Would you still be alive?

stupidusername · 19-07-2011 05:45PM

Wibbs wrote: »

Better than penis damage if one had to chose. Dribbling moron or huge mickey? I'll take the latter please Carol. Indeed that's just what I did.

awh and I was so impressed earlier with your wisdom... you've disappointed me wibbsy.

Micky Dolenz wrote: »

I had to tell people I had narcolepsy :P

ooh that'd be great! you could take a snooze whenever you feel like it. nice.

whatdoicare · 19-07-2011 05:56PM

Mam nearly died having my older sister, so I wouldn't have even been born.
If by some miracle I had been, I would have died at four of pneumonia or else at seven of complications from a broken leg. Ah well, good thing I was born now and not then!

discus · 19-07-2011 06:00PM

Well, I'm not some Internet mong with error riddled DNA, so no, modern medicine has not affected me at all!

marcsignal · 19-07-2011 06:08PM

when I was in primary school in the 70s (about 6yrs old) my older brother caught Galndular Fever. The doctor came to the house and examined all of us (my 5 brothers and 2 sisters) He seemed to believe I had caught this virus as well, so I, as well as my bro, were confined to our beds and kept out of school for 8 weeks. We caught it from drinking un-pasturised milk on a farm.

After 8 weeks they did what was called the "Paul Brunnel" test, and it was discovered I never had the virus at all.

There is no treatment for Glandular Fever, except rest, pain killers, and lots of fluids.
Thank christ it wasn't the 14th Century, where the treatment was probably snake oil and leeches, LOTS of leeches :eek:

KnifeWRENCH · 19-07-2011 06:10PM

I'm not sure how testicular torsion was dealt with back then; I probably would have been castrated or something! :eek: Or else just left untreated and in severe pain. So I'd probably have ended up killing myself rather than live with either of those scenarios.

Biggins · 19-07-2011 06:12PM

KnifeWRENCH wrote: »

I'm not sure how testicular torsion was dealt with back then; I probably would have been castrated or something! :eek: Or else just left untreated and in severe pain. So I'd probably have ended up killing myself rather than live with either of those scenarios.

Some weird applicance that cuts off bits might have been whipped out.
Chop, chop, snip, slash ...and you'd be singing like an choirboy for the rest of your life! :pac:

KnifeWRENCH · 19-07-2011 06:15PM

Biggins wrote: »

Some weird applicance that cuts off bits might have been whipped out.
Chop, chop, snip, slash ...and you'd be singing like an choirboy for the rest of your life! :pac:

*shudders and crosses legs*

Superbus · 19-07-2011 06:18PM

KnifeWRENCH wrote: »

*shudders and crosses legs*

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wv-S3uoeTXg

discus · 19-07-2011 06:20PM

KnifeWRENCH wrote: »

I'm not sure how testicular torsion was dealt with back then; I probably would have been castrated or something! :eek: Or else just left untreated and in severe pain. So I'd probably have ended up killing myself rather than live with either of those scenarios.

Oh **** yeah, I had that. Whoops, modern medicine saved me bollox!

Biggins · 19-07-2011 06:25PM

Tiny Explosions wrote: »

So Osteomyelitis affects your bran?

Bran?

Was a teenager at the time. Spent six month on the fifth floor of the Lourdes Hospital Drogheda under a specialist doctor called Sheehan.
From there when the infection recurred a month soon after, spent another three months in place called The Cottage Hospital (Scarlet street, Drogheda).
In total a just a year out of my young life spend staring at four walls. I near went mad with boredom and been trapped indoors. A same year spent also on crutches. It was absolutely no fun.

Tiny Explosions · 19-07-2011 06:27PM

Biggins wrote: »

Bran?

Was a teenager at the time. Spent six month on the fifth floor of the Lourdes Hospital Drogheda under a specialist doctor called Sheehan.
From there when the infection recurred a month soon after, spent another three months in place called The Cottage Hospital (Scarlet street, Drogheda).
In total a just a year out of my young life spend staring at four walls. I near went mad with boredom and been trapped indoors. A same year spent also on crutches. It was absolutely no fun.

Sheehan?

So that's what happened to ya!:p

Logical Fallacy · 19-07-2011 06:27PM

Wolfe Tone wrote: »

No I would be grand, never had any major illness.

Maybe not, given how different hygiene and food practices were you could easily have died from something you'd never get now.

Or contract TB of Polio or something.

Biggins · 19-07-2011 06:29PM

Tiny Explosions wrote: »

Sheehan?

So that's what happened to ya!:p

That was "Shine!"

http://www.sundayworld.com/columnists/index.php?aid=7491
...Shocking that the pervert still gets €90,000 HSE pension - but thats a whole other topic.

sam34 · 19-07-2011 06:47PM

i was born premature, doubt i would have survived without a SCBU.

havent had anything serious since then, just the usual coughs/colds etc. *touches wood*

Biggins · 19-07-2011 06:48PM

sam34 wrote: »

i was born premature, doubt i would have survived without a SCBU.

havent had anything serious since then, just the usual coughs/colds etc. *touches wood*

HE GOT WOOD - HE GOT WOOD!
GAWD BLESS VIAGRA!

:pac:

(Sorry sam34, couldn't resist.)

BrokenArrows · 19-07-2011 06:59PM

I think so. Never had any major issues with my health. Only ever had 2 courses of antibiotics and I'd say I could have done without them.

However I probably would have been killed by many of the other things in the 14th century.

cgordonfreeman · 19-07-2011 07:00PM

9 weeks premature and testicular cancer when I was 20. I'd definitely be dead!

Eric Cartman · 19-07-2011 07:01PM

i would have lived just fine medically but probably would have been branded a wizard or somethign and hung

sam34 · 19-07-2011 07:02PM

Biggins wrote: »

HE GOT WOOD - HE GOT WOOD!
GAWD BLESS VIAGRA!

:pac:

(Sorry sam34, couldn't resist.)

ahem.

i'm female :pac:

Lux23 · 19-07-2011 07:03PM

I had a few illnesses that killed children years ago but can't be sure that I would have died.

7Sins · 19-07-2011 07:06PM

They say that for humans, evolution has stopped thanks to modern medicine. Basically medicine is keeping the weaker people alive that nature otherwise would've killed off which it does so it can keep the best bits and make a species stronger...

So, anyone that should be dead....you're holding up evolution. :mad:

Biggins · 19-07-2011 07:15PM

sam34 wrote: »

ahem.

i'm female :pac:

Opps...:o

Carry on touching wood then!

(I hope ye both enjoy it)

Tonyandthewhale · 19-07-2011 07:22PM

7Sins wrote: »

So, anyone that should be dead....you're holding up evolution. :mad:

Profound mis-interpretation of evolution there.

7Sins · 19-07-2011 07:25PM

Tonyandthewhale wrote: »

Profound mis-interpretation of evolution there.

Thanks

ladysarastro · 19-07-2011 07:25PM

I would of died at 2 months old from having my skin peeling off.... and then my heart stopping twice while I spent 3 months in hospital. But thinking of it i would of been dead the first time it stopped!!!

sam34 · 19-07-2011 07:29PM

Biggins wrote: »

Opps...:o

Carry on touching wood then!
(I hope ye both enjoy it)

chance would be a fine thing these days :mad:

Micky Dolenz · 19-07-2011 07:31PM

sam34 wrote: »

chance would be a fine thing these days :mad:

*Warning Warning Warning*

Full inbox imminent.

:pac:

Storminateacup · 19-07-2011 07:31PM

I'm diabetic, so yeah, I mite be dead, back in the day.

mattjack · 19-07-2011 07:35PM

I was almost shot a few years ago...in the 14th century the bloke mighta been a better shot with his bow and arrow..

bnt · 19-07-2011 07:44PM

My appendix nearly detonated when I was 12, so that would have been that. Apart from that, I might actually have been healthier, spending more time outdoors, working in the fields alongside the other peasants ...

Would you still be alive?

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