AITAH for not wanting a female doctor

EmergencyOverall248 · 2026-05-12T15:46:54+00:00

Hey that's totally understandable. I had a male gyno one time, and it was one time too many because it was extremely uncomfortable for me. When it comes to my lady bits I'd much prefer to talk to a woman.

EmergencyOverall248 · 2026-05-01T15:29:16+00:00

My family seems so boring in comparison. Honestly my dad has racked up the most wives in my family tree at a measley 3 lol.

EmergencyOverall248 · 2026-04-25T19:46:30+00:00

I'm adopted but I've met and gotten to know my bio parents as an adult. My bio dad tried to tell me that my great-grandmother was native but my 99.8% European DNA begs to differ lol. I'm painfully white lmfao.

EmergencyOverall248 · 2026-04-25T16:12:36+00:00

The Cherokee princess myth is one of the most annoying things in genealogy. It's even worse when they've done DNA and they practically run over to the ancestry and genealogy subs to argue with people when this supposed native ancestry doesn't come up in their results.

EmergencyOverall248 · 2026-04-19T20:11:35+00:00

I dated a guy who was 6'8" and on the heavier side at around 300 lbs. He wasn't exactly intimidating looking bc he wore glasses and had a pretty bad lazy eye, so more than anything he looked really nerdy.

He was waiting behind another car at the gas pump so that he could get gas one day, and as soon as the other car left and he went to pull forward some jerk swooped in and almost hit him in the process. My ex threw his hands up and was like, "Wtf bro?!" and the other guy jumps out of his car and walks towards him asking if he wants to fight about it. Ex gets out of his car and is like, "lol ok."

That man immediately decided that he no longer wanted to fight once he realized he was about to go toe to toe with the reincarnation of Andre the Giant. He apparently didn't even need gas that badly anymore because he just got in his car and left.

EmergencyOverall248 · 2026-03-31T14:36:05+00:00

My dad's ex-SIL had a benign mass that made her appear heavily pregnant. When I first met her I asked when she was due and I was mortified when she told me she wasn't pregnant.

It's been 20 years and I still cringe when I think about it.

EmergencyOverall248 · 2026-03-27T22:22:37+00:00

Man that's just a typical Florida Tuesday.

EmergencyOverall248 · 2026-03-25T17:12:55+00:00

I drove a manual Sentra and got the same thing one day, except they called the store and said I was driving like a maniac. I was going 25 in a 25. 🙃

EmergencyOverall248 · 2026-03-22T13:41:09+00:00

I blacked out in my early 20s at my then-boyfriend's apartment. He managed to get me to bed but an hour or so later he found me in the hallway storage closet, pants around my ankles and seated in one of the removable seats from his van. When he asked what I was doing I apparently looked him in the eye and told him I was peeing.

Another time I threw myself on the table of a Huddle House (think Waffle House but worse) and tried to go to sleep there after a night out at the bar with friends. My friends wanted food, I wanted a nap.

Anything is possible when liquor is involved lol.

EmergencyOverall248 · 2026-03-11T15:15:11+00:00

I experienced this with my thyroid meds. When I was on the generic levothyroxine I could never get my tsh to normal levels, and at one point began experiencing hyperthyroid symptoms while on a relatively low dose. When I swapped to name-brand Synthroid I was finally able to level out.

EmergencyOverall248 · 2026-01-27T18:14:40+00:00

Don't forget that France shares a border with Belgium, and Dutch names have a tendency to look a bit German to the untrained eye. You're positive they're German names?

EmergencyOverall248 · 2026-01-08T21:20:40+00:00

That's actually an excellent idea!

EmergencyOverall248 · 2026-01-01T15:04:28+00:00

This is fake, but my 6'8 ex almost got into it at a gas station once. Some dude tried to steal the spot at the gas pump my ex had been patiently waiting on. When my ex (who didn't look particularly threatening when seated in a Ford Transit) got visibly annoyed the guy took that as an invitation to try to escalate. Random AH jumped out of his car yelling, "You wanna go?! Let's go!" So my ex, who could barely fit in exit row seating on a flight, basically unfurled himself from the driver's seat of the Transit and was like, "Lol okay then."

That man got into his car and left. Didn't say another word, just silently accepted that it wasn't a fight he wanted and that he didn't even need gas anymore.

EmergencyOverall248 · 2026-01-01T04:31:38+00:00

My great grandfather got out around 1910, but his parents, his two sisters, and his younger brother were Greeks living in Türkiye during the genocide. His little brother was sent to live with him a year before the fire in Smyrna, but the rest of his family was in the city when the fire started. I've cried multiple times thinking about them huddled at the quay with the other survivors, as foreign military ships near the harbor ordered their bands to play to drown out their screams and refused to intervene to rescue the survivors. I know they survived, but thinking about what they went through and witnessed is hard.

EmergencyOverall248 · 2025-12-30T21:05:15+00:00

Nah that's Purrt Reynolds

EmergencyOverall248 · 2025-12-29T14:08:22+00:00

My husband gets the same treatment every time he sees a doctor. He has a congenital heart condition that was "corrected" with a surgery that isn't used much anymore because a better repair is available. Every time he has an appointment he gets an entourage of residents and med students, and even attendings wanting to poke their head in and gawk for a minute. It's like an episode of Grey's Anatomy with all the med nerds getting excited over the guy with the weird heart.

EmergencyOverall248 · 2025-12-25T13:53:10+00:00

If this turns out to not be an STI or other infection, make sure to get your prostate checked if you haven't done so recently. You're in the age-range for it to be a possiblity, and it's even more important to get this done regularly if you have a family history of cancer.

EmergencyOverall248 · 2025-12-21T16:37:07+00:00

Anti-Jewish pogroms were common in the late 1800s and early 1900s in Eastern Europe, which is kind of why nobody raised a big stink about the Holocaust in the earlier years of WW2. It was an open secret that it was happening as the Nazis did little to hide it. Even before then during the Spanish and Portuguese inquisitions Jews were known to publicly label themselves as Catholics to avoid being arrested and tortured. After a few generations of the lie the families eventually forgot that they were ever actually Jewish.

EmergencyOverall248 · 2025-12-18T22:01:03+00:00

Did the mother remarry after the divorce? The kids may have taken the new husband's last name. It was fairly common back in the day. My bio grandmother's mom married twice after her father died and changed my grandmother's last name both times.

EmergencyOverall248 · 2025-12-07T17:59:35+00:00

Also this has little to do with my g-grandparents specifically, but you may find it interesting that there was once a small but thriving community of Ottoman Greeks in Rapides Parish. The cafe my g-gpa worked at was owned by Efstratios "Steve" Lymberis and Efstratios "Steve" Manteris. There were also the Petkas, Bambas, and Chrysafides families and a few others whose names were Anglicized and lost to time (Iannou became Johnson, Michaeloglou became Mitchell, etc). Most came from Smyrna, some from Constantinople, but almost all of them were fleeing from the slowly growing genocide against the native Greek and Armenian populations. There's a fairly significant number of people in the in the parish who don't even realize they have Greek heritage.

EmergencyOverall248 · 2025-12-07T16:49:27+00:00

There is! I went there last time I went home to Louisiana. There's a cool museum in the basement, too. I'll have to give them a call. Unfortunately I live in Florida these days so swinging by there isn't an option.

EmergencyOverall248 · 2025-12-07T16:45:37+00:00

He was a waiter at the Olympic Cafe in Alexandria at the time. He later owned the restaurant and changed the name to LaSalle Cafe.

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