i might die in 7 hours, and I’m not afraid.

I (14M) have a bone disease known as Multiple Hereditary Exostoses (MHE). It causes benign bone tumors to grow everywhere on my body. Although they aren’t cancerous, they are very painful when they are near a nerve.

A lot of these tumors have grown in my knees, fingers and ribs. You can probably guess there are a lot of nerves and muscles there that can be pinched and pierced. It hurts quite a lot. I am constantly at level 5 pain (scale of 1-10). I can only walk for up to 2 minutes, I can’t write (with a pen, if I couldnt type this post wouldnt exist lol) and I’m basically in agony.

We have decided I will go for surgery to saw off some of the most painful tumors in my knee. Hopefully this will restore my ability to walk. The doctors have also decided we should remove 2 of my ribs, which have cracked due to the tumors. They’ll be replaced with metal I think.

There is a 20% chance of death with all these very complicated procedures, and of course, a chance this surgery doesn’t change anything, or even makes it worse. Rolling less than 6 sided dice to determine if I live or die. But to be honest, I don’t really care what happens in this surgery.

If it works, great, I can walk again. If it fails and my condition stays the same/deteriorates, I’ve adapted to this disease enough. I can probably handle a few turns for the worst. And if I die, well, I suppose then there is no more pain.

My friends say it is wrong for me to feel okay about dying. I don’t exactly care if I die at this point. It’s in fate’s hands at this point.

In 7 hours, I’ll be on the operating table that’ll determine my destiny, see you on the other side

Netizens’ comments

• A very good friend of mine has this. She went through surgery to remove some of the very painful ones around her spine I think.

She made a 100% recovery, and she was 27 years old and a smoker/drinker.

• I probably have the same disease. When i was 15yo i had two biggest tumors removed, one from my arm and one from my leg. They were really big but in couple of days after the surgery i was slowly walking again. Today, more than 20 years later everything is still fine even though i have some more tumors left. After i stopped growing, they stopped growing. I guess what i am trying to tell you is to be brave and not give up. It will be better, you are stronger than the disease.

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I’m posting this here to see if anyone can help me.

This is starting to worry me because my little sister is seeing something and she’s terrified, she’s been waking up to a woman beside her at night, wearing a black dress with black hair.

My mom and older sister have seen her standing beside them at night too.

My mom said she was around my little sister’s age when she started seeing it, and some nights wouldn’t sleep because the woman would be there and sometimes she would try to grab her.

Does anyone have an idea on what this could be or what i should do.

Netizens’ comments

• Our house was super haunted when I was a kid, my mom came in my room and told the ghost it was scaring me and to please stop visiting and it stopped. If it is a ghost it may not be aware it is being scary. If that doesn’t work then start with burning sage and go from there

• Bro that’s obviously a ghost. Go on YouTube and play some religous music before going to bed.

My wife (35f) revealed to me (34m) during a playful debate that she told her best friend (34f) my manhood size. It’s been bothering me for a few different reasons.

1: When I was in my early 20s and casually dating, I worked at a restaurant with one of the girls I was seeing.

After we stopped seeing each other, she went on to tell a bunch of girls working there that I had a big manhood.

A few days later, I have a bunch of girls who were previously uninterested in me, now hitting on me.

This bothers me because it’s objectifying. I couldn’t articulate in my 20s why it bothered me, but now that I’m 30+ and understand the situation better, I realized why it irked me.

I have thoughts like, “if these women are only interested in my little brother, why wouldn’t they just leave me for the next bigger one?” So I never took any of them seriously.

2: My wife told her best friend, who we see often. And she’s married. And she’s flirtatious with me. I brought it up with my wife that she flirts with me, and my wife brushes it off, “that’s just how she is, that’s just her personality”.

Another time I tried to be more firm and said that, no, I really do think she wants to bang me and that my wife has blinders on because they’re best friends since middle school.

They are ‘ride or dies’. I also would hate for my wife to lose her only best friend over some dumb thing she said that I’m possibly blowing out of proportion.

I thought my wife was different, but when she told me she revealed my size to her friend, it just reminded me of the restaurant girls all over again.

I hate that a lot of weight on my value as a man is based on how big an organ is.

My husband and I feel like we failed as parents

We took our daughter ( 15F) to her doctor’s appointment and, while we expected the number on the scale to be a bit on the heavier side, we were not expecting her to be nearly 220 pounds.

This didn’t seem to shock our daughter at all.

How she got to this weight, we already know. I work late hours often, as does my husband and for years upon years, it was a case where dinner for her was something microwaveable, frozen, order pizza, or, wait until one of us was home for a quick minute and we’d rush through a fast food drive thru.

As we reflected on it, we realized we’d been sleepwalking essentially, through plenty of things that should’ve alarmed us, like how often we’ve had to let out her pants for school, or how even getting off of the couch has become laborious for her.

We are a bit shocked that after seeing that number, she isn’t more alarmed and seems fine continuing a sedentary lifestyle.

My husband and I are lost as to what to do next with her.

Netizens’ comments

Start exercising as a family. Walking outdoors, at the park. Dancing is a fun activity as well. Try new recipes together as a family that are healthy but flavorful. Make sure to have a weekend treat like pizza, ice cream, etc.

Most importantly, don’t make her feel bad. Motivate her, encourage her. But tread lightly. My mom destroyed my self esteem when I was younger by harping on me. And I wasn’t even heavy.

A 29-year-old man has been arrested on suspicion of voluntarily causing grievous bodily harm with a dangerous weapon.

On March 5, 2022, at around 2.20 p.m., the Police were notified of a case in which a man reportedly assaulted another man with a parang near Ang Mo Kio Avenue 10. Preliminary investigations found that a 26-year-old man had a quarrel with the 29-year-old man’s father earlier that day, and the 29-year-old man reportedly retaliated with a parang for the previous fight and fled the scene. The 26-year-old guy was sent to the hospital awake after suffering a cut wound and having his right index finger chop off.

Through extensive ground enquiries and with the aid of images from Police cameras and CCTVs, officers from Ang Mo Kio Police Division established the identity of the 29-year-old man and arrested him on 6 March 2022, within 13 hours of the reported offence.

The man will be charged in court on 7 March 2022 for voluntarily causing grievous hurt by a dangerous weapon under Section 326 Penal Code 1871. The offence carries an imprisonment term of life imprisonment; or imprisonment for a term which may extend to 15 years, and shall also be liable to a fine or to caning.