wrists: 3 Road rash: 5 Had many more injuries over the years but they all fall between the 3 and 6 level.
I've had a few injuries that have hurt like hell but the worst was when I had a tooth knocked out which then got infected. My god, dental pain is absolute torture.
I've broken my leg and dislocated my shoulder in a motorbike accident, and got some road rash, for me dislocation was the absolute worst. Just a constant tugging pain. Road rash was just annoying and my leg only hurt when I moved my foot or something, or one night the hospital was super hot and my leg swelled up inside my cast pressing against it, everyone was being sick because of the heat as well, it was pretty rough
If you've had gallstones, watch out for kidney stones. I've had both, and kidney stones have to be endured to understand what they are, the pain is literally indescribable.
Just made a fresh cup of local coffee, with a healthy helping of rum in it. Packed and smoked a bong so full it damn near factory reset me and then see a new Brain Blaze notification? Time for more "coffee" and another factory reset
The same thing just happened to me with pickles! Came across them in the grocery store, got 3 varieties & have been just randomly *~grazing on pickles~*
Appendicitis was awful for me, they didn’t clear all the literal poison out of my abdomen and I got a post-op infection. My mom thought I just had a “tummy-ache”
I almost died from appendicitis.... I had a bad stomach ache on December 30th. Though i ate something wrong. Anyway, mine burst on new years eve.... at 4 in the morning..... while i was lighting fireworks..... and i was drunk.... the ambulance personel were really awesome. I was only in the hospital for 3 days. Shout out to the staff at Gooi Noord hospital.
My home town is where Mike the Headless Chicken came from! My great-grandmother even dated the guy who owned Mike years before it happened. There's even a festival in Mike's honor every summer. Also! The town is called Fruita because it used to have lots of fruit orchards and sugar beets!
Simon, there's SO much more to the story of Anatoli! Kyle Kill does an EXCELLENT video on it that includes all the details. The little snippet we got here leaves me sad that there isn't more thorough info included.
For the sake of people who want to look this up, it's not Kyle Kill but Kyle Hill. The video is aptly titled "What if you put your head in a particle accelerator?"
I got my appendix removed 8 years ago this August. I was in pain and throwing up but I thought it was a stomach flu. I went to bed and went to sleep but woke up because of the pain so we went to the ER. They did the usual test and found I had appendicitis. The surgery was scheduled for several hours later but the surgeon examined me and found that my appendix ruptured so I was rushed to surgery. I was in the hospital for a week of antibiotics.
19:15 If I recall correctly, the light on the sign noting if it was okay to enter or not, was not working properly and that was the main culprit of this instance.
Not sure how accurate the "Turbulence has never had brought down an airliner" claim is? Downdraft/Windshear definitely has, as has turbulence associated with thunderstorms ("thunderheads")
Simon, Sweet Baby Rays is ok...BUT try and get some STUBBS BBQ Sauce...!!! if you like Rays, you'll LOVE STUBBS...no High Fructose Corn Syrup..Molasses and Cane Sugar.
My appendix burst when I was in my early 20s. I knew exactly when it happened because the pain was so bad, I immediately started sweating profusely. I was peeling my clothes off because I was so warm and said to my ex husband "take me to the hospital. any hospital. NOW!" After the surgery, I was in the hospital for 4 days while they treated the infection. My mother and younger brother both also had appendicitis before I did and had to have them removed.
17:12 ...chased my buddies around the shop with a forklift...one of them ran into the office, boss looked up, and he slowly backed out of the office. I was facing the office with the forklift just waiting. He turned around and said "alright, I surrender", so I shouted "hands in the sky!" And when he did, I put the forks up to his face and just ever so slightly booped his nose and said "your dead, son". My boss then opened the door from inside the office and just stared at us, and then dropped his head to face the floor dramatically and walked back inside Somehow, no one ever got hurt. Even when I was the one being chased and damn near ran into a 6x6 F650😂
Bugorski don't "carelessly stick his head inside a particle accellerator". There was a room where in parts of it a particle beam crossed in open air. Bugorski did everything right per safety procedure, but the people at the control room were distracted and didn't actually turn it off when instructed to. As a last stroke of horrible luck, the last hazard indicator on the outside of the room, a red warning light showing the beam inside being active - its lightbulb had blown. Deduced from interviews with other workers having passed by the room before him, the bulb must likely have burnt out only minutes before Bugorski arrived there.
My great-grandfather was on an aircraft carrier near japan during WW2 when his appendix ruptured. They didn’t put him under, instead he just drank some liquor, bit down on a rag, and then he laid in bed for three weeks. My poor great-grandmother thought he was dead during that time & had just had my grandma.
a not-so-fun anecdote i've (alarmingly) heard more than once: period cramps are so bad for some people that they didn't distinguish them from the pain of their appendicitis. let that sink in. for those without periods, bear that in mind before making any snarky comments about how they can't possibly that bad. i luckily haven't had cramps that ever felt that serious, but i know people who have, and i couldn't be any more grateful that i'm now taking birth control so i never have another period again. they are annoying, even debilitating, and generally they'll spoil your whole week. and if you're not regular? then they'll just strike at the most inconvenient time possible. just t he actual worst. and apparently, life-threatening if they happen to masc even more serious health issues!
Yup. Super painful. I thought it was a tummy ache for the first 15 minutes but an hour later i was at the E.R and it busted. Morphine was top tier but still wouldn’t recommend the “it’ll pass”.
The scary thing with the appendix is it can start mild then get worse and worse then suddenly relief. THAT is when you have to worry because it burst. Still have my appebdix had a few scares with colitis mimicing it and even elevated white cells.
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Simon, it's your brain that doesn't have pain receptors. The rest of your body definitely does.
yeah that's why the appendix infection hurts in the first place
Even your bones have pain receptors and we don't currently have any anaesthesia that works for that (at least nothing that's readily available).
I've had a bone marrow sample taken, and despite having been given quite a large amount of anaesthesia, when they reached the bone I could feel everything.
Yeah visceral pain is definitely a thing.
That is untrue. Your heart also does not have pain receptors, which is why the surrounding parts like your arm will experience pain signals. Your innards aren't *well* innervated compared to your skin and musculature, so Simon is kind of correct; the need for anesthesia is diminished, but not absent.
@@iankelley9704 While you are technically correct, there is literally a thing called "broken heart syndrome" that's etymology is unknown but the leading hypothesis is lack of bloodflow stemming from increased emotional stress. Another hypothesis is the Chordae tendineae that work with the valves have a tendency to make you feel like your heart (the actual organ) is in pain. Not the chest surrounding tissue.
Also, I will have you know visceral and bone pain can be immensely more painful than anything related to the skin or musculature. Just noticed you wrote that which is insane.
Simon has never felt internal pain? Impressive!
Its not the burst appendix that kills, it's the peritonitis infection that is deadly without treatment.
That's definitely wrong lol Peritonitis infection wouldn't have taken place,without having the appendix burst first...So it's definitely the bursting of the appendix that leads to death..
Mine burst as it was being removed. I was on antibiotics for fourteen days to prevent the infection. It's down to luck that they were removing it when it burst, bc of how long the school I was attending waited to call my mom. Doctors said that had it burst before then, the odds of the infection killing me would have been far higher. The infection that kills people starts after the appendix bursts
That 'blorp of infected pus and/or bacteria dropping into your abdominal cavity would...be bad. Just...bad. But "Bad" written in silver-flecked calligraphy. In 5-inch-tall script. And maybe on fire. Fire-calligraphy...of sepsis. Or something. Anyway!
@@tanyasawyer5476my mom's appendix went a few years ago. It took way too long for her doctor to figure it out. She was told she was lucky her appendix leaked instead of bursting meaning the infection was localised instead of the bursting spreading the infection threw out her abdomen.
It’s honestly astonishing just how much injury some people can survive.
The horseplay at 17:03 is hilarious. Well done, Sam.
Who tip-toed into the Blazement to snap that picture of Danny?
No need to tip-toe when Sam is just across the way, although they'd need access to a camera so maybe it was Daven?
Did we finally get a confirmed picture of Danny??
I had a very bizarre case of appendicitis.
Not only was I so little at the time that I only remembered it via stories, but my appendix not only popped once but tried to repair itself and popped again. I don’t recall how many times it happened but weird is putting it lightly.
My father had appendicitis shortly before I was born. My mother still remembers the terrible agony he was in that night before she phoned for an ambulance and he went to hospital and immediately into the operating theatre to have it removed. It wasn’t far off bursting and he was lucky to have it removed quickly and safely so he recovered swiftly following the operation. None of us have ever suffered from appendicitis, at least not yet and I’m glad that being a pharmacist myself now means I know exactly what to look for !
7:55 - Chapter 1 - Amazon courier
16:45 - Chapter 2 - Particle man
21:00 - Chapter 3 - Magic mike
PS: 18:50 - At last we saw him out of the blazement
The last time I was this early here, i learned some business stuff
Funny, because the last time i was this late i learned some business stuff, and it felt like i was being trolled by Simon at the same time.
I lost my appendix just shy of my third birthday. My mom took me to several appointments tying to figure out what was wrong. Finally one day, when I was in horrible pain, she threw me in the backseat of the car for a 20 minute drive to the ER. They did an exploratory surgery and found that my appendix had pinholes all over it, but all the toxins were contained by a layer of fatty tissue that had surrounded my appendix. The Dr had never seen that happen before.
Encapsulation.
@@neen42 i highly doubt the encapsulation was the unusual part... the pinholes on the other hand
Sorry for your loss.
Ah man I remember the drive to the ER when my appendix was on the verge of bursting. Those speedbumbs on the road were absolute hell.
*raises my hands in celebration when we see danny’s real face* “BASED BASED BASED!!!!!!” *uncontrollable weeping*
I still remember how the doctor completed the last little check if my appendix is inflamed, he looked at me and said „lets see if it bursts or if we can get it out before that"
Good times…
Simon, if you don't have pain receptors on the inside of your body, then how do you feel your appendix?
And headache, broken bones...
And endometriosis, ovarian torsion, abdominal wall syndrome, bladder infections, small intestine blockages, pancreatitis and sphincter of oddi syndrome - all of which I have or have had. Can confirm, visceral pain receptors are a thing ✅
Hell, I’ve just got IBS and I’m *well* aware of the reality of visceral pain receptors
@@kdkorz10211 Yeah, IBS can definatly be debilitating, and my appendix is gone too! The first time as a teen i got away with screaming cuss words across the house when it finally popped.
I'm literally sitting in the hospital recovering from a burst appendix.. Simon how did you know!?🤯
😬😬 no fun! My boy just spent a week in the hospital for that! Feel better!! I have to ask, though! Are you getting it removed!? They gave us a choice
@@alysha2063mine ruptured and had to be completely removed.. I would've preferred to not lose anything, but it had already progressed too far. They made me wait too long in the ER and were dismissive when I explained, "My symptoms are not normal for a stomach flu or ache, and my lower stomach was swelling on the right side. I have a high pain tolerance, but I'm pretty sure my appendix burst."
I just got out of the hospital for a ruptured bowel, but I went in thinking appendicitis. In retrospect I wish it was appendicitis the recovery would be so much easier. But hey we are still alive!
“That’s got to be even worse than trying to cut your own hair.”
I’m dying
It should be called simon Whistler sundays. A new video off one of his 50 channel's every 10min 😂 nice one
fun fact, pirahnas are normally very docile, they only grow vicious when extremely hungry
or if there's blood in the water, say from a large, maggot infested, laceration.
Simon or writers should look into that case where a man was only given the paralysing drug for his gallbladder (I think) surgery until half way through when the medical staff realised and finally gave him the anaesthetic. He remembered the surgery and the pain he went through a week or so later while recovering at home and later killed himself due to the trauma.
Yeah there are many of those stories, the anesthetics running out before the paralytic usually. What a nightmare. I got very lucky myself and had a painless surgery and it didn't hurt afterwards either. I think because I'm sensitive to medication, any painkillers they injected just kept on working. I went home with just paracetamol.
Sounds like a fun story for a video.
Mans woulda never made it in the past. Shot in the arm? "I got a saw right here we'll chop that arm off everybody hold him down!"
I feel like he did this story on one of his channels, but I definitely could be confusing it with a different channel. Horrible, devastating story 😢
@@lyndsaymsI’ve definitely seen it, not sure if it was a Simon video though
My son had appendicitis right before his 3rd birthday. He kept getting sick every 3 months but each time I took him to the doctor they said it was a stomach bug. Eventually it happened once a month till it was about to rupture. The abscess was up by his liver so they pumped him full of antibiotics the night before the surgery.
It was a huge relief to realize I wasn’t being that over dramatic mother. I’ve been taking care of children most of my life and I knew something was wrong.
He’s good now with 3 little scars.
I got appendicitis when I was 16 and by the time I realized the pain was definitely something to be worried about and got myself to the hospital, and got into the waiting room, I was in so much distress. It wasn't just that it hurt super badly, but it was also. supremely uncomfortable, like just that feeling that something was horribly wrong inside my body. Longest wait of my life. Of course once they checked me out it was *straight* to surgery as ky appendix wasnpretty well already done for and they had to get ahead of the infection before it spread. Unfortunately, my surgeon didn't quite take all the proper precautions and I ended up contracting Staph twice afterword, both of which came even closer to killing me than the appendicitis did. 3 ½ months later and 70lbs lighter I finally went back to school. 0/10 would not recommend.
My uncle almost died from appendicitis. His guardians left him lying on the couch for 3 days because they thought he was faking the severity of his symptoms. According to my mom, by the time he was taken to the hospital, his appendix had burst. Luckily he was able to be saved
The mother of a family friend wasn’t so lucky. She had just flown to Africa to visit family when appendicitis struck. Her appendix burst and she died before she could get to a decent hospital. Had she left one day later, she would’ve still been in the US and likely would’ve survived
Internet based ptsd around seeing extreme graphic images is a real thing. What happened to Simon with that plane is unfortunately all too common. Witnessing real death whether Irl or in photo's/videos is deeply traumatic, and can have similar long term psychological impacts regardless of how the death was witnessed.
The sweet baby ray's shout out ❤ you can't go wrong with it, unless you don't use it 😅
Simon, you MUST have your appendix removed if staying over the winter in Antarctica. Summer has the option to evacuate, but nothing can get in or out in the Winter.
Nah my ex was Scott Base's mechanical engineer for 5 winters, he still had his appendix when we dated 😊
Yea i done 8 months at scott base as a mechanic was the most amazing and yet boring time of my life and yea still have my appendix even had to get a wisdom tooth surgically removed with no issues while down there
The military requires the appendix removal to winter down there. I had to pass up the assignment because I didn’t want it removed.
@@joncrow3228 yeah not for the Kiwis 😉
Lucky! I really wanted that posting, but not enough to sacrifice bits of my body.
You do have pain receptors inside of your body, Simon.
How do you think you feel it when your appendix bursts?
Always loved Simon, but finding out that he enjoys the same BBQ sauce as me is touching ❤
Him being in Europe and all lol
Lmao 😂 I was impressed he knew that brand. I love it as well.
@Ogfunkymonkey it seems to be the most popular brand. I'm not a fan of BBQ myself, but everyone I know who does like it swears by Sweet Baby Ray's.
I was here to say the same thing.
Blain Braze day before my birthday, thank you Simon for the early gift
Sam, thank you for what you do❤
That cut with him saying both my heads and the editing made me have a good chuckle
My appendix exploded "like a grenade" according to my doctor, took me like 4 days before O got diagnosed. The doctor told me there was a high chance I wouldn't make it, I was only 21 at the time, luckily they got it and I spent a month in the hospital recovering, since then I do traveling work because I wasn't about to stay in my home town after facing death
I believe you are now required to have your appendix out due to the situation in the 1st story. My senior year of high school I was in tremendous pain in my stomach. My doctor was able to see me immediately and told my parents to bring me to hospital right away fearing my appendix was going to burst. While being operated on they found out I had several cysts on my ovaries and one of those had burst. Guess it's not as toxic as your appendix rupturing but still not good. They did however remove my appendix while in there lol
Same here - not cysts but inflamed - they took mine out whilst they were there too!
I'm 41 I've been to the hospital a handful of times for a handful of reasons and they've never taken my appendix
Lol I'm 34 and still have mine seems to be working just fine.
You can voluntarily remove the appendix, and it used to be recommended to prevent future problems, but it isn't recommended anymore as the appendix is helpful for preventing infections, and might never have problems.
Keeping your appendix also avoids the usual risks of surgery.
(Edit: But in the case of already having a surgery the prophylactic appendectomy is more likely to be approved)
No, an appendectomy is not required for ANYTHING. You people really think elective surgery is required? Christ. And yes unless your appendix is inflamed and appendectomy is absolutely elective!
Let's not forget the tale of Aron Ralston. In 2003, Ralston was hiking in Utah's Canyonlands National Park when he slipped and got his arm pinned between two large boulders. He had to saw off his own arm to escape. His story got made into the movie "127 Hours".
I had my appendix removed when I was 12. I was at a summer camp and in a ton of pain, and could barely walk. They called my mom, but she thought I was faking it in order to go home. She took me to the hospital anyways, and they rushed me into the O.R. after a surgeon did a quick exam. Apparently it was only an hour or 2 away from bursting.
You were super lucky, cause that is bid diferrence. Once it would burst they would need to clean basically all your insides. My cousin had his removed just last month and it was just 2 weeks at hospital. Reason was they caught it soon and it was nowhere near bursting. On the other hand 2 years back one local from my village had it properly burst and they spend lot of time in hospital basically just cleaning all the mess from inside. Recovery in that case that lot longer.
Fact boy! ⚠️ If you’re craving a food so much like the pickles, you are possibly dehydrated or have too low of a sodium level. If you notice you’re feeling strange, don’t dismiss it, get a simple blood panel run. Even little things like this can cause a big difference in health. It’s why our bodies compensate instinctively and crave minerals and things we need. (Some women even crave red meat/iron after their monthly cycle!)
Edit: pesky typo!
Simon, you have pain receptors all over the inside of your body. In fact the receptors on the inside of the body are more primitive; all they feel ls pain because that's all anything bellow the skin needs to feel because if something's touching there, it's not good.
And for a lot of them, not even morphine can help mitigate it, because they're on cranial nerves, so feed directly back to the brain. That's why dental pain and kidney stones hurt so badly, both on cranial nerves.
Good timing, there's a medical emergency at the Australian Antarctic station now!
Great to hear proton therapy getting a shout-out. I've been working in the field for a couple years now and I'm always having to explain it whenever I say what I do for work.
I had 3 days of abdominal pain and finally went to the ER. Was on the table for an emergency appendectomy in no time!😮
My mum gave me mild paranoia about getting appendicitis because she had it when she was a kid and almost died from it.
It helped me save a friend's life a year or so ago, despite that she lives in Australia and I live in the USA. She was having a horrible pain but NOT in the location that appendicitis is most known for. Still, enough of her symptoms matched that I told her to get emergency medical assistance. She did, and the doctors ended up having to remove her appendix.
Wow, "atypical presentations" can be very dangerous when you're lacking one of those 'classic symptoms'. Your friend is super-lucky! That sort of thing is why women have recently been realized to be having heart attacks much more than people ever realized before, because it turns out they have "jaw pain" and "deep abdominal pain" where men have that "left arm going numb/getting weak" thing. Both CAN have "general chest tightness" and "left (and/or right as well) arm pain" as serious heart attack symptoms, but it's much less common in women except for in the truly worst of the heart attacks. Also common in women is 'nausea/vomiting' and 'cold sweats'...and when either/both of those is combined with 'shortness of breath' and 'pain in the jaw/across the shoulders', it should be considered to be an emergency sign that one should IMMEDIATELY get medical attention. Also common 'critical concern' sensations for women are "sensation of tightness in the chest" as if a rope/binder were tightly in place (especially in the upper-chest area) while also having 'bad acid reflux'. The acid reflux/nausea is quite possibly no such thing, and that pair of symptoms should be of great concern in women.
Those are big warning signs, but those are among others as well...please look it up if you wonder if you might have had this combination of 'issues' in the past! You CAN often survive small-to-middling heart attacks without treatment, but if they happen once, they both weaken the heart overall AND they may well happen again/even worse in the future since the occluded blood vessel is unlikely to have just 'gotten better' without stents or something. www.heart.org is the AHA web site, which should be pretty authoritative (at least for the US!) on symptoms. They have a specific page about "Heart Attack Symptoms In Women" just because it's such a thing.
I am so happy that Sweet Baby Ray's is all over the world. It's just a solid bbq sauce for almost anything that requires it.
Visceral pain receptors are most definitely on the inside, if they’re not, you need to worry!
I tried a scotch egg once at some small diner my family stopped at during a road trip as a kid and loved it, but unfortunately basically nowhere has scotch eggs where I live in America so thats the only time I've had one.
Due to an old Weebl song, I fell in love with making Scotch eggs here in the U.S. for awhile. But then I found them too much of a hassle to make and the double combo of pork and eggs made me flatulent in two languages, so I stopped making them 😂
Scotch eggs are pretty easy to make and I highly recommend everyone try them
I had my appendix burst when I was 10. Started with a mild pain, then got worse over the next couple days. Everyone thought I had a stomach ache. My mom took me to the hospital and the hospital literally said they couldn't see me because they weren't equipped with a pediatric unit. They gave me aspirin and told us to go home. If it is painful the next day, go to the BIG hospital outside of town.
I got there, the doctor came by and checked after 4 hours in the ER waiting room, then I got a bed, CT scan, and was in surgery within 1 hour after getting a bed.
Long story short, if we had not went to the big hospital after another day, I'd not be here. It is pretty serious, yet the appendix itself is so useless.
"long story short" after already writing a whole paragraph...
its not that long though
@@TeeJayStorm
It's not actually useless, but like tonsils, the use can often be less than the risk or the issues they cause. My 6 year old daughter just had her tonsils removed because they were so large they were touching, causing her issues with eating and breathing at night.
My boy just had appendicitis! We went to a hospital close by, and they told me he had a stomach bug. I asked them over and over again if I should take him to the children's hospital. They told me not to bother! A few days later, it ruptured!! All because they didn't take us seriously!
The merch this channel has is actually GOOD
I've had that same situation with sharp pain! I suddenly had sharp pain on my mid lower abdomen and decided to take a Tylenol and try to sleep it off. woke up in excruciating pain. turns out my intestines had twisted around on themselves and cut off blood to my lower intestines. went to the hospital and got Caraflighted to a bigger hospital in a big city. when i woke up the doctors told me i was only a couple hours away from death with how serious the situation was before. NEVER IGNORE YOUR BODY PEOPLE, ITS A BAD IDEA.
Unless you're a woman and you're taught by the medical system to ignore your body.... yo, 7-10 years to diagnose endometriosis because the medical system isn't trained enough in recognition of symptoms or listening to women.
The last 4 abdominal surgeries I've had for endometriosis I've begged them to take out my appendix so that when I turn up at the emergency room they don't have to waste hours ruling that out before giving me pain meds!!!
@@cheekyb71 They had to perform an exploratory on my eldest daughter to wind up with her diagnosis of endometriosis, they were so certain it wasn't that, because she was only 24 at the time.
About 12 years before this, I'd wound up having my appendix out because I tore a muscle, while on a waterslide, just above it, so when they palpated my abdomen, it apparently hurt in the right place.
@@BlackHearthguard well endo can currently ONLY be diagnosed by visualisation during surgery - did you know there are the same numbers of people in the world with endo as with diabetes, yet endo research only receives 1/10th of the amount of funding? Imagine the possibilities for all the women in the world if expensive and painful surgery at breaking point wasn't the only way to learn about it?!
I was 22 when diagnosed with stage 4 endo, but my GP had suspected it for 5 years apparently
Keep calm and blaze on. Release the scripts Simon.
If they get to your appendix before it bursts it's an outpatient thing. After you are in the ICU for a while if you live. My father had a mid point where his appendix started leaking but hadn't fully burst. He was in the hospital for close to a month.
Speaking of appendectomies, the other crazy case is that of the USS Snapdragon submarine during WWII with an ad hoc surgical team and improvised medical equipment and pharmaceuticals led by a pharmacist mate with the senior officers. It's quite the story.
Yes, more Simon!
I had acute pancreatitis and my boyfriend convinced me to wait about 3 days before getting help. He told me it was just a stomach bug and I'd be fine. But I couldn't stop vomiting🤮 When I finally got to the ER my vitals were through the roof! My pulse was 156 BPM. I could have gone into cardiac arrest. My blood pressure was at stroke levels. Needless to say,I was swiftly admitted to the telemetry floor.
Well to be fair you are very unlikely to go into cardiac arrest simply because your pulse rate is 156 BPM...mine gets that high and much higher on a regular basis due to a medical issue.
@@PrimateProductions No but my pancreas was out of whack. Then please explain to me why I was placed on the telemetry floor.
@@PrimateProductions I double checked and yes indeed acute pancreatitis can absolutely cause severe heart issues such as cardiac arrest
I was always told maggots only eat dead tissue, which is why they are sometimes still used to clean wounds
Nah they eat dead tissue *first*. But if they eat it all and get hungry, they'll happily nom any other meat they find. That's why if you use them to clean a wound you need a doctor to watch and take them off when all the bad stuff is gone.
Plus in this kids case it might not have been normal maggots but some weird rainforest larvae thing. There are *several* bugs that lay eggs in human flesh, and given how long she said they were, I'd bet money it was one of those things.
Who wants to tell simon that we do have internal pain receptors (part of why having appendixitis hurts)?
Thanks Simon, for making me Google plain crashes and have the pictures of what I saw for ever in my mind. (Or at least till next wekkend when I pass out from drinking and forget) 😅😂
0:12: 📺 The video discusses history's most improbable survivals from horrific accidents and provides medical advice.
3:42: 🏥 Dr. Leonard Rogers had to perform an appendectomy on himself while stuck at a Soviet research station in Antarctica.
7:31: 🏥 The remote settlement of Las Estrellas in the Chilean Antarctic territory requires all long-term residents to have their appendix removed due to the lack of a nearby hospital.
11:04: 💥 A video shows a passenger filming crazy turbulence on a plane, but turbulence is generally safe.
14:48: 🤢 Julian finds maggots infesting her wound and uses gasoline to remove them before being taken to a village for food.
18:25: 🔬 Anatoly, a 36-year-old man, was accidentally hit by an intense beam of radiation while inside a particle accelerator.
21:40: 🐔 A chicken in Fruita, Colorado lived for 18 months without a head after being beheaded by a farmer.
Recap by Tammy AI
If you ever needed a reminder that Simon didn't go to med school, here it is lol 😂😂😂
It was 1992 when I had my appendix out. I was about 10 years old (can't even see my scar anymore). I was vacationing in Florida with my family. Missed out on Universal Studios. Went to the Hollywood one a few years later. Went back to FL in 1997 and felt Hollywood was the superior version of the park.
Random memory:
I remember when my grandpa was butchering a chicken, he chopped it's head off and threw on the ground to bleed out and it ran straight into a tree and died.
My childhood was different than yours.
After culinary school I was offered a job in the artic circle and the requirements were no drugs , no wisdom teeth and no appendix and pass a personality test . I passed all requirements but still said no. When I was 13 my appendix burst and nearly died
When I had appendicitis, I had to wait 12 hours for a surgeon as it was after hours at the hospital. One of the most painful things I've experienced. Freaking appendix burst and I lost a shit load of blood because they gave me a diuretic, so much so that I woke up later with 2 IVs in both arms.
The maggots in the wound were probably all that kept her from getting a fatal infection.
One of my favorite episodes
64 years old and I still have my appendix and my tonsils. My dad refused any type of surgery to be performed onus when we were minors. Dad was a physician and a young girl died when her tonsils were removed when he was doing his surgical rotation. He decided not to go into surgery professionally and we never had and surgery. I had my first operation in my forties for ovarian cysts. Kind of makes you think
About Simon's pickle craving, you could just be low on stomach acid or something similar.
I crave lemons or pickles when I need to balance my stomach acids.
Had a friend in high school who's appendix ruptured and didn't get into the hospital right away. Doctors said it was a miracle that he lived. They had to open him up from the sternum to the groin to clean out the infection and damage. Took months to get him back up to his usual self. Moral of the story, don't wait.
On a pain scale of 1 to 10 based on personal experience.
Appendicitis: 7
Leg severed: 5
Gall stones (large ones): 8
Hemorroids (several larges ones surgically removed by scalpel): 10
Stabbed in stomach in 3" knife: 6
Two broken wrists: 3
Road rash: 5
Had many more injuries over the years but they all fall between the 3 and 6 level.
I've had a few injuries that have hurt like hell but the worst was when I had a tooth knocked out which then got infected. My god, dental pain is absolute torture.
I've broken my leg and dislocated my shoulder in a motorbike accident, and got some road rash, for me dislocation was the absolute worst. Just a constant tugging pain. Road rash was just annoying and my leg only hurt when I moved my foot or something, or one night the hospital was super hot and my leg swelled up inside my cast pressing against it, everyone was being sick because of the heat as well, it was pretty rough
ive had my knee twisted once. most painfull thing ive ever felt.
If you've had gallstones, watch out for kidney stones. I've had both, and kidney stones have to be endured to understand what they are, the pain is literally indescribable.
@@BlackHearthguard honestly mate. Nothing is as painful as open wounds inside your asshole from having roids cut away.
Just made a fresh cup of local coffee, with a healthy helping of rum in it. Packed and smoked a bong so full it damn near factory reset me and then see a new Brain Blaze notification? Time for more "coffee" and another factory reset
The same thing just happened to me with pickles! Came across them in the grocery store, got 3 varieties & have been just randomly *~grazing on pickles~*
Appendicitis was awful for me, they didn’t clear all the literal poison out of my abdomen and I got a post-op infection. My mom thought I just had a “tummy-ache”
For the record my appendix burst on the way to my appendectomy 💀
Goddamn big dawg, that's fuckin rough. One tough son-of-a-bitch ya must be. Holy hell man.
I almost died from appendicitis.... I had a bad stomach ache on December 30th. Though i ate something wrong. Anyway, mine burst on new years eve.... at 4 in the morning..... while i was lighting fireworks..... and i was drunk.... the ambulance personel were really awesome. I was only in the hospital for 3 days.
Shout out to the staff at Gooi Noord hospital.
@@Coentjemonswell if you were only hospitalized for 3 days then you did not almost die!😊
@@ontrend7624good thing you were on your way! It does complicate things sometimes though once it ruptures!😊
New addition to the Whistler Cinematic Universe just dropped: Simon cooking channel.
Inaugural episode: Botching the Scotching of an Egg
I'm trying to work out why she tried to remove the maggots, Maggots eat dead flesh and are still used to clean wounds.
Yay new business blaze
The edits are killing me 😂
My home town is where Mike the Headless Chicken came from! My great-grandmother even dated the guy who owned Mike years before it happened. There's even a festival in Mike's honor every summer.
Also! The town is called Fruita because it used to have lots of fruit orchards and sugar beets!
Simon, there's SO much more to the story of Anatoli! Kyle Kill does an EXCELLENT video on it that includes all the details. The little snippet we got here leaves me sad that there isn't more thorough info included.
For the sake of people who want to look this up, it's not Kyle Kill but Kyle Hill. The video is aptly titled "What if you put your head in a particle accelerator?"
Calmy "our lives are over" in my head, mom immediately got mad that dad was right about the airline.
When I had appendicitis it hit me like a sledgehammer in the gut out of nowhere.
I got my appendix removed 8 years ago this August. I was in pain and throwing up but I thought it was a stomach flu. I went to bed and went to sleep but woke up because of the pain so we went to the ER. They did the usual test and found I had appendicitis. The surgery was scheduled for several hours later but the surgeon examined me and found that my appendix ruptured so I was rushed to surgery. I was in the hospital for a week of antibiotics.
Solid “They Might Be Giants” reference.
19:15 If I recall correctly, the light on the sign noting if it was okay to enter or not, was not working properly and that was the main culprit of this instance.
Not sure how accurate the "Turbulence has never had brought down an airliner" claim is?
Downdraft/Windshear definitely has, as has turbulence associated with thunderstorms ("thunderheads")
Holy crap the turbulence 😂 what are you doing Simon ❤ definitely looks like you're... Doing something else.
Simon, Sweet Baby Rays is ok...BUT try and get some STUBBS BBQ Sauce...!!! if you like Rays, you'll LOVE STUBBS...no High Fructose Corn Syrup..Molasses and Cane Sugar.
Simon… veterinarian here… you do have pain receptors in your body… how else would you feel the pain in the appendix if you don’t have pain receptors?
This video exposed how little medical knowledge Fact Boy actually has 😂
15:04 those are superworms! Our bearded dragon loves them. Lol
That idea of the two mirrors is smart as hell, Simon is no smooth brain.
My appendix burst when I was in my early 20s. I knew exactly when it happened because the pain was so bad, I immediately started sweating profusely. I was peeling my clothes off because I was so warm and said to my ex husband "take me to the hospital. any hospital. NOW!" After the surgery, I was in the hospital for 4 days while they treated the infection. My mother and younger brother both also had appendicitis before I did and had to have them removed.
17:12 ...chased my buddies around the shop with a forklift...one of them ran into the office, boss looked up, and he slowly backed out of the office. I was facing the office with the forklift just waiting. He turned around and said "alright, I surrender", so I shouted "hands in the sky!" And when he did, I put the forks up to his face and just ever so slightly booped his nose and said "your dead, son". My boss then opened the door from inside the office and just stared at us, and then dropped his head to face the floor dramatically and walked back inside
Somehow, no one ever got hurt. Even when I was the one being chased and damn near ran into a 6x6 F650😂
I have a legit fear of appendicitis. This story was scarier than anything on the casual criminalist
BOAC flight 911 was brought down by turbulence around Mount Fuji.
Bugorski don't "carelessly stick his head inside a particle accellerator". There was a room where in parts of it a particle beam crossed in open air. Bugorski did everything right per safety procedure, but the people at the control room were distracted and didn't actually turn it off when instructed to. As a last stroke of horrible luck, the last hazard indicator on the outside of the room, a red warning light showing the beam inside being active - its lightbulb had blown. Deduced from interviews with other workers having passed by the room before him, the bulb must likely have burnt out only minutes before Bugorski arrived there.
My great-grandfather was on an aircraft carrier near japan during WW2 when his appendix ruptured. They didn’t put him under, instead he just drank some liquor, bit down on a rag, and then he laid in bed for three weeks. My poor great-grandmother thought he was dead during that time & had just had my grandma.
a not-so-fun anecdote i've (alarmingly) heard more than once: period cramps are so bad for some people that they didn't distinguish them from the pain of their appendicitis. let that sink in. for those without periods, bear that in mind before making any snarky comments about how they can't possibly that bad. i luckily haven't had cramps that ever felt that serious, but i know people who have, and i couldn't be any more grateful that i'm now taking birth control so i never have another period again. they are annoying, even debilitating, and generally they'll spoil your whole week. and if you're not regular? then they'll just strike at the most inconvenient time possible. just t he actual worst. and apparently, life-threatening if they happen to masc even more serious health issues!
My dads appendix exploded when he was a teenager. Impressive scar.
Magic Mike. OG Whistleverse subject.
🐔🐔🐔🐔
you said the rainforest is big, but I thought this might put it in perspective… It's twice as big as the entire country of India
Yup. Super painful. I thought it was a tummy ache for the first 15 minutes but an hour later i was at the E.R and it busted. Morphine was top tier but still wouldn’t recommend the “it’ll pass”.
I don't know if I should be mad Samuel didn't add a snippet of the They Might Be Giants song Particle Man or impressed by his restraint.
The scary thing with the appendix is it can start mild then get worse and worse then suddenly relief. THAT is when you have to worry because it burst.
Still have my appebdix had a few scares with colitis mimicing it and even elevated white cells.