being ill

I believed that Ping Pong Balls was a venerial disease you got from Chinese people

madeeum

I used to believe that when you went to the doctor for a check-up and when you had to pee in the cup that you had to drink it and I would cry.

Anon

When I was about 5 years old I had a bad headache and I yelled to my mom "My head hurts!" and she replied with "Would you like an aspirin?" I got this shocked look on my face and toppled over the couch crying, my mom walked over and asked what the matter was, I said "Mommy, your not going to burn my ass are you?"

Clint

Ways to catch a cold: Running around the house in bare feet, catching a cold breeze while your hair was wet, and not buttoning your coat when you went outside.

Donna M. Gage

I thought diarrhea happens when your butt gets sick and vomits.

Boogeyman

When my daughter was small she developed tonsillitis but she told everyone she had "tongues and lighters"

Jeannie Bee

At my grandma's, my cousin had fallen asleep on the couch and drooled on a cushion. I woke her up and asked her what it was, thinking that she had been sick and didn't realise it.

Anon

When I was ill as a child, generally a 24-hour bug or something, my mother would give me some of her "secret" medicine. It was clear and slightly sparkly, and had a very unpleasant taste, but sure enough, I tended to feel better after taking it.

Naturally, I came to believe that the "secret" medicine could cure anything, since I always got better when I took it instead of having to go to the doctor's. Therefore, if you made enough of it, you could cure everybody in the world and there wouldn't be any need for hospitals any more.

I was eleven and helping look after my brother when I finally got disillusioned. The so-called "medicine" was water with sugar and salt in it... I still don't know if it actually had any beneficial effect, or if she was just trying to trick me into feeling better.

silverstar1809

My mom and I were standing in line at McDonalds, I asked her "What are those red dots on that guys face?" I am sure she must have answered acne, but somehow I heard AIDS, and for a long time believed that anyone with red dots on his/her face had AIDS. It must have been around the same time as we had the STD talk because one of my friend's wanted to be blood sisters and I said, "no, blood touching blood can give you AIDS!", and her mom was like, "I'm sure she cant give you AIDS, she doesnt have it," and I was like, "no, I'm pretty sure it is just the blood mixing with the other blood that gives it to you, one of you doesnt have to have it first." needless to say, we werent blood sisters.

Anon

When I was little I used to fake being sick a lot, because then I got to stay in bed and get spoiled by my grandparents, then this guy dressed in white started stopping by every time I was faking, and my gp's would tell me it was the doctor and he was going to operate on me, needless to say all of a sudden I was all healthy and out of bed.

Later in life I found out that the guy was a mason who worked in the same company as my grandfather grrr.

Brian

I used to believe that getting a needle and not crying was extremely brave and grown up. Therefore, I liked needles because they were a chance for me to show that I was a very very brave person! (And now I have developed a phobia of needles, funnily enough.)

Anon

I used to think that a staph infection was called a staff infection, therefore only teachers could get it.

Aretia

In primary school, I thought my teacher was diabetic, because she was testing a pen on her finger, and the red ink looked like blood.
I thought 'how can she be allowed to do that when she's working, in front of us kids?!'

Anon

I used to think Cancer Research was just people learning about the disease and thought all the money would go to doctors and medical students because they would be using expensive computers and would have to pay a big internet bill for all the different websites they visited!!!!

Natasha

I used to think that marching band uniforms were what sick people wore. I don't know where I got that idea from!

Anon

When I was 14, my friend brought some of her dads home made beer into school, and we drank the bottle between us. That night, I couldn't stop being sick, and all the next day too. I was in complete agony, I couldn't understand how home brew had caused this much pain, but I had to keep quiet as to why I was feeling so ill, by day 3 my little brother found me crying my eyes out in pain, . My dad sent for the doctor and he said I had appendicitis, I got admitted and my operation was put off due to an emergency, so I didn't get my operation until the next day. The surgeon told my parents that I was very lucky, it had almost burst.
I only owned up to my drinking binge a couple of years ago (33), that I had nearly died due to the fear that I would get caught for drinking alcohol. There's a lesson to be learned somewhere...

Lisa-Dionne

when i started to hiccup, but cousin told me to drink some water, but i didnt listen to him. he then told me that if i didnt drink some water, i would die, and i believed him.

mare

Once, when I was about 8, I twisted a nerve and it made my left arm feel really weird and kind of numb. I remembered from science class that if your heart stops, the first thing to go numb will be your left arm. I completely freaked out and made my mom take me to the doctors immediatly! When we got there, the doctor told me I was not dying, that I just twisted a nerve and it would repair itself. And here I thought I was having a heart attack!

Hannah

When i was very young I got sick and started hallucinating, I would ask my mum what's that? (pointing to my hallucinations). She tried to explain that she couldn't see them too but I couldn't comprehend that so she would just say random things like, 'lamp post' or 'cat'. Funnily enough as soon as she said something that is what my hallucination would morph into.

Anon

I was terrified of breaking a bone, i thought it was the worse thing that cold happen to you. I would exemine my elbow bone every morning bcos it stuck out (like its meant 2) and i thought there was something wrong with it. i was so scared.
All this changed when i broke my arm and i realised breaking a bone wasn't actually that bad.

Anon