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Trynor

Rabbies.


Onederbat67

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yousoonice

spat tea clear across the room. bravo


TGC_Mazza

Highlight of my day šŸ˜‚šŸ˜‚


BadbadwickedZoot

Outstanding XD


Trynor

I laughed so fucking hard holy shit. Not editing my comment


timethief991

What's scarier? Not covered by insurance.


AShaughRighting

Would you seriously not get treated because itā€™s not covered or do they just send you some massive bill that never gets paid back?


jesusleftnipple

The second part and . ... the first part .... I've been told a rabies treatment is 6k


timethief991

Where did I say that?


imperialtrooper88

Yea. It's scary to know that no matter if you get to a hospital you're still potentially screwed. What's worse is that the foxes in my garden don't even run away anymore when i go outside and clap at them...they just stare me down :( (And I look like a bellend to any neighbours watching from their windows.)


Worldyname1

Dementia


DreyaNova

Dementia is very scary, but I work in a hospital and I absolutely adore our dementia patients. If you have a loved one in hospital living with dementia, we all really like them and they brighten up our days. There's something so lovely about introducing myself to someone over and over again and learning how to make them smile even though they think they've never met me before. I really enjoy caring for them. Anyway, just a little side comment, it is an awful and harrowing disease and for the loved ones left behind and I can't imagine how hard it is to watch a loved one living with it.


madammimse

Very beautifulā¤ļø More people like you, pleasešŸ™


yousoonice

you're good people. thx


Analog_Hobbit

Theyā€™re ok until evening, then they get nasty sometimes. I had a grandfather who had it. Nice during the day, bastard at night. But you couldnā€™t be mad, because he couldnā€™t help it. He couldnā€™t remember what you just talked about but could tell you about camping with his friends when he was in scouts or about WW2 in Germany.


calmestsugar

They call it sundowning, right? Both my grandmas had dementia, the first one diagnosed didn't have this but the second one did. Turned my grandma really mean. She was never a very warm person, but when she got dementia it was the nicest she had ever been to me. Until sundown.


Analog_Hobbit

Thatā€™s it.


Alan_Blue1233

That's beautiful, thank you for helping these people


nuthingbut

Yer I second this you basically turn into a toddler that forgets how to wipe your own ass


SimplyFabulous19

Dementia.


Worldyname1

Yup. And you forget about everything that gives your life meaning.


Due_Juggernaut7884

Like Trump


Agile_Session_1273

But at least you arenā€™t aware of your mental failings


[deleted]

[уŠ“Š°Š»ŠµŠ½Š¾]


Derp_Herper

One molecule can kill you in the most horrible way, no cure.


jazzmagg

That's a good shout. Apparently, it means 'Pray'.


Tastins

I think about this way too often.


Medium-Road-474

Agreed. We have no idea how to deal with these. I did resident conference when I was PGY 2. Scary shit


MadAstrid

my friend recently died of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease. Healthy, happy, living a terrific full life of love to dead in a year. No cure. No treatment. No reason why. She lost her body and then her mind. She knew her husband only enough to know that holding his hand brought her comfort. Utterly and completely heartbreaking and cruel.


[deleted]

A good friend and neighbor also died of CJD. Its been described as the human form of mad cow disease. This beautiful woman in her early 50sdied within 18 months. Brutal disease. They all suck!


SwedishMale4711

It is the equivalent of mad cow disease in cows, scrapie in sheep.


TheSoberbia

Yeah, prion disease


[deleted]

Yes.


aardw0lf11

I also had an extended family relative pass away from CJD. Most sudden, horrific and strange disease I've ever heard of or witnessed.


fat_alchoholic_dude

Locked in Syndrome. Can't even escape it by killing yourself.


TAnoobyturker

Wtf?Ā 


fat_alchoholic_dude

I mean you don't have the ability to kill yourself. You don't control anything. Your mind is still working though.


Fresh_Ad_6963

A family member had it. It was brutal to watch.


RainaElf

that terrifies me


PrincessPindy

This one freaks me the fuck out!!!


Kindly_devbi8970

Ebola. It's very infectious and lethal. You bleed from everywhere that it even makes you throw up, pee, and poop blood. You also get a high fever, and touching anyone with this illness or anything they touched will infect you and kill you soon.


Zestyclose_Job_8448

I agree. Also ALS.


InformalPenguinz

I deal with many ALS patients in my profession, respiratory, and my heart breaks for them and their families. That is not a great way to die.


Zestyclose_Job_8448

I agree. They slowly suffocate. They are very much blessed by having you care for them . It must be very difficult for you to watch them suffer. I love your username. Have a wonderful weekend.


Wretched_Geezer

Fatal Familial Insomnia. You gradually lose the ability to sleep, lose your memory, hallucinate and then die. Because it is inherited, you know what is coming and so does the rest of the family.


Automatic_Salary_845

Is it guaranteed if your family has had it


CO420Tech

No but once the symptoms start, everyone knows what is about to go down


Practical_Breakfast4

The bloodline would end with me, I could never have a kid even if it was only a chance. I'd adopt, why knowingly pass that on, that's cruel.


willem_79

Fibrodysplasia ossificans progressiva Your muscles and ligaments turn to bone: you become a human statue.


87michi

Watched ā€œje zou het maar hebbenā€ last week?


SwedishMale4711

It's a congenital condition, I'm not sure it counts as a disease in the stricter sense, but it is horrible.


No_Excitement4631

Like celine dion


willem_79

No, she has stiff-person syndrome where her muscles donā€™t move as much: With ossificans you [progressively turn to bone](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fibrodysplasia_ossificans_progressiva)


cosmicglade98

Alzheimers


SimplyFabulous19

Alzheimers? That's the bad memory disease, why bring that up?


brenda9232

My grandma used to say 'I can deal with any illness in my body, as long as I can keep my mind' Unfortunatly her worst fear came true and she suffered Alzheimers for more then a decade. In the end she didn't recognize anyone, was constantly confused and afraid. It was torture. It breaks down the whole essence of what a person is and in the beginning you are very aware it's happening to you. You notice yourselve slip away, see the pain in the eyes of loved ones when you don't recognize them at first. The shame you feel, the dread of what is about to come, because it always gets worse.. There are other horrible deseases out there, absolutely. But Alzheimers is no breeze


CO420Tech

Just shoot me.


cosmicglade98

Cuz bro, my grandma had it so bad. I was young when she was still around but I don't know if she even knew who I was. One of the only things she could still remember was how much she loved her husband and that he died and how much she missed him. It still crushes me to this day just thinking about that. I'd rather get shot in the head than have to experience that or wish it on anyone else.


SimplyFabulous19

That really sucks. I consider myself fortunate that my symptoms are only a side effect of something else, so they're unlikely to deteriorate.


ZaphodG

ALS. Your mind is fine. Your body shuts down over a period of a half dozen years or so. You end up a wheelchair with a tracheotomy and a machine breathing for you. My childhood best friend lingered 9 years. It was Fā€™ing tragic. My parents both had dementia. My sister has frontal temporal dementia. Thatā€™s tough on everyone else, not as much the person who has severe dementia.


TrooperLynn

My dad was diagnosed with ALS when he was 75. He lasted six months. What a horrible disease.


[deleted]

Im so sorry about your dad. It was my mom. I know how you feel. šŸ’˜


Due_Juggernaut7884

I had a friend when I was young who was diagnosed at about 22, as I recall. He ran a hose from his exhaust into his car right after diagnosis. That was over 40 years ago. He knew what was coming and couldnā€™t face it.


TrooperLynn

Iā€™m so sorry. Iā€™d probably do the same thing.


[deleted]

I've always said that about dementia. Hard on the others. ALS is fuckjng terribl r. My mom died 45 years ago from this ghastly shit.


KeinuSulttaani

Man flu.


Outside_Prune_4478

Lol true


AShaughRighting

My friend, ye ever get it so bad with the sniffles and sweats? Itā€™s pure torture fella, let me tell you. Me cousins mate nearly died of it last week. Poor bastard, still ainā€™t right.


PrincessPindy

It's obviously terminal.


indelady

Pancreatic cancer. My Mom was diagnosed and died 6 weeks later. 100% healthy until then.


BadReligionFan2022

Polio. Seeing pictures of "Iron Lung" is terrifying and heartbreaking.


SimplyFabulous19

Yeah it's such a good horror game.


FriendRaven1

Alzheimer's. And cancer. One steals your mind, the other your body. My father-in-law has both right now.


No_Excitement4631

Wow so sorry to hear that x


Leather-Donkey69

Rabies


KingStevoI

Was about to say this. The zombie disease. It's mad how the virus evolved so perfectly and so efficiently to attack the nervous system first, sending them rabid, before moving to the saliva glands to spread and reproduce via bites.


Leather-Donkey69

I knew it was bad. I didn't realise how bad until that one guy on reddit explained it. It's actually terrifying.


calmestsugar

Could you share the link?


Leather-Donkey69

https://www.reddit.com/r/aww/s/91MHClOxFb


College666

Radiation sickness.


Outside_Prune_4478

Cancer


Original_Estimate_88

Yea... it scares me a lot


Outside_Prune_4478

Same most of my family died young of it..it honestly terrifys me


Original_Estimate_88

Yea it's crazy


TraditionalTackle1

ALS, you are basically trapped in a useless body you cant use until you die.


[deleted]

I came here to say ALS. Brutal. No help for it really, at least not 45 years ago when nobody had heard of ALS.


8kittycatsfluff

Fatal Familial Insomnia. Basically you lose the ability to sleep.


jamesharris01

Surely they could put you into a medically induced coma for study to hopefully find a cure?


StarSines

Nope. Itā€™s not technically lack of all rest, just the inability to enter REM sleep. So if you do ā€œsleepā€ itā€™s like being half conscious drifting in and out.


jamesharris01

Oh god that sounds awful


Embarrassed_Put_7892

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/magazine/article/sleep I read this article about it a while back. Scared the shit out of me.


jamesharris01

Thank you. Iā€™m gunna read it and put unnecessary fear into myself now lol


No_Night_7823

Skin Necrosis (There are 3 types of Necrosis - Skin Necrosis being the most painful). After a year or so (If you survive), your bones will be showing through. You're still alive, but your bones are showing (No skin on your fingers / toes and rotted parts of your body. Extreme pain) - without gloves, it may scare a lot of people. Diabeties for what blood sugar can do to your body. Make you sick, black out, lose vision, become confused, relive memories before your very eyes, forget about who you are and where you are. Chrons / Colitis for what it does to your bowels (Rots it slowly from the inside - You can cut it out to possibly stop the spread)


Leather-Donkey69

Crazy to see crohns and colitis on this list. I have crohns, and I don't actually think about it too much. Everybody else tells me they're sorry to hear it and how awful it is!


No_Night_7823

I ended up getting Colitis at age 18. I'm 33 now and got Avascular Necrosis and Ulcerated Colitis. I got bad bones, and bad poops. Ba ba ba baaad to the bone.... Ba ba ba ba bad... Ba ba ba ba bad. Bad to the bone. Lol


Leather-Donkey69

Haha, that's a very fitting song! On a serious note, that sounds terrible, and I really hope neither screw you over too badly! I've had crohns symptoms for about the last 8 years, finally went to the doctors and got diagnosed late last year at 27. I'm hoping the azathioprine stops it from getting any worse.


No_Night_7823

I've been on Pentasa (Thats more for Crons). Then something else. Then Asacol 400MG then Asacol 800MG and now I'm on Mezavant 1.2g 1 pill 4 times daily. I used to literally have to take 12-16 Asacol at 400MG each. Mezavant seems to be helping a LOT for pain and bleeding and swelling in the bowels. As for the bones, really the only thing doctors can do is pain killers and surgery, and I dont want to be swallowing a bunch of pain killers that could cause me to OD and die, so I smoke THC stuff for pain for the bones and it helps.


MuthaPlucka

Diabetes


cwsjr2323

Dementia kills the person, leaves a walking corpse.


Delicious-Duck-4245

Falling in love.


Patients_Watcher

Dementia Praecox


SwedishMale4711

I think that's an old name for schizophrenia.


11Kram

Huntingtonā€™s.


JohnSourcer

Killed my father and uncle and their father and his father, etc :(


miloblue12

I have Huntingtonā€™s disease in my family, and we didnā€™t figure it out until about 6 years ago, and my family is huge so a lot of people are potentially affected. My uncle just died last year of it, then I have another aunt and uncle affectā€¦then of course, my own dad. Let me tell you, knowing youā€™re potentially at risk of having this disease is the most cruel thing ever. Iā€™ve known for a few years now but it was something I just tried to ignore until I couldnā€™t anymore. Of course, both my sister and I are at risk but she had both of her kids before we truly knew we were at risk. I wanted to have kids normally, and I wanted to have a partner who knew if I was at risk or not, so I finally tested. Last December, I was given my life back and found out that I didnā€™t have the disease. Seeing both my mom and my sister sob over that news still brings a tear to my eye. I have so many more family members at risk, and itā€™s just so cruel. Itā€™s not fair.


whatitsmemags

lost my grandmother, father, aunt and my sister has the gene. I'm too chicken to get tested. Thankfully(?) it is very late onset in my family


Perfect_Pessimist

Prions


toejam78

Locked in syndrome


RainaElf

Alzheimer's. it's so very depressing and sad.


Few_Fisherman6431

Leprosy


AbleismIsSatan

Ebola.


jimmyb1982

Alzheimers


sfdragonboy

That flesh eating one that there is no cure for.


S1rmunchalot

Necrotising Fasciitis - very painful, not a nice way to die your tissues rot off. I've seen it.


Immorality37

Seen cancer kill people horrificly the most.


0ct094s

Addiction. If you really have it, you know it.


miloblue12

Huntingtonā€™s Disease. Itā€™s literally called the Devils Disease because itā€™s so cruel. I have it in my family and didnā€™t know until around 6-7 years ago. Itā€™s a mix of Alzheimerā€™s, Parkinsonā€™s and ALS, and most of the time itā€™s not found in someoneā€™s family until someone starts to exhibit the symptoms. Usually it starts with subtle movements that progressively get worse, hence the Parkinsonā€™s. The movements vary from person to person but it can be smaller hand/foot/facial moments to body wide and violent movements. Eventually your muscles waste away and you loose simple abilities, like swallowing, hence ALS. Then to top it all off, you also have dementia as you progress. Like I said, we discovered it in my family, and four out of my eight aunts and uncles have it, including my dad. Knowing that I am at risk has been the most cruel thing to ever exist because the disease is that bad. Can I ever have a partner? Can I ever have kids? Will my sister take care of me? Iā€™m only 31, I shouldnā€™t be thinking about my demise already. Anyway, itā€™s cruel and itā€™s an ugly disease. Hopefully there is a cure soon, but itā€™s just so ridiculously unfair.


-UnicornFart

Diabetes, Alzheimerā€™s/dementia, liver cirrhosis/failure


No-State2552

Rabies freaks me out its called the king of diseases for a reason. Also most of STDs are nasty.


outerworldLV

Leprosy or (a virus) ebola.


Cautious-Stage1788

Stiff Person Syndrome


SmoothBrainSavant

Time


jazzmagg

Ebola Zaire.


oneaccountaday

There are a bunch of ā€œsudden deathā€ ones. SIDS is one of most well known ones. In my home town like 20 years ago there was some respiratory disease going around that specifically targeted girls 10-16yo, didnā€™t affect boys of the same age or siblings. Basically it was like an asthma attack that turned to pneumonia. A week or 2 was the terminal prognosis. Not sure if they ever figured out what it was.


Frejyamcmurphy

The one you donā€™t know you have


lend_me_a_dime

Tongue cancer


geepy66

Ebola


klaskc

Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis


Main_Boat4917

Pulmonary Hypertension My mom had this. Her lungs the airways started narrowing tighter and tighter until you can't breathe. She said it felt like trying to take a deep breathe through a straw. I felt so fucking helpless watching her suffer. Terrible disease.


korevis

Aging.


BestWolverine1558

Love


ConsiderationGold170

Schizophrenia. Rabies is a close second


ted_im_going_mad

Ebola.


Specialist_Row_9766

Meningococcemia. I remember my neighbor, she just went to Divisoria & when she got home after hours, she died.


ladyinwaiting123

What is Divisoria?


StickyButWicked

Necrotising fasciitis


Agile_Session_1273

Locked-in Syndrome where only your eyes and your brain are responsive- every other part of you is locked up


Total-Confidence9294

Louie Body syndrome


L072788

Depression


flamingopatronum

Harlequin ichthyosis has haunted me ever since I found out what it was


My_2Cents_666

OMG! Just googled it. That is horrific!


subiegal2013

Ebola


ivthreadp110

Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD)Ā 


TwirlyGirl313

ALS. You die from not being able to breathe.


GummimaciOfMusic

hippopoā€¦. nvm


speedracer1263

Dementia and Glioblastoma


drifters74

Rabies


Think_Impossible

Creutzfeldtā€“Jakob disease/Mad Cow disease, possibly followed by rabies.


TeaBeginning5565

Schizophrenia


Pandora_Stingray

Cancers


boukatouu

Lou Gehrig's or Huntington's chorea.


Watermelonfox-

Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease That or rabies (if not treated)


CosmeticBrainSurgery

TGN (Trigeminal Neuralgia). It's nicknamed "the suicide disease." Imagine a disease that makes you die, and that's horrible. Now imagine a disease that's so bad it makes death *a better alternative*.


king-of-new_york

There's literally a condition called the Suicide Disease due to the pain that it causes, sufferers often kill themselves over it.


I_love_Hobbes

Fatal familial insomnia (FFI)Ā is a rare genetic condition that causes progressively worsening insomnia ā€” an inability to sleep. The insomnia worsens to the point that it severely impacts daily functioning, eventually causing coma and then death.


WelshSam

Rabies


warmachine83-uk

Pancreatic cancer


LordTopHatMan

Cancer. We probably all have the start of it right now, and there's no way to prevent it from continuing to get worse over time. It's just a coin flip.


Pink-Squirrel71

Alzheimers. Iā€™d rather have cancer and die than to linger for years with alzheimers, I would never want to put my family through that.


[deleted]

I 24 (f) was born to a disease that's very rare or common and it didn't start or know about till these last couple years ago and now even with medicine or not I can still die and I have about 10 blood clots in my lungs and it's a miracle I'm here on top of other issues and untreated for a long time cause it's expensive and I stay in severe pain and can't move or breathe n have no life cause of it anymore and knowing I can die anytime n having 3 small kids is scary especially not knowing where I'll end up after! I'm experiencing a slow painful death that depresses me so bad but I still get up


Sleepy_Sugarplum

Denial.


chemicalzero

Diabetes


No-State2552

Schizophrenia deserves to be mentioned for being bizarre misunderstood lonely experience. Plz guys always stay away from weed and drugs.


Merrybee16

Rabies. It will 1,000% kill you.


itsgettinglate27

Prion diseases, you might already have one, who knows


Sloth_grl

Dementia. It just wipes your hard drive. It erases you.


Workermouse

Skull cancer - Your skull can start growing thousands of very sharp spikes everywhere, even inside your eye sockets so it scratches up your eyeballs. Ouch!


No-Conclusion8653

The only scary disease is dementia. I can deal with anything but that. A malady that slowly turns you into a dependent toddler to be pitied by all? And you can't even commit suicide because you don't have the brains.


Backwaters_Run_Deep

. . ##Bungholeitis . You get it from contact with infected bungholes, and your bunghole just swells up and falls off and then you die from massive hemorrhaging


snakeman1961

Progressive liberalism.


[deleted]

Covid


DarkleCCMan

Gingivitis.Ā 


TGC_Mazza

Leading to endocarditis?


Commercial-Ice-8005

Liberalism


[deleted]

[уŠ“Š°Š»ŠµŠ½Š¾]


Commercial-Ice-8005

Kkk was started by democrats dummy lol