When a rash or an odd-looking spot appears on our body, we tend to instinctively brush it off as nothing. But for these people, it turned out to be a sign of a severe illness that left some of them staring the Grim Reaper right in the face.

What you’re about to read are responses to this Quora question: “What was something small you went to the doctor for that turned out to be very significant?”

Answers came flooding in. Some people shared the worst and most painful ways they found out they had cancer or organ infections. Others learned they were within days of death because of a bruise on their arm.

You would want to read these stories. Enjoy scrolling through.

Not me, but my husband. In mid-March 2012, he started waking each morning with pain in his lower right abdomen. It would last

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