by Kein » Mar 30, '15, 1:00 pm
Word gets out, someone knows and someone says so-and-so was in the hospital and it can spread like wildfire. Someone is missing from an event? Oh they were in the hospital? Everyone knows.
I think a lot of people don't want to talk about their hospital visits because it can be embarrassing. Something eventful like a broken bone is really not that big of a deal, it was an accident, they have a cast on, it's already out there.
But if they have kidney stones, or almost went into a diabetic coma, that speaks more for their health and their lifestyle that maybe they don't want everyone to know. People can make assumptions about how they live, what they eat, how active they are, etc. People assume, they really do, and when someone has health problems some people discredit anything they say, pertaining to the subject.
It depends on the issue, but it's also sometimes just a hassle to explain. If you got all your friends one by one finding out, you get to tell them the history of why you are in the state you are in, what you need to do to fix it, have them nag you if you aren't doing it right (cause everyone is a specialist, I mean we read on the internet.....) and it really gets old. You might be hearing it once, but they could be explaining it for the 20th time. Sometimes it's easier to just not get into it, e.i. say it was nothing.