Without modern medicine, when would you have probably died?
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I guess it depends on what you class as modern and medicine really.
I'm as blind as a bat for starters. But have worn glasses then contact lenses since I was about 7.
I don't think I would have lasted long as a teenager without glasses given how short sighted I am. Falling down stairs or walking out in front of a car and suchlike would have been inevitable.
I'm as blind as a bat for starters. But have worn glasses then contact lenses since I was about 7.
I don't think I would have lasted long as a teenager without glasses given how short sighted I am. Falling down stairs or walking out in front of a car and suchlike would have been inevitable.
Hard to say given we are immunised against many deadly diseases - and others are prevented from spreading and becoming an epidemic because they are stopped in their tracks when minor outbreaks do occur.
I havent really had a serious illness so far - but how many diseases would/could I have been exposed to without the above being in place.
I havent really had a serious illness so far - but how many diseases would/could I have been exposed to without the above being in place.
Severe chest infection that was actually making it hard for me to breathe in and out. It was an physical chore to do either. I honestly felt like I would not make it through the night. Antibiotics sorted it.
Daughter was born by emergency C section. Once the emergency was declared it was proper scary stuff. Literally running with the bed, and a nurse shouting at people to get out of the way, My wife was operated on while still in her clothes.
Daughter was born by emergency C section. Once the emergency was declared it was proper scary stuff. Literally running with the bed, and a nurse shouting at people to get out of the way, My wife was operated on while still in her clothes.
Edited by 98elise on Friday 16th March 19:38
funkyrobot said:
I think that without antibiotics, a severe bout of pleurisy would have probably killed me when I was 28.
My 3 year old daughter wouldn't be here, and my wife probably would have died without the emergency c section that saved both of them.
14th April 1984, I was dead for a bit but I'm feeling much better now My 3 year old daughter wouldn't be here, and my wife probably would have died without the emergency c section that saved both of them.
Say what you will about the NHS but when you *need* it it's bloomin ace.
WinstonWolf said:
funkyrobot said:
I think that without antibiotics, a severe bout of pleurisy would have probably killed me when I was 28.
My 3 year old daughter wouldn't be here, and my wife probably would have died without the emergency c section that saved both of them.
14th April 1984, I was dead for a bit but I'm feeling much better now My 3 year old daughter wouldn't be here, and my wife probably would have died without the emergency c section that saved both of them.
Say what you will about the NHS but when you *need* it it's bloomin ace.
What killed you? Or are you forbidden from telling?
WinstonWolf said:
Say what you will about the NHS but when you *need* it it's bloomin ace.
Got to agree with that. For all the stick people give the NHS it's nice to know that if one of my vital organs decides to stop cooperating, then I can be reasonably sure that within a few minutes of having the problem I'll be in the care of some very smart, very well trained people. We live opposite a large playing field which seems to be used as a pick up point for the air ambulance. We often see an ambulance screech up to the playing field with blue and twos going and within a couple of minutes the helicopter will be orbiting the field before whisking the patient off to some distant specialist hospital. Millions of pounds worth of training and equipment employed to save a life.... money very well spent.
There are many countries in the world where you'd be on your own the second something went badly wrong.
funkyrobot said:
WinstonWolf said:
funkyrobot said:
I think that without antibiotics, a severe bout of pleurisy would have probably killed me when I was 28.
My 3 year old daughter wouldn't be here, and my wife probably would have died without the emergency c section that saved both of them.
14th April 1984, I was dead for a bit but I'm feeling much better now My 3 year old daughter wouldn't be here, and my wife probably would have died without the emergency c section that saved both of them.
Say what you will about the NHS but when you *need* it it's bloomin ace.
What killed you? Or are you forbidden from telling?
WinstonWolf said:
funkyrobot said:
WinstonWolf said:
funkyrobot said:
I think that without antibiotics, a severe bout of pleurisy would have probably killed me when I was 28.
My 3 year old daughter wouldn't be here, and my wife probably would have died without the emergency c section that saved both of them.
14th April 1984, I was dead for a bit but I'm feeling much better now My 3 year old daughter wouldn't be here, and my wife probably would have died without the emergency c section that saved both of them.
Say what you will about the NHS but when you *need* it it's bloomin ace.
What killed you? Or are you forbidden from telling?
I've died and come back a few times...
Jun 2005 - Cardiac Arrests x3 aged 34 shocked back to life in the ambuance on the way to hospital, then twice more in A&E.
Jul 2013 - Cardiac Arrest, somehow my heart re-started by itself, Defib implanted.
Dec 2013 - Another cardiac arrest, zapped back by my defib.
Jun 2014 - Yet another Cardiac Arrest, zapped back by my defib.
Aug 2014 - You've guessed it.... another Cardiac Arrest, zapped back by my defib.
Apr 2017 - Just when I thought things had settled down, yep another two Cardiac arrests in quick succession, zapped back by my defib. Sent home from hosptial on a hefty dose of evil heart medication.
It get more difficult each time to bounce back but somehow I do. And to end on a cheery note, being dead; there is no bright light, no tunnels, no out of body stuff, there is only blackness, it is f**king scary! But if you have to go, a cadiac arrest is the way to do it, quick and painless .... LOL.
Jun 2005 - Cardiac Arrests x3 aged 34 shocked back to life in the ambuance on the way to hospital, then twice more in A&E.
Jul 2013 - Cardiac Arrest, somehow my heart re-started by itself, Defib implanted.
Dec 2013 - Another cardiac arrest, zapped back by my defib.
Jun 2014 - Yet another Cardiac Arrest, zapped back by my defib.
Aug 2014 - You've guessed it.... another Cardiac Arrest, zapped back by my defib.
Apr 2017 - Just when I thought things had settled down, yep another two Cardiac arrests in quick succession, zapped back by my defib. Sent home from hosptial on a hefty dose of evil heart medication.
It get more difficult each time to bounce back but somehow I do. And to end on a cheery note, being dead; there is no bright light, no tunnels, no out of body stuff, there is only blackness, it is f**king scary! But if you have to go, a cadiac arrest is the way to do it, quick and painless .... LOL.
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