perhaps
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Post by perhaps on Apr 26, 2013 17:45:27 GMT -5
Nope....would not be here today. In high school I had a sports physical. Dr. heard a strange noise in my heart. Turns out I had a whole the size of a quarter in my heart. A few days later I was having open heart surgery. Without modern meds I would be one of those "collapsed on the court" without explanation deaths.
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thyme4change
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Post by thyme4change on Apr 27, 2013 8:27:47 GMT -5
I have a living will. No vegetative state for me!!! I would love to see someone put in a clause that if you end up an angry, unhappy pshyco after a brain injury that some should take you out and you suffer a terrible "hunting accident." I mean, Greg LeMond's BIL thought he was a turkey - it could happen to anyone.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 27, 2013 20:13:16 GMT -5
I guess I could have died from appendicitis. Most of us don't know that there are two types of appendicitis---chronic and acute. The year before I had an attack, I went to the ER, and they pumped me full of antibiotics thinking it was a kidney infection. It reduced the infection.
A year later I had the same type of attack, thought it was a kidney infection, and didn't go to the ER. Instead, I crawled (literally . . . I couldn't walk) into my primary care physician's office after dropping my kids off at school. My then-DH was out of town, and I had slept in a recliner all night. I was crying when I got to the doctor, and they took me in immediately.
Anyway, the appendix had ruptured, and I spent a week in the hospital. What I remember most is how mad my eight-year-old son got. He thought I was going to die, and he was really angry about it. It makes me smile now, but he really was pissed off that I was so sick. He wasn't mad at me necessarily, just angry in general.
So I guess modern medicine saved my life. It must have been really bad to have spent that long in the hospital.
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weltschmerz
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Post by weltschmerz on Apr 28, 2013 4:34:58 GMT -5
I'd be dead several times over.
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Post by michelyn8 on Apr 29, 2013 8:29:44 GMT -5
Progressed nothing, we've been there hundreds of years. Ever go to really old cemeteries? Every other headstone is a child. Surviving to adulthood was far from a given before modern medicine. Hell giving birth in the first place used to be no joke. Quite a few ladies went out that way. As I've mentioned before, one of my hobbies is climbing my family tree. The death ages are a hodgepodge ranging from 2 years to 92. My father's two oldest brothers (first & third of my grandparents' 11 children) both died at age 2 from diarhea. Not surprising though is that those that lived to "old age" were mostly men. The women mostly died before reaching 40 but a few made it into their 60's. I may or may not have made it this long without modern medicine. I contracted measles around age 1. My cousin who was about 10 at the time died from them and my mother things that the virus (if that's what causes them) may have been lingering in the house when she took me with her to visit after the funeral. I ran a very high fever that the nurse brought down to fast causing me to go into convulsions and my father to nearly commit murder. ![](http://images.proboards.com/new/tongue.png) But I survived to get into plenty of mischief as a child like following my brother up the road at age 2 causing my family to panic until they found me sitting on a drainage grate singing and playing at the top of our road. Of course, I also could have survived the measles with "old fashioned" medicine since it was a known disease and there are/were folk treatments for it. When I was pregnant with DS, I developed toxemia in my last month which causes the docs to insist on inducing. After 10 hours of labor, DS went into fetal distress and I was given a C-Section. I'm sure in older times I may have been able to carry him to term but also could have stroked before or once labor began so it would have been a hit or miss situation.
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Post by genericname on Apr 29, 2013 11:40:46 GMT -5
I wouldn't be here, and neither would my son. I would have died from a ruptured appendix a couple of years before he was conceived.
If that hadn't killed me, I would have diedin childbirth and he would have too. My pelvic opening is not the shape it need to be to push a kid's head through. It's the round peg/square hole problem. No c-section, no baby or mom.
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wvugurl26
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Post by wvugurl26 on Apr 29, 2013 11:45:22 GMT -5
I'd probably be dead. My mom never dilated after going into labor. I was an emergency c-section 24 hours later. I suppose some of my allergies and breathing issues might have done me in as well.
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thyme4change
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Post by thyme4change on Apr 29, 2013 12:20:30 GMT -5
You have a square hole?
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Anne_in_VA
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Post by Anne_in_VA on Apr 29, 2013 16:40:50 GMT -5
Yup, I'd have died several times over. Had endometriosis and gallbladder issues in my late 20's, some really bad ear infections throughout my life and at least one of the infections ruptured one of my eardrums. Antiobiotics saved my life on a couple of occasions. Antidepressants and some really great therapists kept me from killing myself a few years ago. I've struggled with depression most of my life.
ETA - forgot about the rusty nail I stepped on when I was about 10. Without the quick intervention of my uncle who had medical training during the Korean War and a trip to the doctor's for some antibiotics, I'd surely be dead.
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