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Would you still be alive?

Gmol

Given the improvements in medicine and stuff(always stuff) in this century. Have you had any illness that would have killed you had you been living in the say the 14th century?

Reckon would have been dead at 12 when my appendix burst.

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stupidusername

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

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

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

marcsignal

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

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

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

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

KnifeWRENCH wrote: »

*shudders and crosses legs*

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

discus

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Eric Cartman

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

sam34

Biggins wrote: »

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

:pac:

(Sorry sam34, couldn't resist.)

ahem.

i'm female :pac:

Lux23

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

7Sins

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

sam34 wrote: »

ahem.

i'm female :pac:

Opps...:o

Carry on touching wood then!

(I hope ye both enjoy it)

Tonyandthewhale

7Sins wrote: »

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

Profound mis-interpretation of evolution there.

7Sins

Tonyandthewhale wrote: »

Profound mis-interpretation of evolution there.

Thanks

ladysarastro

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

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

sam34 wrote: »

chance would be a fine thing these days :mad:

*Warning Warning Warning*

Full inbox imminent.

:pac:

Storminateacup

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

mattjack

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

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 ...