Leslie John

Finally, the patient fessed up and, um,

the surgery was aborted.

Yes, this one's even more shocking because...

It was a life-threatening situation.

So before the surgery, the surgeon asks the patient, you know, are you taking any medications?

And the patient says no.

And then the surgeon comes out to the waiting room just before he's about to operate and says to the mom, are you sure she's not taking anything?

Again, the surgeon had kind of a sixth sense.

And then the mother said, nope, nothing.

Finally, the surgeon asked again and is imploring her to be honest.

Please, please, this is your daughter's life.

And finally, and it wasn't even the daughter that revealed this.

It was her mother that finally revealed that the child, the daughter, the grown daughter was taking weight loss supplements, but of course was too ashamed to say so.

And I guess that interferes with bleeding or something.

And that literally saved her life.

The surgeon ran back in.

It was that serious.

So it's really, it's very real, the shame we feel around opening up, the apprehension, the worry that someone's going to judge us is a very, very real concern.

Because look at the lengths people go to to avoid it.

Yes.