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Would you be alive?
- Thread starter Jazzy
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I very highly doubt it. I was born with a heart murmur which was potentially life threatening. I remember spending a few years constantly in hospital tied to various machines. I obviously cannot recall what happened at the moment of birth but one would presume I would be in a much worse position without the medical treatment available at that time.
So far I haven't had any life threatening conditions, and I haven't been in any life threatening accidents. I've only really broken my ankle, but that doesn't take modern medicine to fix. They set it and put it in a boot and I hobbled on crutches. The only thing that'd suck is I wouldn't have had pain medication. I think I'd possibly still be alive.
I'd be dead. When I was 15 years old, I banged the back of my leg closing the car door. Didn't think much of it at the time. I got a huge bruise and still didn't think much of it. A few weeks later, I had a pain in my chest when I would breathe in deeply. My dad took me for an x ray and they found a blood clot. Undiagnosed, the blood clot would have moved to my brain and that would have been curtains for me. I was put in the hospital and put on a blood thinner to dissolve the clot. They had a hard time regulating how much blood thinner I needed and I would bleed after brushing my teeth. To make a long story short, the medicine finally worked and I was good to go.
Probably not. I'm so dumb, i'd probably die of a plague.
I'd say most probably wouldn't be alive at their current age much less at all without modern medicine regardless if your life with modern medicine was uneventful as far as your health goes. The very fact your medical history is uneventful at this time may very well be due to modern medicine. I doubt anyone knows just how much they owe or don't owe to modern medicine at least in my opinion.
Jazzy said:
Then thank God for modern medicine because the world is a much better place with you in it.
I think that I would be, I have never had any life threatening incidents, but that us not to say that without some of the vaccines there that some of the old number one killers would not have got me.
Nope. My Appendix'd have burst when I was 10.
I'd be dead.
I'd be dead.
Probably not
I have migraines on set randomly, usually before that time of the month. They are terrible. I can't think straight or do anything. Sometimes they occur randomly and I can't drive. I have a prescription for it, but it only helps for a little and makes me feel worse.
I have migraines on set randomly, usually before that time of the month. They are terrible. I can't think straight or do anything. Sometimes they occur randomly and I can't drive. I have a prescription for it, but it only helps for a little and makes me feel worse.
