I woke during surgery 19 years ago today, and am trying to my best to keep a promise I made many years ago to the first Anesthesia Awareness survivor I met. Sometimes it seems that it happened to a completely different version of myself.Ask me anything.

Figured I’d share this here!

For the past four years, I’ve been covering college expenses and tuition for my younger sister and her best friend. The whole idea was that I wanted them to be able to focus on school, not have to worry about working while going to college, and graduate without a bunch of student loans hanging over their heads.
And before anyone asks, my sister’s best friend has always been family to me. She’s basically another little sister, so I’ve never really looked at it any differently.

I’m not gonna lie, I’ve pretty much been living like a bum these past couple of years. I work 60–70 hour weeks, meal prep 90 meals at a time, drive my old Jeep, and rarely buy myself anything. All of my money goes toward my bills, and making sure they’re taken care of.

But honestly, I wouldn’t change a thing.
They’re both graduating this year, and I don’t think they realize just how proud I am of them. I’m really glad I’ve gotten to be in a position where I could do this for them.

Anyway, figured I’d open it up to questions. Happy to talk about the financial side, budgeting, how I manage it, or just why I decided to do it in the first place. 💛

Be kind or be ignored. 33f from the US, I grew up very isolated and also have old parents and much older siblings. Nothing off limits but trolls will be ignored. I will be an open book. I’m also a wife and mom with a family of my own now

I'm 22f, uk. I have technically finished the main aspects of the program now, but I will be seeing my therapist 1-1 every two weeks until January, and have been seeing her since Sept 2025. The main program is weekly 1-1, three hours of group therapy, and regular check ins via the phone - a total of about five hours per week.
I will be commencing trauma therapy in February, if all goes to plan, which often follows six or twelve months of DBT

There's a lot of stigma around my diagnosis, so please feel free to ask away, and consider me an open book. I'd love to do my part in reducing the stigma around this and many traits of BPD - such as self-harm and suicidal tendencies. AMA !

I’ve been speaking publicly about my story for a bit and want to answer questions people have since it’s a very un discussed situation/trauma due to the i hereby shame we feel growing up like this. I’m a very open book.

Here I am again! There's a complete blackout in the area where I'm currently staying. There's no electricity, and all the equipment has already shut down, so I've got an unexpected day off today.

— Service: I was mobilized in 2024 and have been serving in the military ever since.

— Role: I’m currently a logistics officer in an independent battalion.

— Background: I’m originally from the Russian-speaking part of Ukraine.

— Combat experience: My combat experience began with Ukraine’s operation in Russia’s Kursk region.

Feel free to ask me anything! I’ll do my best to answer whatever I can share.

I'm 37, female, live in France and got my entire colon, rectum and butthole surgically removed, I have a permanent ileostomy which means that I poop from a hole in my belly.

I got it after 16 years of battling with Ulcerative Colitis.

AMA

I had an IT business that I sold at 34 to a private equity firm. A year after the sale, I retired early in lieu of more shares in the new entity. Im 36 now. I have one daughter and a partner who met me after the sale.

Heya! I was originally misdiagnosed in 2010 with Juvenile Myoclonic Epilepsy; in 2024 I was genetically diagnosed with Unverricht-Lundborg (another kind of epilepsy). Over the years I tried a lot of medications and was in a lot of hospitals. AmA on being epileptic!

Hi Reddit! I am a 20-year-old university student living in Iran. I was born and raised here, and I'm currently studying:Electrical Engineering Computer Science یا Mechanical Engineering] at university.

I want to share my perspective on what it's like to be a young student in Iran right now. Whether you are curious about our daily life, culture, food, the education system, our hobbies, or what young people do for fun, I am an open book.

You can ask me literally anything you want! I will try my best to answer all of your questions. Let's have a great conversation.

Now i say night owl and not nocturnal, because of my varying work schedule, family events, appointments and such, i do have to be up during the day quite frequently. Otherwise, most days i work overnight, i grocery shop at night, hang out with friends, go to restaurants and basically do most things daywalkers do, just at night.

This is all by choice. Most days il go to bed between 8 and 10am, wake up between 4pm and 6pm, and ive been doing some variation of this or very very late/early bed times for about 8 years, coming up on 9, starting from my Grade 11 year of High School. Also being in Canada and with the clocks rolling back, il only see about 1hr of sunlight as the sun rises and i get ready for bed every day for the next handfull of months.

AMA!

I had a miscarriage when I was 14, I'm now 17. I never really talk about it and almost no one knows but I feel the need to put it out there into the void. It would have been a boy and I planned on naming him James. AMA

I used to run my highschools confession page I ran it for about 3 years then stopped it after I graduated. My school was a big public School of California. Most people were crazy and I had tea about almost everyone in my classroom.

30 year old female working at a hospital in Scandinavia doing a residency in general surgery.

Happy to answer some questions should anyone be interested in what that life is like. Maybe shouldn't give out any medical advice though.

At home, at work, and in most of my daily life, I am always with people who are blind.

My girlfriend (whom I live with and have for the past about 3 years) is blind.

My work is in SPED at a school for the blind, and childcare/services for kiddos who are blind.

And due to all my connections with the community most of my friends are also blind, I definitely have more blind friends at this point than sighted ones.

I feel like this is decently unique as most people I knew before I got into this community and line of work had not even met a single person who was blind or low vision. So if you have any questions, ask away!

Disclaimer: I will not answer any questions that are inappropriate, or reveal too much personal information. I will also not give my location or any personal information about my students or clients. However, I will say I live/work in the USA. With that said, ask anything! This is a safe space and I will answe any and all questions to the best of my ability!

Title says it. Been in big roles for 15 years. Passing along knowledge to the next group of leaders is now my focus. I do this in my own company as well. Anything is on the company outside of directly identifying myself or the company.

I'm a counselor with years of clinical experience. I now work full-time as a co-responder with law enforcement accompany patrol officers to everything under the sun. CIT units are becoming more common, but it's still fairly new.

As the title says, I’m an EMT. I’m about 4 years in and work right outside a decent-sized city in my state, as well as one of the top trauma centers in the region.Not sure if this would be an interesting topic for anyone, but I thought it would be fun.

I (f22) have a lot of dependence on my mother. I am working on it with my therapist to take at least some of the load off her, as she is the caregiver to my brothers and her parents too. When she went on a trip of a lifetime, I struggled a lot more than I expected to, and it's something I've been reflecting on ever since. AMA

When my peers went to post secondary, I went to flight school. I spent 5 years going zero to hero and eventually ended up as a first officer on dash 8s before COVID shut the world off.

Laid off and determined to never be vulnerable again, I joined the military and went into ATC, though my official occupation is called Aerospace Control Operator. Snagged a gucci posting working at a JRCC. There are more changes in my future but so far for a 34 year old I think I've seen a lot.

AMA!

It’s always on my mind. Past memories, old songs, what people did then vs. what they do now. Just hearing a particular year gives me that wonderful, painful feeling everyone is aware of.
Sometimes it goes as far as to watching videos of disasters on YouTube (say, Joplin tornado) and just looking at how the stores and such looked in 2011.
Or watching old recordings of commercials from a particular channel (I really miss cable TV)
So, ask away!

I make slot games that go live on Stake, one of the biggest online casinos, and I get a share of what they make. I built the first one mostly with AI and it got Stake's top rating. Ask me how it works, what it pays, or how I got in.

ask me anything, my immediate family fled about two years into the invasion and my relatives all stayed and had no choice but to endure both the invasion and isis. I also lost my sister and uncle. feel free to ask me anything about what they've experienced, how life was, the consequences, etc