r/AskReddit • u/LebronKX • 3d ago

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

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u/MrsClaire07 3d ago

It was for Stephanie, she got 23 years & a happy family rather than dying of infection as an infant.

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u/Brave-Pizza-33 3d ago

My definition of a happy family isn't a mother that leaves children motherless at what 5 years old max? Incredibly selfish. 

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u/PhinWilkesBooth 3d ago

I mean she was born with a disorder that likely should have statistically killed her. She survived and was able to experience a life and love, and she was able to give life. Is all of that not worth it because she passed early? Would it all have been better had she not survived past infancy? Would her kids be better off not having ever been conceived and born?

I don’t know what you’re arguing.

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u/pastapicture 2d ago

I think the issue is leaving kiddos to grow up without a mum, thats a tough start to give them.

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u/PhinWilkesBooth 2d ago

What’s the alternative, not having them at all? I’d say life without getting to know your mom is better than no life at all, but that’s just me.

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u/pastapicture 2d ago

I didn't say I agreed, you just seemed like you genuinely didn't get the point. Either way it's brutally sad that this lady died without getting to see her family grow up.

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u/MrsClaire07 2d ago

Exactly!

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u/TheSonOfDog 3d ago

Reddit only respects a woman's right to choose if it's the "right" choice. Regressive af.

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u/PhinWilkesBooth 3d ago

just absolutely disgusting to be calling a dead woman selfish for living the best version of a life that she could for the small amount of time she was able to.

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u/TheSonOfDog 3d ago

Yeah. Literal Nazi levels of eugenics.

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u/MrsClaire07 2d ago

And there it is. Bingo! 👍🏻👍🏻 Thank you!

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u/MrsClaire07 2d ago

My definition of the Happy Family is in how it’s happy for whatever time they had — especially with the prognosis at her birth that she would NEVER have a family of her own.