I fear I've been living my entire life wrong.

I'm a Staff Writer for BuzzFeed, often covering topics like '90s–'00s nostalgia, relationships, food, history, celeb culture, and anything else the internet is buzzing about.

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"Diabetes is the number-one cause of kidney failure. When your blood sugar is really high, it acts like tiny shards of glass in your nephrons (the little filters in your kindeys) and essentially kills them. Same with high blood pressure. It's like putting a fire hose on a garden bed. Take your meds, and control your diseases as much as possible. Don't end up on dialysis."

"Also, you cannot see your vagina when you're not wearing underwear. It's my pet peeve when reality stars say someone's vagina is showing."

I was in church with my parents one morning and got a really bad whiff of a diabetic ulcer from someone. It drove me nuts knowing someone had something really bad was going on, possibly untreated, and I wasn't sure who."

"I've seen some parents who don't even treat a fever, and their reasoning is, 'Well, I wanted you to see that they had a fever and I wasn't lying.'"

"It's always the little old ladies who take two squares of tissue-thin, one-ply toilet paper, crumple it into a little ball, pinch it between all five of their fingers, and then reach all the way back and aggressively smear their fresh, pasty bowel movement into their vagina and then pull their pants up."

"Wiping front to back. The number of student nurses in my class who didn't know this was concerning."

"Tylenol is to acetaminophen as Kleenex is to tissues."

"Coming in an ambulance doesn’t secure you a spot at the front of the line. IDK why people think that."

"I have had so many laypeople argue with me about this and it’s so frustrating. I tell them, 'Do you want to be liable for all of their dental work when their teeth are busted?'"

"I'm a hospice nurse, and maybe 20 percent of my patients have a truly peaceful passing in their sleep with no meds; the rest usually require a regimen for symptoms."

Note: Some responses have been edited for length and/or clarity.