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Post by thyme4change on Apr 25, 2013 13:39:52 GMT -5
Reading the faith healing thread and seeing that they have had 2 children get life-ending diseases, I'm wondering how many people have been "saved" by modern medicine. I know that a good number of us have been vaccinated - so we all could have gotten all sorts of things, but let's stick with things that have actually happened to you or your kids (or other family) that you were actually saved by modern medicine.
Both my kids are a-ok healthy, so no real stories there. I, however, had my epiglottitis close and get stuck (probably swollen) when I was a baby and I was in an oxygen tent for several days after I stopped breathing.
So, a world without modern medicine would be a world without Thyme. What about you? What was your close call?
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Post by The Captain on Apr 25, 2013 13:42:46 GMT -5
Major Asthma attack. Intubation, the whole nine yards.
I was in the hospital for 10 days and home for an additional two weeks after that.
Don't ever want to go through that again.
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Post by Phoenix84 on Apr 25, 2013 13:42:57 GMT -5
Yeah, I would likely be alive without modern medicine. I've not had any major illnesses or injuries that required modern medicine.
However, my vision would be substantially worse without the cateracts surgery than it is now. I would likely be blind and my life would be a lot different.
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Post by NomoreDramaQ1015 on Apr 25, 2013 13:44:50 GMT -5
I'd be fine.
My brother however would probably not be here. He had a very severe case of pyloic stenoris. That's when the valve from your stomach to your intestine won't open/close like it should so you barf everything back-up. Youngest case the pediatrician and his surgeon had ever seen. He was severely malnourished/dehydrated by the time he was diagnosed.
According to my matneral grandmother my grandfather had pyloric stenoris as a child, they fed him goat's milk till he outgrew it. I read about it and this is possible in MILD cases (meaning it works just not as well as it should).
My brother's pyloric valve wouldn't open at all, he would have been dead before he could have grown out of it.
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Post by The Walk of the Penguin Mich on Apr 25, 2013 13:48:29 GMT -5
Nope. The infection I dealt with last year has a 30% mortality rate WITH medical treatment. I am really glad I didn't know how critical I was at the time, but I should have figured it out by the number of people I had coming through my room.
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Post by GRG a/k/a goldenrulegirl on Apr 25, 2013 13:48:43 GMT -5
Both ODS and I were born prematurely. Neither of us would be here without modern medicine. Both ODS and YDS, as you all know, have life-threatening food allergies. Neither of them would be here without modern medicine. I'd also like to think that our current knowledge of skin cancer is keeping me alive. (Irish skin and the sun just don't mix. ![](http://images.proboards.com/new/tongue.png) ) Oh, and DYS(ister) had Stage 3 Melanoma discovered by chance when she got an Epidural for DN's birth. Modern medicine means she's still with us. Oh, again -- my DM had rheumatic fever as a child that severely weakened her heart. Two successive valve replacements kept her going like the Energizer bunny for many years. ![](http://images.proboards.com/new/smiley.png)
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Post by muttleynfelix on Apr 25, 2013 13:51:36 GMT -5
Yeah, I would likely be alive without modern medicine. I've not had any major illnesses or injuries that required modern medicine. However, my vision would be substantially without the cateracts surgery than it is now. I would likely be blind and my life would be a lot different. hey - none of us knows where we'd be without immunizations. Even those who did not get immunizations, are still protected to a great degree by the large % of the populace being immunized. ![](http://syonidv.hodginsmedia.com/vsmileys/yeahthat.gif) More than likely, I would be fine, but who knows.
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Post by raeoflyte on Apr 25, 2013 13:52:12 GMT -5
My mom probably would have died while pregnant with me because of high blood pressure.
I'm not defending the faith healers because I think they're nuts, but at least theyre consistent. My cousin is in her 3rd very dangerous pregnancy and docs want to tie her tubes when she has her c-section. But her Dh doesn't believe in any form of birth control because its against gods will. Which always makes me wonder why they go to the doctor at all.
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Post by spartan7886 on Apr 25, 2013 13:52:24 GMT -5
I would be here, but I would probably be a very different person, as my mother would have likely died giving birth to me.
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Post by thyme4change on Apr 25, 2013 13:54:26 GMT -5
The really interesting question for me is - is modern medicine killing off people who would have lived without it, and keep those alive who would have died without? Changing completely - the course of evolution. ![](http://images.proboards.com/new/tongue.png) I don't know - the only people I know who have died are either over 70, or died in car crashes. Well, I guess one lady had a brain cancer. Modern Medicine may have killed her - not exactly sure if it was the cancer or the treatment that got her first.
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Post by steph08 on Apr 25, 2013 13:57:13 GMT -5
I may or may not be here without modern medicine. I had my tonsils removed when I was 10, and after they were removed, it was discovered that they had a fungus that used to kill people. So if I didn't have them removed, I may have died. Who knows.
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Post by Sum Dum Gai on Apr 25, 2013 13:58:10 GMT -5
Nope. My appendix ruptured during the emergency surgery to remove it. If I'd been home praying I would have died in October of 2011 at the age of 29 from peritonitis. Probably one of the lamest ways to go ever.
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Post by justme on Apr 25, 2013 13:58:33 GMT -5
No. No close calls but two autoimmune diseases that end in death if left untreated. The treatment for one wasn't found until the 1950s and has pernicious (invariably fatal) in its name. The other earlier in the 1900s. So not sure how modern those are, but probably modern enough for faith healers. Though more recent more sophisticated tests aid in detection and much better treatment.
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Post by thyme4change on Apr 25, 2013 13:59:54 GMT -5
I know you have mentioned the epi-pen. How many times have you had to use it?
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Post by Peace Of Mind on Apr 25, 2013 14:02:21 GMT -5
I'm not sure but I do know modern medicine almost killed me. I had a severe reaction to antibiotics that put me in the hospital. I had a brain concussion when I was 8 but I was just monitored for 2 weeks in the hospital. I don't think they did anything to save me. I had Grave's disease and if I didn't get the thyroid removed I would have died younger than I will now after radioactive iodine and Synthroid. Sucks to be you all because you are stuck with me now for a bit longer. Bwahahahaha! ![](http://syonidv.hodginsmedia.com/vsmileys/bat.gif)
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Post by midjd on Apr 25, 2013 14:08:24 GMT -5
I'd probably be alive, but it's hard to tell. I had a thyroid nodule removed in my late teens - not cancerous, but could've become cancerous if left for another few years. So I might have been fine, or I might have died of thyroid cancer in my 30s. ![](http://syonidv.hodginsmedia.com/vsmileys/idunno.gif) DH has had several knee operations, but not for anything fatal. He'd probably still be here. Judging from the Walking Dead, yes. ![](http://images.proboards.com/new/tongue.png)
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Post by Abby Normal on Apr 25, 2013 14:39:37 GMT -5
I'd probably be alive, but DS would not. He was born with a heart problem that required surgery. He was also listed as "failure to thrive" because my boobs didn't work. I told DH I was glad we didn't live in a third world country.
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Post by Blonde Granny on Apr 25, 2013 14:42:48 GMT -5
Nope, I had stage 2 breast cancer at age 49. I had to different cancers in the same breast, one sitting on top of the other. That meant without the actual biopsy the more agressive cancer would not have been found.
Oh...and that was 19 years ago.
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Post by lynnerself on Apr 25, 2013 14:47:18 GMT -5
I'd probably be OK. Only with very crooked teeth. I think my small wrist fracture might have healed on it's on. My sister would not. She had major surgery at 14 hours old. My DH would be walking with a major limp from a deformed foot. My son might have a broken hip, not sure what would have happened without the surgery to fix the cyst in his femor.
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Post by swamp on Apr 25, 2013 14:49:04 GMT -5
I had a lazy eye surgically repaired when I was 2.
I have polycistic ovarian disease and an underactive thyroid.
Without medical intervention, I'd be a googly eyed hairy fat freak, but I'd be alive.
I had 2 emergency c-sections, so I could have died in childbirth.
However, since my medical problems cause infertility and I needed fertitlity treatments to conceive, and I would have been a googly eyed fat freak, I probably wouldn't have gotten pregnant, so the whole c section issue could be moot.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 25, 2013 14:50:10 GMT -5
No, because my Mom would have died a couple years before I was born. She had an emergency C-section with my brother.
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Post by imawino on Apr 25, 2013 14:50:48 GMT -5
I guess it depends how broadly you want to define modern medicine. In that story, I believe they said that over the counter medication could likely have saved one of those kids. Is it possible that any of us (especially as infants) could have died if our parents hadn't administered something to bring down a fever or stop vomiting or something? Probably. Same thing with something as simple as taking an antibiotic. It doesn't really have to be dramatic to be life-saving.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 25, 2013 14:51:52 GMT -5
I had a lazy eye surgically repaired when I was 2. Lucky. It wasn't available yet when I was a kid, so I'm essentially blind in one eye. ![](http://images.proboards.com/new/sad.png)
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Post by sheilaincali on Apr 25, 2013 15:47:09 GMT -5
Nope. I would have died when I was pregnant with DS. I'm A - and he is A +. I had to have the two shots to keep my body from rejecting the pregnancy. Then when he was born I had to have a C-section after 36 hours of labor because his head was too large.
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Post by NomoreDramaQ1015 on Apr 25, 2013 15:59:27 GMT -5
I would have died when I was pregnant with DS. I'm A - and he is A +. I had to have the two shots to keep my body from rejecting the pregnancy
I'm RH negative as well. I got a shot in the butt around week 37. My mom had to have the shot too.
My dad is an only child because my grandmother is RH negative. They didn't have the shot when my dad was born. The risks increase with every pregnancy. They didn't chance it.
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Post by movingforward on Apr 25, 2013 16:08:00 GMT -5
About 6 yrs ago I contracted a staff infection (flesh eating bacteria). I actually thought I had been bitten by a poisonous spider and luckily went to the doctor immediately. He told me it was good I came in so soon because most people don't and end up in the hospital and if not treated in a timely manner death is a certainty. The crazy thing is that my co-worker's husband got the same thing about a year later and he went to the doctor and was told it was just a bug bite and to take benadryl ![](http://syonidv.hodginsmedia.com/vsmileys/yikes.png) . Three days later he was in the hospital hanging on by a thread. The infection had gotten into his blood stream and it was very touch and go for a while. I was pretty lucky to have a doctor that knew what the hell he was talking about. Still not sure where I picked this crazy infection up from but the doctor thought it was probably the locker room at the gym. Apparently is very prevalent in those type of places. ETA: This was easily cleared up with antibiotics. I would venture to say that many people would probably not be here without modern medicine, unless you're lonewolf that is ![](http://images.proboards.com/new/tongue.png)
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Post by kittensaver on Apr 25, 2013 16:08:34 GMT -5
I'd be here, but permanently disabled. I broke both my tibia and fibula in multiple places in a hiking accident two years ago, so I functionally destroyed my lower leg. Without modern medicine/surgical reconstruction, I probably wouldn't be able to stand on it, let alone walk.
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Post by Sum Dum Gai on Apr 25, 2013 16:10:45 GMT -5
Oh, and I fractured the C3 vertebra in my neck. Doc said I was a hairs width from being paralyzed from the neck down. Without the X-ray to find it we wouldn't have known. I got stuck with a neck brace for months. However, I had three younger brothers and broke my neck playing in the front yard in the first place so obviously we roughhoused quite a bit. If I hadn't known to take it easy and wear my brace I most likely would have exacerbated the neck injury and spent from 12 to 29 in a motorized wheelchair only being able to control my head, before I died of a ruptured appendix at 29. Sweet.
Thank god my mom isn't a religious nut.
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Post by Pants on Apr 25, 2013 16:19:07 GMT -5
Nope. My dad had malignant melanoma at age 26 - two years before I was born. They only caught it as a fluke while he was at the student health center for something else. The dr's who treated it only gave him a 20% chance of survival - WITH surgery and radiation.
I haven't had anything too terrible. Strong bones, some back problems but pretty healthy in general.
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Post by Miss Tequila on Apr 25, 2013 16:24:20 GMT -5
Hard to say...I had melanoma at age 35 but I'm not sure if I would be dead by now or not. The only other issue I had was my tonsils removed when I was 5 but back then they removed everyone's tonsils.
My dd had to have her kidney removed as it was filled with cysts. Long term the odds were high it would have turned cancerous. So her life would have been shortened most likely.
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