From @lailalevander --- πDo you have any embarrassing heart-related moments?
I do actually! Somewhat related to the recent post I made. There were some times where I came out to my friends with my fascination with heartbeats. Some of those times, they had found my stethoscopes before I ever decided to bring it up in the first place. At the time I was kinda being a bit of an open book so I would just plainly say that I enjoyed listening to them and that it was comforting to me. Thankfully they never asked any further questions after I gave them that explanation.
One of my super close friends, also mentioned in another post, found my stash of medical goodies while we were hanging out. This included my ultrasound machine, steths, everything. He knew that I just liked heartbeats before hand but he had absolutely no clue how deep that rabbit hole went. He was playfully curious and I got to have a bit of a show and tell with all the things I had there. Along with some mutual demonstrations. We kept it PG but he said it was honestly really cool and amazing that I had all that stuff. I could tell he had a lot of fun and after that he let me listen to his more often.
Lastly, was this one time when I was still in school where another student randomly brought a stethoscope with them. No one else seemed to really care that he had it but I sure did the moment I spotted him with it around his neck. I tried my best to push this random event to the back of my mind and ignore it though the rest of class but that day he chose to sit beside me on my left. I remember during a break in class I heard him call my name and I just turned to him to ask what was up. Only to have the diaphragm of the steth pressed into the center of my chest the moment I finished turning to meet him. I was so flustered and confused that it left me utterly stunned. I must have been completely red in the face and his eyes were wide. "Wow! Your heart is SO. LOUD! " is all he said as he listened and thankfully for not much longer. Once he stopped listening he just turned back to his friends and no one ever spoke of it again lol.
But yeah those are some of the more notable moments I can think of from my past. Post this ask was from linked below.
Leave one (or more~) of the Heart Icons below in my Ask Box, and Iβll answer:
β€οΈ Would you rather Steth or be Stethed?
π Whatβs your favor