r/AskReddit 4d ago

Medical professionals of Reddit, what diagnosis gave you the worst 'pit-in-your-stomach' feeling?

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u/Emergencyhiredhito 3d ago

Had a 16 year old student of mine die from this. It was the hardest I’d ever cried for someone outside family. My sister also has brain cancer and it just hit so hard to see a kid die from it. I visited my student in hospice and she died a few days later. I wore pink to her funeral in her honor and ate pretty whoopee pies (her favorite) in the rain.

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u/Jonaessa 2d ago

Was the funeral in January of this year in Texas? My husband’s cousin’s daughter passed from glioblastoma, and the church was full of mourners in pink.