While having a conversation with his girlfriend, he realized how little information he actually knew about it, so he watched an entire video that offered a 3D rendering of what happens to a woman's body during the menstrual cycle, focusing on the five-day period itself, and his eyes were opened.
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Some TikTokers were left skeptical, wondering how he was only reaching these conclusions now.
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Seriously, did he think this was the woman's version of a "man cold" or something?
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Others pointed out that there were far more symptoms than "just" cramps and bleeding.
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Not to mention how young girls are when they first start menstruating.
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Now that the TikToker was better informed, his fellow TikTokers encouraged him to share the knowledge.
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Though his fellow TikTokers were skeptical at first about his newfound knowledge about the menstruation cycle, @connortalkslol did not stop his research with the 3D rendering.
Instead, he continued to research what he found in the comments section, including comparisons of period pain to heart attacks, period cramps being miniature versions of contractions that women experience in the weeks leading up to childbirth, "period poops," "period jellyfish," the dangers of endometriosis, and a woman's inability to take off time at work for menstruation purposes without being reprimanded.
One TikToker summed up all of Connor's research perfectly:
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It seems like this is information that should already be well-known and widespread across the entire human population, but because of how health education is structured, young boys and girls are still often segregated into boy-only and girl-only groups to learn the information that pertains specifically to them, like menstruation for girls and young women.
Arguably, though, this is information that affects everyone. From understanding what their mothers, sisters, cousins, close friends, girlfriends, possibly wives, and of course, coworkers, are going through, it's just as important for men to receive this information as it is for women when they are young so they can better understand and empathize with the world around them.
Lilah is a keeper of several dozen chickens that she had raised from eggs, and she keeps them as pets and sells their eggs to members of the community. But the neighbor's dog had already attacked on her property multiple times, sometimes killing one chicken and sometimes several.
The neighbor insisted that this land belonged to the dog and that there was nothing they could do about the dog's behavior. They placed the responsibility on Lilah to close up her chickens where the dog wouldn't be able to reach them. The problem was that Lilah had an enclosed area for the chickens, a yard to free graze, as well as their front porch, and the dog welcomed itself into every space.
Lilah noted that after the sixth attack, the neighbor remained unwilling to help, so Lilah's husband stated that he planned to shoot the dog if it came on the property again to attack the chickens.
While she didn't want anything bad to happen to the dog, it was clear that the situation wasn't going to improve if something with the dog itself didn't change.
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In a video posted the next day, Lilah collected video footage from her outdoor cameras of many of the incidents in which the neighbor's dog came on to her property and hurt her animals.
In many cases, the dog could be seen cornering and killing the chickens, while others caught glimpses of the dog racing through the yard after the flock, with notes of how many chickens he'd killed that day. In the final segment, Lilah found one of her chickens wounded and brought her into her home, hoping she'd recover from her severe dog bites.
While they didn't necessarily condone violence, some TikTokers pointed out it was Lilah's right to defend her livestock by any means necessary.
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Others went so far as to say that she would be negligent toward her family if she continued to be so patient.
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As heart-wrenching as it might be to think of hurting the dog to stop the behavior, this was one of those situations where the dog had basically been taught that this was okay behavior because of not being corrected sooner, and other animals were harmed and killed because of it.
Though they might not need to harm it, perhaps filing reports and putting a price on each chicken would encourage the dog's owners to better retain it.
When she finally went to the ER and explained that her legs hurt and what her experience had been, the medical staff soon inquired whether or not she had diabetes, which, to her knowledge, she did not.
However, a lengthy series of blood work and other tests soon revealed that she had a blood sugar level of 700 and an A1C, the measure of sugar in the bloodstream, of 14. For reference, average levels are below 150 and six.
It was at that time that a doctor admitted:
"I'm surprised you're not unresponsive. I'm surprised you walked in here yourself."
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Fellow TikTokers were shocked that @oujibug's situation got that bad.
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Others were depressed that some of this could have been prevented if medical care were not so expensive.
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The TikToker remained in the hospital for several days while the doctors worked to regulate her blood sugar and start her on medications that would assist with her newly diagnosed diabetes and leg pain while being compatible with her history of depression.
Unfortunately, her leg pain was a product of the undetected diabetes, which had caused autonomic polyneuropathy, an extensive and irreversible nerve damage in her legs. It's also unfortunately a diagnosis that will continue to progress, though she was also placed on medication that will help to slow the progression down.
The problem was that now that her diabetes was being treated, she was also experiencing treatment-induced neuropathy, which was caused by her body's reaction to the sudden level changes in her body, causing the pain to severely spike.
It is fortunate that @oujibug went to the emergency room when she did to address these dangerous issues, and that the treatment-induced neuropathy will go away after her body has had time to stabilize and adjust.
Because of her commitment to immediately changing her diet and exercise, as well as closely monitoring her sugar levels, she's doing everything to make her situation as positive as possible, no matter how bleak it might feel during the transition.
