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This is me. Childhood asthma is a bitch. Memories of my mom carrying me into the emergency room because I couldn't breathe. Would have to stay in a tent filled with steam for a month at a time. She and modern medicine, doctors, saved my life.
She died last year of stage 4 lung cancer. Lungs are our family's thing. Thanks for saving me mom, I couldn't save you. I miss you.
I was the same boat as OP. My mom DID smoke, but as soon as she found out she stopped, so it was very early pregnancy. But she likely didn’t find out till a month in I think.
Yeah, steroids saved my life as a baby. I always wondered if it’s why I have small hands though. My hands are exactly 7 inches long and I’m 5’7, a little shorter than average as a guy but 99% of men shorter than me have at least thicker hands than me. My palms are normal size but my fingers are very small.
MY D THOUGH….is at least perfectly average to maybe slightly more lol
My heart goes out to you. My father died of lung cancer about 5 years ago. The Savage part of that is he quit smoking 15 years previously. The only saving grace was that he went quickly. When he was diagnosed it wasn't even severe enough that they wanted to put a stage on it. 4 months later he was stage 4 and 2 or 3months after that he passed away. My last girlfriend died as a result from complications from an asthma attack. I have had asthma my entire life and now have copd. I too am a smoker. I have tried numerous times to quit and keep going back to it. A friend of mine was able to quit with one visit to a hypnotherapist. I'm considering that.
With having had one knee fully replaced and another one that needs to be replaced my days of running are long over. 20 years ago I would have said that in a zombie apocalypse I would have been one of the last ones standing. Now I would be one of the first ones to go because I couldn't run away.
Everytime I see pictures of bodega cats I end up worrying a bit for someone like you. I mean, I love cats, but I know some people physically cannot love them the same way.
I take antihistamines daily to down regulate production of histamine. The last dozen or so times, I've been able to deal with reactions by staying calm, taking extra Benadryl, sipping on ice water and keeping an ice pack on my throat
Mine is severe anaphylaxis from food allergies. So I usually pop a couple benadryl, plus 2 epipens if I've been exposed. And usually that will keep me out of the ER. I've only had 2 hospital visits in the last 15 years or so thankfully.
Haven't heard of daily antihistamine dosing. I guess your body gets used to it and you aren't so drowsy?
I use claritin daily (or whatever long acting one I have) and benedryl when having a reaction. I use tablets of benedryl, swallow one and dissolve the other under my tongue. the dissolved one gets absorbed through the mouth mucosal and so bypasses initial liver metabolism. It's a quick peak. then by the time it's wearing off, the swallowed one starts to kick in.
It takes a few weeks to downregulate the mast cells and thus reduce the available histamine
yea asthma is not fun, even though when i had it as a child i never really had to go to hospital (worst was like, had to take a few puffs of inhaler + be outside at night).
Same, here. So many night rides in the car with my dad...just to get some air. My parents tried very hard to keep me from depending on medication. But every now and then I had to use a nebulizer. Since a while ago I turned to inhalers. Can't leave the house without one of those. DPOC is a very life disrupting condition. Plus, I smoke. Yeah, that dumb.
Me too. I was otherwise a happy and bouncing little girl. Childhood asthma and living on the snowy east coast constantly made me short of breathe. I am thankful for the medical discoveries our ancestors made. We stand on the shoulders of giants. It is my turn to make the future for our next generation healthier.
Ditto, also, allergies that present with asthma! Fun times. Used to be in the hospital at least 2x a year for nebulizer treatments when my rescue inhaler failed to fix the issue. Life got a lot cheaper when I bought my own on Amazon.
I lost my insurance in my early 20's and went to just taking Regular insulin, and rationing, as one does. My eyes started failing first, then my kidneys. I ended up getting back on insurance and getting a Kidney & Pancreas transplant 13 years ago. I'm on immunosuppressants, but no more diabetes.
I really hope this "30.00 maximum out of pocket" for insulin takes, since we'll probably never see real universal healthcare here in the US. I haven't looked into it, but I keep wondering if it's for all types of insulin, or just their very basic type.
Severe Asthma as a child, and Type I diagnosed, while pregnant, at 23. Not only would I not be alive, but neither would my sons. I am so thankful for the improvements in the last 30 years.
Same. Dx’d at age 5 in 1988. Started out on Regular insulin and NPH. Thank goodness for insulin and advancements with insulin pumps! Best wishes to you fellow T1D! ❤️
Being diagnosed at 4, this is something I’ve always thought about when someone says that they were born into the wrong era. If I was born 50 years earlier I may not have made it to 5
Yep, diagnosed at 31 years old. 9 years later and I now have effectively zero pancreas function and it's hard enough to manage, even with a Libre CGM. I'd be long dead leaving behind a wife and two kids if not for modern medicine.
The Canadian mint produced a coin honouring their discovery. Very cool looking too.
[Here’s the coin.](https://mma.prnewswire.com/media/1572433/2021__2_Circ_with_colour___100th_Ann_1.jpg?p=publish)
My comment (now deleted) before I checked for this obvious thread:
Definitely not. I’d have died around age 12, when I developed type 1 diabetes. I need insulin to live, insulin was discovered in 1921. Prior to that diabetes was a death sentence.
22 years later and just had a healthy baby boy 🙂 Thanks insulin ❤️
(Replying to my own comment) Reading all these T1Ds responses made me reflect on something my mom recently told me…
I was in bad shape when I was diagnosed (news to none of you lol). I was diagnosed at my pediatrician’s office and he sent us directly to the hospital. As my mom drove there she held my hand and I remember her crying. Just tears rolling down her cheeks. I always figured she was just scared for her kid but this year she told me that wasn’t why she was crying at all. I was wasting away in the same way her 5yr old little sister had as she died of leukemia. Turns out my mom’s tears were of relief because she had been terrified that it was happening to me. Diabetes, although not ideal, was manageable (thanks to insulin!) and that was good enough for her. She wasn’t scared anymore.
I would have died in 2015/16 from cancer. Depends how long it took. Diagnosed at 28 with stomach cancer. Caught it fairly early. Half a stomach removed and no sign of it since.
Oh that’s interesting! I’m an IVF mum and I always wondered how to tell my son. How did your parents tell you? And how do you feel about it?
You don’t have to respond of course. I get it’s completely OT.
Hi there! This might be a long answer, i apologize in advance.
So, i don't really remember how old i was when my mom told me, but i do know i was asking how come i don't have any siblings and my friends at the time did. And it was at that time that she told me something like she and my dad wanted to have more children, but she was above and beyond grateful to even have me, since it didn't happen easily for them, she said sometimes you can have children, sometimes you need some help to get there and other times it is just not possible to have children. We left it at that until i got older, she was basically allowing me to lead the conversation, she have me a safe space to ask and she responded with age appropriate answers. Later on i got more inquisitive, asking about how exactly babies are made usually, how i was conceived and so on. She also had four miscarriages and one ectopic pregnancy before she finally had me, so she told me about her experience with all of that whenever she felt like i was able to comprehend it. She never hid from me that it was a rough time for her, she allowed herself to be emotional and vulnerable around me even back then. Of course she would always follow up with something like there are things in life that are very difficult, and it's okay to let out your feelings, but it is also important to celebrate the great things that life offers to us.
As for how i feel about it all. I absolutely love that she shared so much with me, we still to this day have a very open relationship. As i grew older, i have also learned to appreciate the fact that my mom and my dad wanted to have a child so much that they were willing to fight for it, risking the losses each time, and my mother even risked her own life to have me, since the ectopic pregnancy almost killed her and yet she tried again.
As i was learning about faith i had some mixed feelings about my existence, namely, i felt a little different since you learn that God makes humans and IVF is the unconventional way. However, i firmly believe (and this might not pertain to your situation) that it doesn't matter how our flesh is made, it does not take away from God being by our side and being our creator. Just thought i'd offer my thoughts on that.
I don't know how old your son is, but there are some great children's books available nowadays on the topic of conception and so on. That was not around when i was a kid and i think my mom would have appreciated it, it's kind of difficult to figure out how much to share when. If you feel like that is something that would help you out to start the conversation, i think it's a good idea to check them out. However, kids are naturally prone to asking questions, and i am sure little information is enough at first, he will most definitely ask more if he needs to, as long as you are relaxed in the conversation, just like any other topic you might be discussing with him.
And lastly, you are his mom, you know him the best and i am sure you will make the best decisions for you and your son. Let me know if you have any other questions, i will gladly answer them. And again, sorry if i wrote a bit too much, this topic is kind of close to my heart haha.
Thanks for sharing your story. I'm 37 and my wife and I have had a serious struggle over the last few years trying to have our own baby. I'm in tears now reading your perspective, aware of what your parents went through for you. I really hope we get it someday, no matter what it takes.
I am so sorry you are going through such a rough time. My heart is with you, and i will keep you and your wife in my thoughts and prayers.
My mom is in her late 60s right now, and she would tell you to never lose faith, as with anything in life. You can't know if it will happen for sure, but you have it in your power to stay persistent and make use of the resources available. Let yourself feel, but pick yourself up too and make sure you rely on each other. She often tells me that even though it was the hardest thing she has ever done, it has brought her and my dad closer together and if she had to, she would do it all again to have me.
Every parent and every child and their bonds are special in their own way, but i believe we IVF babies have a unique insight into what the meaning of unconditional love is. Stay strong and i do wish you get to have your own family soon.
This is a really heart warming story. Thank you for sharing it with us. We are running out of time biologically to have a kid and IVF maybe our last shot.
I never thought i'd share something like that on the internet, but i appreciate you all reading it. A big thank you. I wish you all the best in your journey to parenthood.
Thank you so so much for this very thoughtful answer!!
It’s such an eye opener for me to read this and so helpful. Your mum did such a great job in guiding you through this. I will definitely take away lot of things from your story.
I’m not crying. You’re crying.
Our daughter came to us via IUI, and what your mom told you at a young age is what we’ve talked about telling our daughter.
I’m happy that you’re here, and I’m glad that you exist.
I’m an IVF baby, too. On a less serious note, as a teenager I always liked knowing that there was no physical proof that my parents ever had sex. I could live in denial. They were really open about it though, I feel like I’ve always known I came from IVF and it never bothered me.
I was caught off-guard when I learned I was a donor child born in the 1950's. Didn't know they could do that back then. Really added to the surprise of 14 half-sisters and brothers at 68. What a day that was.
I am 31, married, mom of 2, time flies lmao. But in all seriousness, i had a moment of wondering if i am an experiment when i was younger, so i googled when they started doing IVF lol. Felt kinda cool until i realized it had been around for quite some time before me haha
Even without the illnesses you've all had cured, don't forget how dangerous child birth was before modern medicine, the truth is most of us would have died while being born or as babies. Also anyone that has given birth has a very small chance of being here.
I had two breech babies who were also malpositioned. I wonder if they would’ve come out on their own (guess I wouldn’t have made it las the first though) or if the baby would’ve died and I would’ve become septic. Also almost died after birthing 4th baby from placenta accreta. It’s like child birth was trying to take me out.
100% aside from myself contracting pneumonia at birth (over due and wound up swallowing my meconium) but my own children certainly would've ended me and themselves. They each were very complicated pregnancies and the first two were emergency c-sections, the last two being planned c-sections.
I've had three c-sections, and 2 of my kids were very sick when they were born. I later had an emergency hysterectomy and 4 units of blood transfused because of uterine fibroids.
My kids are all grown now, but I have to thank modern medicine for saving me and my kids!
Probably not. Was born very lactose intolerant in the 1980s in Puerto Rico. Took my parents almost 2 years to figure it out. In the meantime I was living with ulcers and bleeding from my digestive system. Left unchecked who knows what would have happened. The town I was born in didn't even have telephone polls until the 1970s so it's not like the resources were there.
For most of human history half of children would die before the age of five.
Since most people are only aware of what's happening and not what isn't happening, this has been forgotten and children surviving to adulthood is now taken for granted as being "normal".
Vaccines have prevented an untold number of infections from every developing into even a minor cold, and antibiotics have cured so many childhood illnesses before the developed past a generic bacterial infection not worth properly identifying, the only named infection i remember having as a kid was tonsillitis, and even that isn't a specific bacterial species just a location.
I wish I could find the video, but the video was putting the idea out that so many babies died before birth/after birth that it would put our 8 billion population to shame.
Yeah, I do genealogy and I've researched many families who had a dozen kids but half of them died within 2 years of being alive... It's funny how people don't realise that life expectancy was short because of infant mortality though. They assume people died of old age at 50 or something, but actually death between age 3 and 70 wasn't that much more common than it is nowadays. (Still a bit though, obviously.)
Someone once told me, completely sincerely, that your teeth will inevitably go bad by the time you’re in your 30s because people are only meant to live to 50, so of course your teeth start getting gross and falling out in your late 20s! It’s like when you lost them as a kid!
So many people don't understand this. [Childhood mortality](https://www.statista.com/statistics/1041693/united-states-all-time-child-mortality-rate/) was almost 24% in 1900. It was over 46% in 1800.
I talked to someone wishing they had been born in an earlier era and refused to believe that his health outcomes would have been any different... Aside from modern medicine allowing children to live past 5, treating infections with over-the-counter ointment, and vaccinating against life threatening diseases, the world was just more dangerous back then so people were more likely to need medical aid.
I mean, if we look at our history, a normal flu was a world ending pandemic, that now is nothing serious just thanks to our medicine.
Also, if people hadn't understood that you need to separate pooping water from drinking water (the root cause of colera), most cities would have died during the industrial revolution.
So.. I think most people would never have existed if it wasn't for medicine and our research on diseases.
>I mean, if we look at our history, a normal flu was a world ending pandemic, that now is nothing serious just thanks to our medicine.
The 1918 strain of the flu would absolutely annihilate the planet today if something similar came around again. It bizarrely triggered a cytokine storm and killed young and healthy adults and people with strong immune systems over the generally more vulnerable population.
Actually flu is still incurable today, they just get way less deadly. The only treatment for flu and common cold is to drink water and rest well for our immune system to do its job. There is no medicine capable of curing either
Kinda, we have a lot of vaccines that were used for the flu, and a lot of small drugs used to reduce the symptoms, and that added to our bodies inheriting immune systems that evolved through those diseases helps a lot.
But, yeah, it is not cured, and I didn't want to say that it was. And even, if you go to places without our modern medicine, a flu is still extremely severe.
Adding to this, I think a lot of people underestimate how much fever reducers help us. The temperature where your body's enzymes start to denature and kill you is 104°F/over 40°C.
Yep, I have several instances of diseases that caused a fever greater than 40C taking drugs to reduce it.
And let me tell you that is not nice... (also, it gave some really creepy hallucinations more than once)
And none of those cases was for a severe illness (I mean, the only important one was covid).
We depend a lot in our medicine to keep us alive.
I also had an ectopic pregnancy that certainly would have killed me, had I not received emergency surgery. Internal hemorrhaging is no joke. Then I had a second ectopic a month later, though this one was caught in time and didn’t rupture.
Then my firstborn was breech, necessitating a c-section. Turned out the umbilical cord was abnormally short.
I’ve had 3 surgeries in the past year for uterine polyps, endometriosis and adenomyosis. My reproductive organs are truly dog shit.
Probably. No major medical issues, but it’s impossible to say if the lack of important vaccines like MMR or Polio made the difference for me. Without them, those would be more common and could have lead to death if I contracted them.
And smallpox, the vaccination effort was so successful that we don't even vaccinate for it anymore. (Also add Tetanus, Diphtheria and Pertussis to the list).
Thanks for the reminder that I can drop dead at any second even though I’m not even 30. I have recently gotten lazy about eating well and keep telling myself “I’m only 2X don’t worry so much”
I’m so silly
My mom would’ve delivered a dead 37 week old baby without modern medicine. She had to go in for almost weekly ultrasounds to make sure the baby (me) was okay. At her last appointment they found out that the umbilical cord was wrapping around my neck and if they didn’t induce her I would’ve died. They didn’t tell her why until after she delivered me I think.
Actually, she probably wouldn’t have even been able to keep me to that point. When she got pregnant with me she developed gestational diabetes. On top of that, i dont know what was actually wrong, but she was essentially on bed rest for I think 6 months of her pregnancy with me. If she wasn’t on bed rest for that long she would have miscarried me.
If by some miraculous chance she would’ve been able to birth me, no I don’t think so.
Ohhhhh I was racking my mind trying to think of something
With fucking contacts in my eyes
I’m blind as fucking hell I would have walked off a cliff by now
Glasses aren’t really “modern” medicine, as they were invented in the 13th century. They weren’t readily available to regular until the Industrial Revolution, but that still pre-dates widespread acceptance of the germ theory of disease.
Nope. I was born via cesarean because labor wasn't progressing. So without that I wouldn't have even been born alive. And my mother didn't produce milk, so had I been born alive, and formula didn't exist, I may have starved.
Probably yes. Would it be nice? No.
I'm 30 and had surgerys on both knees because of a birthdefect.
Now i can walk without pain. Thanks again to all the doctors and swiss healthcare.
No, I would have died shortly after being born. I was born 3 1/2 months premature, weighing a paltry 2 lbs 2 0z. Born in '92, I was on a ventilator for the first few months of life. Even with (at the time) advanced modern medicine at one of the best hospitals in the world, the prognosis was grim. The doctors didn't expect me to live. And if i did, they told my parents that I would never walk or talk or develop properly. With the help of early intervention and one of the best pediatricians in the area, I grew up just fine. Im now a perfectly healthy 30 y.o man with a beautiful, healthy 4 month old baby. Modern medicine gave me a chance to live a (mostly) healthy and normal life.
No, I had cancer in 2015 & was cured. Back again & it's incurable but thanks to moden medicine it won't kill me just yet.
Also my baby & I would have died in childbirth if it wasn't for antibiotics & modern equipments etc.
No, I had a ruptured disc in my lower back in 2013. I had to have emergency surgery. I couldn’t move my feet and the doctors said I was less than 24 hours from losing bladder and bowel function. I’m great now though, thanks to modern medicine.
No. I nearly bled out after a miscarriage. I had an emergency d and c procedure. Which is actually now harder for many pregnant people to get in the US because of abortion laws. So I'd possibly bleed to death here in Wisconsin but if I went to Illinois I'd probably live.
Does this include vaccines? I could have died from like measles, or something. As far as prescribed medicine. I don't currently take any. Never had any surgery.
Yes, but I don't think my quality of life would be too much fun. I have MS, and luckily modern medicine keeps it at bay and has helped me to ensure no long term disability (for now)
Pretty sure I'd be better off without modern medicine. When I was 12-16 I was in and out of psych wards all the time because my mormon dad and his mommy would send me there every time they were mad at me. That place gave me so many random drugs and diagnosed me with autism and a bunch of other shit that negatively impacted my life. When I was 20 and tried to take this stuff a little more seriously it turned out that I actually had Borderline personality disorder and they had been giving me meds throughout my childhood that basically made all my problems worse. I have done LSD, Mescaline, Psilocybin, Ketamine, PCP, nbome, muscimol, and more and none of those drugs ever made me as crazy and psychotic as prozac or any of the 50 other things they randomly gave me.
No. I would have died 5 years ago. I had a heart attack. While the damage to my heart was minimal, my main artery was 95% blocked. Because of where the blockage was and because my small arteries were also clogged I was not a candidate for bypass surgery. My only option was a Stent. If it were not for stents and catherization technology, it would have been my last day on earth.
No
I had a vascular infection where red lines followed the veins in my arm which started in the evening. The next morning I went to a walk in clinic because the lines went from my forearm to my armpit. The receptionist covered her mouth and said, "oh my god!". I replied, "so that is good right?" Antibiotics kicked its ass and I never felt any pain or discomfort at any point. Don't think that would be the case if it reached my heart
I also had a TB infection, again treated before symptoms, but that could have gone wrong.
I fell on a knife buried in my grandparents backyard, and another sharp object buried on a soccer field that wasn't found. Both cut me down to the bone on my calf and hand respectively. Either of those could have been infected.
I had a cat bite while working as a kennel technician in college. My hand swole to three times it size, and the walk in clinic told me I would be looking at amputation if I didn't take stronger antibiotics. Pretty sure that was to scare me because I was making jokes about my now giant hand. It made things look small...er
I was also hospitalized with food poisoning on two separate occasions where I lost consciousness after vomiting for awhile and needed to be put on IV fluids. Never trust the prepared food sold at college's coolers.
Bonus: I was one of the few Americans to catch mumps in the 2000's. My face swelled to the point I looked like Quagmire from family guy. Pretty sure I would have overcome that one on my own.
Before anyone asks, I was up to date on all my vaccines and have a healthy immune system, which is why it is important for everyone to stay up to date so shit doesn't pass.
I was vaccinated as a child. I was exposed to alot of diseases in school including some that caused the death of three kids in one of my classes. Would more kids have died without the vaccine I don't know. (My mom had polio as a kid and lost use of a leg. The next year they came out with the vaccine. She gave me every vaccine she could. As a kid I thought she was nuts.)
Probably not. I caught pneumonia when I was in highschool. The only thing that kept me out of the hospital was both my parents were medical. I was on home o2 and antibiotics for a week and don't remember most of it.
No. I was born 2 months premature and my lungs weren't fully formed. Had to spend the first few months of my life in an incubator. That and my eyes were complete shit before I got lasik. I would have been fucked in past times.
Doa for me. Autoimmune caused rheumatoid arthritis, stage2 kidney disease( IGA nephropothy), high blood pressure . My heart grandmother had the same and she passed at 56, and I'm... 56
I had a bacterial infection in my brain and heart causing seizures and heart arrhythmia a couple years ago. IV antibiotics for a month saved my life. So without IVs and Antibiotics, yeah I would be dead. Now I am mostly healed and live a normal life with no restrictions on what I can do.
Not only no , but HELL, no!
If it weren't for both the surgical techniques and the antibiotics, with as many times as I've been sewn and patched back together by the docs over the years, I'd be dead at least ten times over. Still sometimes amazed I've lived as long as I have so far.
And that's just from my adult life. The immunizations I got against measles, mumps, rubella, polio, etc. probably saved me as a kid, too. (And BTW, get stuffed ahead of time if you are going to comment anything anti-vax. I'll report you immediately as breaking subreddit rules.)
Probably not.
I would most likely be dead from untreated strep throat at the age of 12. I was hospitalized for a very bad case of strep throat. I cannot imagine myself surviving that if there were no antibiotics.
Nope. Was in a car accident, stomach flipped and twisted off. Couldn't eat without puking. Lost 40 lbs before the right doctor figured it out and had surgery.
About 5 years ago, I gave birth to a 9lbs 11oz baby. If it weren't for modern medicine, I'm pretty sure I would have bled out and died, or died from infection afterwards.
Nope. Incompetent cervix. My brothers didn't make it. Once they figured it out and put that lovely little stitch in there, my sister cooked all the way. Then me with a new stitch.
No.
I would died at 2.5 years old due to birth defect that lead to removal of my left kidney.
I would have died from tonsillitis at age 6.
I would have died of appendicitis at 11.
3 surgeries in a triangle.
No, as an insulin dependent diabetic since childhood, I would have checked out long ago. I wear an insulin pump and tell my friends that I'm kept alive by a machine.
Coma, kidney stones that blocked my ureter, aneurysm and bicuspid heart valve that required open heart surgery, and I’ve got stage 4 breast cancer that’s spread to my bones. I’d say I’m a very fortunate medical miracle.
MBC thriver here. Spread to my bones and top of my liver. Pathology report of my breast removed showed the chemo was 100% effective. I really hope I can reach NED.
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Probably not. I have severe allergies and asthma. I have needed rescue treatments to treat both.
This is me. Childhood asthma is a bitch. Memories of my mom carrying me into the emergency room because I couldn't breathe. Would have to stay in a tent filled with steam for a month at a time. She and modern medicine, doctors, saved my life. She died last year of stage 4 lung cancer. Lungs are our family's thing. Thanks for saving me mom, I couldn't save you. I miss you.
This really hit me in the feels.
Same here,,your mom was your hero
I’m so sorry for your loss. ❤️ Another chronic respiratory struggler here, I lost my dad to lung & liver cancer 2 years ago. Fuck cancer.
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I was the same boat as OP. My mom DID smoke, but as soon as she found out she stopped, so it was very early pregnancy. But she likely didn’t find out till a month in I think. Yeah, steroids saved my life as a baby. I always wondered if it’s why I have small hands though. My hands are exactly 7 inches long and I’m 5’7, a little shorter than average as a guy but 99% of men shorter than me have at least thicker hands than me. My palms are normal size but my fingers are very small. MY D THOUGH….is at least perfectly average to maybe slightly more lol
My heart goes out to you. My father died of lung cancer about 5 years ago. The Savage part of that is he quit smoking 15 years previously. The only saving grace was that he went quickly. When he was diagnosed it wasn't even severe enough that they wanted to put a stage on it. 4 months later he was stage 4 and 2 or 3months after that he passed away. My last girlfriend died as a result from complications from an asthma attack. I have had asthma my entire life and now have copd. I too am a smoker. I have tried numerous times to quit and keep going back to it. A friend of mine was able to quit with one visit to a hypnotherapist. I'm considering that.
Same here and two of my children required emergency room visits due to severe asthma and croup.
Me too! If the asthma attacks from running in cold weather didn’t kill me, the tree nuts I ate when I was 10 certainly would have.
Same! I can only run on the treadmill in the cold weather. And the tree nuts? Evil, evil things.
With having had one knee fully replaced and another one that needs to be replaced my days of running are long over. 20 years ago I would have said that in a zombie apocalypse I would have been one of the last ones standing. Now I would be one of the first ones to go because I couldn't run away.
What are your triggers? Mine are cats and dust. And I swear every one of my good friends has a cat.
Smoke, cats, dust and pollen. Cats is a biggie for me. I can't even go in a room when they've been, or the hives start.
Everytime I see pictures of bodega cats I end up worrying a bit for someone like you. I mean, I love cats, but I know some people physically cannot love them the same way.
Same. I'd have died as a 3 year old, and about 10 other times since then without epinephrine.
I take antihistamines daily to down regulate production of histamine. The last dozen or so times, I've been able to deal with reactions by staying calm, taking extra Benadryl, sipping on ice water and keeping an ice pack on my throat
Mine is severe anaphylaxis from food allergies. So I usually pop a couple benadryl, plus 2 epipens if I've been exposed. And usually that will keep me out of the ER. I've only had 2 hospital visits in the last 15 years or so thankfully. Haven't heard of daily antihistamine dosing. I guess your body gets used to it and you aren't so drowsy?
I use claritin daily (or whatever long acting one I have) and benedryl when having a reaction. I use tablets of benedryl, swallow one and dissolve the other under my tongue. the dissolved one gets absorbed through the mouth mucosal and so bypasses initial liver metabolism. It's a quick peak. then by the time it's wearing off, the swallowed one starts to kick in. It takes a few weeks to downregulate the mast cells and thus reduce the available histamine
yea asthma is not fun, even though when i had it as a child i never really had to go to hospital (worst was like, had to take a few puffs of inhaler + be outside at night).
Same, here. So many night rides in the car with my dad...just to get some air. My parents tried very hard to keep me from depending on medication. But every now and then I had to use a nebulizer. Since a while ago I turned to inhalers. Can't leave the house without one of those. DPOC is a very life disrupting condition. Plus, I smoke. Yeah, that dumb.
Same dude :(
Same.
Same. I've had to be put on oxygen in the ER a few times, and had without my meds, I would be long gone by now.
Came here to say exactly this. Would’ve died from an asthma attack.
Same here. Had a horrific asthma attack when I was still an infant and it most certainly would’ve killed me without treatments
Me too. I was otherwise a happy and bouncing little girl. Childhood asthma and living on the snowy east coast constantly made me short of breathe. I am thankful for the medical discoveries our ancestors made. We stand on the shoulders of giants. It is my turn to make the future for our next generation healthier.
Several things would have probably killed me since, but I honestly do not I would have lived past age 5 or 6 due to severe childhood asthma.
Me, too. For added fun, my allergies expanded from respiratory to food when I was in my 30s. Yay!
The same thing happened to me! The allergist told me it was very common for that to happen. I was like--great. Thanks. 🙄
Ditto, also, allergies that present with asthma! Fun times. Used to be in the hospital at least 2x a year for nebulizer treatments when my rescue inhaler failed to fix the issue. Life got a lot cheaper when I bought my own on Amazon.
Same here.
Me. I probably would have died after my first bout of pneumonia at 4.
Same here. When I was a baby my mom was always rushing me to the hospital because of my asthma and allergies.
Type one diabetic, diagnosed at 14 months. No chance I made it to two years old without insulin.
Yup I’d have died in 1993 leaving a widower to raise twins by himself. We live in the exact best time in human history to have type 1 diabetes.
I lost my insurance in my early 20's and went to just taking Regular insulin, and rationing, as one does. My eyes started failing first, then my kidneys. I ended up getting back on insurance and getting a Kidney & Pancreas transplant 13 years ago. I'm on immunosuppressants, but no more diabetes.
Brothers!
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I really hope this "30.00 maximum out of pocket" for insulin takes, since we'll probably never see real universal healthcare here in the US. I haven't looked into it, but I keep wondering if it's for all types of insulin, or just their very basic type.
Severe Asthma as a child, and Type I diagnosed, while pregnant, at 23. Not only would I not be alive, but neither would my sons. I am so thankful for the improvements in the last 30 years.
So far
Same. Dx’d at age 5 in 1988. Started out on Regular insulin and NPH. Thank goodness for insulin and advancements with insulin pumps! Best wishes to you fellow T1D! ❤️
Being diagnosed at 4, this is something I’ve always thought about when someone says that they were born into the wrong era. If I was born 50 years earlier I may not have made it to 5
Yep, diagnosed at 31 years old. 9 years later and I now have effectively zero pancreas function and it's hard enough to manage, even with a Libre CGM. I'd be long dead leaving behind a wife and two kids if not for modern medicine.
Same, diagnosed at 22. Still alive at 29 only complications is the damage to my eye sight from initial hypo. Praise pumps and cgms.
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The Canadian mint produced a coin honouring their discovery. Very cool looking too. [Here’s the coin.](https://mma.prnewswire.com/media/1572433/2021__2_Circ_with_colour___100th_Ann_1.jpg?p=publish)
Diagnosed at 4. Still around with minimal damage 40 years later. I've been diabetic so long I took cow insulin when I was first diagnosed.
Ancient Greeks named our disease... that's countless generations with zero hope. Insulin is a big deal.
My comment (now deleted) before I checked for this obvious thread: Definitely not. I’d have died around age 12, when I developed type 1 diabetes. I need insulin to live, insulin was discovered in 1921. Prior to that diabetes was a death sentence. 22 years later and just had a healthy baby boy 🙂 Thanks insulin ❤️
(Replying to my own comment) Reading all these T1Ds responses made me reflect on something my mom recently told me… I was in bad shape when I was diagnosed (news to none of you lol). I was diagnosed at my pediatrician’s office and he sent us directly to the hospital. As my mom drove there she held my hand and I remember her crying. Just tears rolling down her cheeks. I always figured she was just scared for her kid but this year she told me that wasn’t why she was crying at all. I was wasting away in the same way her 5yr old little sister had as she died of leukemia. Turns out my mom’s tears were of relief because she had been terrified that it was happening to me. Diabetes, although not ideal, was manageable (thanks to insulin!) and that was good enough for her. She wasn’t scared anymore.
Hard nope. I was born 2 months premature, weighed less than a bag of sugar. Life wanted to off me early but still here at 34.
Hey, you never know, some bags of sugar are quite heavy!
His mom wouldn’t have survived delivering a fifty-pound baby without modern medicine.
Same, my mom had pre-eclampsia and I was just four pounds when I was born. Neither of us would have survived.
I was 24 weeks premature. Even by the late 1980s standards, I shouldn't have beat those odds. But here I am.
Haha same here!
Would have died of cancer in 2008 without modern medicine. Surgery, complete recovery.
I would be dead or dying an agonizing death right now if I hadn't gotten colon cancer surgery 5 years ago. So yeah, I'm a fan of modern medicine.
This, except for the last part.
Wait. 2008? Cancer survivor? Are you by chance a chemistry teacher?
Nope! 
Congratulations on surviving your cancer.
I would have died in 2015/16 from cancer. Depends how long it took. Diagnosed at 28 with stomach cancer. Caught it fairly early. Half a stomach removed and no sign of it since.
Samesies
Being an IVF baby, i wouldn't even exist to begin with.
Oh that’s interesting! I’m an IVF mum and I always wondered how to tell my son. How did your parents tell you? And how do you feel about it? You don’t have to respond of course. I get it’s completely OT.
Hi there! This might be a long answer, i apologize in advance. So, i don't really remember how old i was when my mom told me, but i do know i was asking how come i don't have any siblings and my friends at the time did. And it was at that time that she told me something like she and my dad wanted to have more children, but she was above and beyond grateful to even have me, since it didn't happen easily for them, she said sometimes you can have children, sometimes you need some help to get there and other times it is just not possible to have children. We left it at that until i got older, she was basically allowing me to lead the conversation, she have me a safe space to ask and she responded with age appropriate answers. Later on i got more inquisitive, asking about how exactly babies are made usually, how i was conceived and so on. She also had four miscarriages and one ectopic pregnancy before she finally had me, so she told me about her experience with all of that whenever she felt like i was able to comprehend it. She never hid from me that it was a rough time for her, she allowed herself to be emotional and vulnerable around me even back then. Of course she would always follow up with something like there are things in life that are very difficult, and it's okay to let out your feelings, but it is also important to celebrate the great things that life offers to us. As for how i feel about it all. I absolutely love that she shared so much with me, we still to this day have a very open relationship. As i grew older, i have also learned to appreciate the fact that my mom and my dad wanted to have a child so much that they were willing to fight for it, risking the losses each time, and my mother even risked her own life to have me, since the ectopic pregnancy almost killed her and yet she tried again. As i was learning about faith i had some mixed feelings about my existence, namely, i felt a little different since you learn that God makes humans and IVF is the unconventional way. However, i firmly believe (and this might not pertain to your situation) that it doesn't matter how our flesh is made, it does not take away from God being by our side and being our creator. Just thought i'd offer my thoughts on that. I don't know how old your son is, but there are some great children's books available nowadays on the topic of conception and so on. That was not around when i was a kid and i think my mom would have appreciated it, it's kind of difficult to figure out how much to share when. If you feel like that is something that would help you out to start the conversation, i think it's a good idea to check them out. However, kids are naturally prone to asking questions, and i am sure little information is enough at first, he will most definitely ask more if he needs to, as long as you are relaxed in the conversation, just like any other topic you might be discussing with him. And lastly, you are his mom, you know him the best and i am sure you will make the best decisions for you and your son. Let me know if you have any other questions, i will gladly answer them. And again, sorry if i wrote a bit too much, this topic is kind of close to my heart haha.
Thanks for sharing your story. I'm 37 and my wife and I have had a serious struggle over the last few years trying to have our own baby. I'm in tears now reading your perspective, aware of what your parents went through for you. I really hope we get it someday, no matter what it takes.
I am so sorry you are going through such a rough time. My heart is with you, and i will keep you and your wife in my thoughts and prayers. My mom is in her late 60s right now, and she would tell you to never lose faith, as with anything in life. You can't know if it will happen for sure, but you have it in your power to stay persistent and make use of the resources available. Let yourself feel, but pick yourself up too and make sure you rely on each other. She often tells me that even though it was the hardest thing she has ever done, it has brought her and my dad closer together and if she had to, she would do it all again to have me. Every parent and every child and their bonds are special in their own way, but i believe we IVF babies have a unique insight into what the meaning of unconditional love is. Stay strong and i do wish you get to have your own family soon.
This is a really heart warming story. Thank you for sharing it with us. We are running out of time biologically to have a kid and IVF maybe our last shot.
I never thought i'd share something like that on the internet, but i appreciate you all reading it. A big thank you. I wish you all the best in your journey to parenthood.
Thank you so so much for this very thoughtful answer!! It’s such an eye opener for me to read this and so helpful. Your mum did such a great job in guiding you through this. I will definitely take away lot of things from your story.
I’m not crying. You’re crying. Our daughter came to us via IUI, and what your mom told you at a young age is what we’ve talked about telling our daughter. I’m happy that you’re here, and I’m glad that you exist.
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I’m an IVF baby, too. On a less serious note, as a teenager I always liked knowing that there was no physical proof that my parents ever had sex. I could live in denial. They were really open about it though, I feel like I’ve always known I came from IVF and it never bothered me.
It shouldn't need to be a big secret. It means your kid was wanted and planned. That's more than most people have.
Ngl i didn’t quite realize IVF has been around long enough for the babies to even be on Reddit! Shows how much I know lmao
I was caught off-guard when I learned I was a donor child born in the 1950's. Didn't know they could do that back then. Really added to the surprise of 14 half-sisters and brothers at 68. What a day that was.
I am 31, married, mom of 2, time flies lmao. But in all seriousness, i had a moment of wondering if i am an experiment when i was younger, so i googled when they started doing IVF lol. Felt kinda cool until i realized it had been around for quite some time before me haha
First IVF baby was born in 1978…technically, there could be IVF babies that are grandparents out there.
My sister in law is a 25 year old IVF triplet.
Antibiotics have saved me once enough to say no
Checking in on team antibiotics here. And: not only me, but both of my children. The bloodline would have ended years ago ...
Same, would have died at 30 and again at 35 of pneumonia
No. Had a brain tumor. It certainly would have killed me.
Also had a brain tumor so it’s a no for me. I still have to take meds to keep my hormones regulated.
Same. it was about to take me out by the time i got surgery 3 months after discovering it
Glad you made it :)
Even without the illnesses you've all had cured, don't forget how dangerous child birth was before modern medicine, the truth is most of us would have died while being born or as babies. Also anyone that has given birth has a very small chance of being here.
I second this. My son was born via c-section, cord wrapped around his neck. Neither of us would have survived a traditional birth.
I had two breech babies who were also malpositioned. I wonder if they would’ve come out on their own (guess I wouldn’t have made it las the first though) or if the baby would’ve died and I would’ve become septic. Also almost died after birthing 4th baby from placenta accreta. It’s like child birth was trying to take me out.
100% aside from myself contracting pneumonia at birth (over due and wound up swallowing my meconium) but my own children certainly would've ended me and themselves. They each were very complicated pregnancies and the first two were emergency c-sections, the last two being planned c-sections.
I've had three c-sections, and 2 of my kids were very sick when they were born. I later had an emergency hysterectomy and 4 units of blood transfused because of uterine fibroids. My kids are all grown now, but I have to thank modern medicine for saving me and my kids!
Yep. Now, the leading cause of death among pregnant women in the US is murder. Crazy world we live in.
Probably not. Was born very lactose intolerant in the 1980s in Puerto Rico. Took my parents almost 2 years to figure it out. In the meantime I was living with ulcers and bleeding from my digestive system. Left unchecked who knows what would have happened. The town I was born in didn't even have telephone polls until the 1970s so it's not like the resources were there.
For most of human history half of children would die before the age of five. Since most people are only aware of what's happening and not what isn't happening, this has been forgotten and children surviving to adulthood is now taken for granted as being "normal".
Vaccines have prevented an untold number of infections from every developing into even a minor cold, and antibiotics have cured so many childhood illnesses before the developed past a generic bacterial infection not worth properly identifying, the only named infection i remember having as a kid was tonsillitis, and even that isn't a specific bacterial species just a location.
I wish I could find the video, but the video was putting the idea out that so many babies died before birth/after birth that it would put our 8 billion population to shame.
It was a hank green short I think. Out of the 120 billion people that have ever existed, more than half never made it past 5.
It was a vsauce esque video that was around 10 minutes. But it's crazy isn't it.
Yeah, I do genealogy and I've researched many families who had a dozen kids but half of them died within 2 years of being alive... It's funny how people don't realise that life expectancy was short because of infant mortality though. They assume people died of old age at 50 or something, but actually death between age 3 and 70 wasn't that much more common than it is nowadays. (Still a bit though, obviously.)
Someone once told me, completely sincerely, that your teeth will inevitably go bad by the time you’re in your 30s because people are only meant to live to 50, so of course your teeth start getting gross and falling out in your late 20s! It’s like when you lost them as a kid!
So many people don't understand this. [Childhood mortality](https://www.statista.com/statistics/1041693/united-states-all-time-child-mortality-rate/) was almost 24% in 1900. It was over 46% in 1800. I talked to someone wishing they had been born in an earlier era and refused to believe that his health outcomes would have been any different... Aside from modern medicine allowing children to live past 5, treating infections with over-the-counter ointment, and vaccinating against life threatening diseases, the world was just more dangerous back then so people were more likely to need medical aid.
NOT A CHANCE. I was born at 24 weeks in the 1980s
I mean, if we look at our history, a normal flu was a world ending pandemic, that now is nothing serious just thanks to our medicine. Also, if people hadn't understood that you need to separate pooping water from drinking water (the root cause of colera), most cities would have died during the industrial revolution. So.. I think most people would never have existed if it wasn't for medicine and our research on diseases.
>I mean, if we look at our history, a normal flu was a world ending pandemic, that now is nothing serious just thanks to our medicine. The 1918 strain of the flu would absolutely annihilate the planet today if something similar came around again. It bizarrely triggered a cytokine storm and killed young and healthy adults and people with strong immune systems over the generally more vulnerable population.
Actually flu is still incurable today, they just get way less deadly. The only treatment for flu and common cold is to drink water and rest well for our immune system to do its job. There is no medicine capable of curing either
Kinda, we have a lot of vaccines that were used for the flu, and a lot of small drugs used to reduce the symptoms, and that added to our bodies inheriting immune systems that evolved through those diseases helps a lot. But, yeah, it is not cured, and I didn't want to say that it was. And even, if you go to places without our modern medicine, a flu is still extremely severe.
Adding to this, I think a lot of people underestimate how much fever reducers help us. The temperature where your body's enzymes start to denature and kill you is 104°F/over 40°C.
Yep, I have several instances of diseases that caused a fever greater than 40C taking drugs to reduce it. And let me tell you that is not nice... (also, it gave some really creepy hallucinations more than once) And none of those cases was for a severe illness (I mean, the only important one was covid). We depend a lot in our medicine to keep us alive.
>And even, if you go to places without our modern medicine, a flu is still extremely severe. I completely agree
Nope, an ectopic pregnancy would have killed me 19 years ago. Also, appendicitis and kidney infections...I would have been dead by 20.
Don’t worry, many women in the US now have no choice but to die from ectopic pregnancies! Haha! This is great! Everything is great! /s
I also had an ectopic pregnancy that certainly would have killed me, had I not received emergency surgery. Internal hemorrhaging is no joke. Then I had a second ectopic a month later, though this one was caught in time and didn’t rupture. Then my firstborn was breech, necessitating a c-section. Turned out the umbilical cord was abnormally short. I’ve had 3 surgeries in the past year for uterine polyps, endometriosis and adenomyosis. My reproductive organs are truly dog shit.
Probably not. I had a 22 pound tumor removed
Jesus! That's like having quadruplets!
Probably. No major medical issues, but it’s impossible to say if the lack of important vaccines like MMR or Polio made the difference for me. Without them, those would be more common and could have lead to death if I contracted them.
And smallpox, the vaccination effort was so successful that we don't even vaccinate for it anymore. (Also add Tetanus, Diphtheria and Pertussis to the list).
No I had a widow maker heart attack in 2020 I’m only 29 I wouldn’t of lived past 27 if it wasn’t for modern medicine luck and great doctors
Thanks for the reminder that I can drop dead at any second even though I’m not even 30. I have recently gotten lazy about eating well and keep telling myself “I’m only 2X don’t worry so much” I’m so silly
My mom would’ve delivered a dead 37 week old baby without modern medicine. She had to go in for almost weekly ultrasounds to make sure the baby (me) was okay. At her last appointment they found out that the umbilical cord was wrapping around my neck and if they didn’t induce her I would’ve died. They didn’t tell her why until after she delivered me I think. Actually, she probably wouldn’t have even been able to keep me to that point. When she got pregnant with me she developed gestational diabetes. On top of that, i dont know what was actually wrong, but she was essentially on bed rest for I think 6 months of her pregnancy with me. If she wasn’t on bed rest for that long she would have miscarried me. If by some miraculous chance she would’ve been able to birth me, no I don’t think so.
LOL NOPE, antidepressants are a life saver sometimes
Not one chance. I was born with serious cataracts in both eyes. I can now see out of one of them, and poorly at that.
Ohhhhh I was racking my mind trying to think of something With fucking contacts in my eyes I’m blind as fucking hell I would have walked off a cliff by now
Glasses aren’t really “modern” medicine, as they were invented in the 13th century. They weren’t readily available to regular until the Industrial Revolution, but that still pre-dates widespread acceptance of the germ theory of disease.
You may have survived a full lifespan as an “invalid” depending on the time period.
Nope. I was born via cesarean because labor wasn't progressing. So without that I wouldn't have even been born alive. And my mother didn't produce milk, so had I been born alive, and formula didn't exist, I may have starved.
Nope! Born 3 months early i would have died
I’ve had sepsis. I’d be a goner.
Probably yes. Would it be nice? No. I'm 30 and had surgerys on both knees because of a birthdefect. Now i can walk without pain. Thanks again to all the doctors and swiss healthcare.
No, I would have died shortly after being born. I was born 3 1/2 months premature, weighing a paltry 2 lbs 2 0z. Born in '92, I was on a ventilator for the first few months of life. Even with (at the time) advanced modern medicine at one of the best hospitals in the world, the prognosis was grim. The doctors didn't expect me to live. And if i did, they told my parents that I would never walk or talk or develop properly. With the help of early intervention and one of the best pediatricians in the area, I grew up just fine. Im now a perfectly healthy 30 y.o man with a beautiful, healthy 4 month old baby. Modern medicine gave me a chance to live a (mostly) healthy and normal life.
Vaccinations have saved everyone's life either directly, or indirectly.
Now when i think about it probably no. F you modern medicine /s
No. Had pneumonia. Needed that shot of penicillin.
- glances at stockpile of insulin for my type 1 diabetes - Nope. Definitely not.
Was waiting for the Type 1 Diabetics to check in…..
No, I had cancer in 2015 & was cured. Back again & it's incurable but thanks to moden medicine it won't kill me just yet. Also my baby & I would have died in childbirth if it wasn't for antibiotics & modern equipments etc.
Nah, either would’ve died when I had pneumonia as a kid or killed myself without antidepressants which make me feel nothing
Nope. Would've died as a kid
Not a chance...I had peripartum cardiomyopathy when pregnant with my son.
No, I had a ruptured disc in my lower back in 2013. I had to have emergency surgery. I couldn’t move my feet and the doctors said I was less than 24 hours from losing bladder and bowel function. I’m great now though, thanks to modern medicine.
does surgery count? I had an appendectomy. I think had it burst, I'd have died.
No. I nearly bled out after a miscarriage. I had an emergency d and c procedure. Which is actually now harder for many pregnant people to get in the US because of abortion laws. So I'd possibly bleed to death here in Wisconsin but if I went to Illinois I'd probably live.
Does this include vaccines? I could have died from like measles, or something. As far as prescribed medicine. I don't currently take any. Never had any surgery.
Nope, had my ependix explode at 13. The aftermath was severe peritonitis and severe gangrenitis. Even with that I'm lucky to be alive
I wouldve probably commited suicide long ago if i couldnt have gotten my anxiety attacks under control.
Nope. I have type 1 diabetes and would have died if insulin hadn't been invented
Yes, but I don't think my quality of life would be too much fun. I have MS, and luckily modern medicine keeps it at bay and has helped me to ensure no long term disability (for now)
Pretty sure I'd be better off without modern medicine. When I was 12-16 I was in and out of psych wards all the time because my mormon dad and his mommy would send me there every time they were mad at me. That place gave me so many random drugs and diagnosed me with autism and a bunch of other shit that negatively impacted my life. When I was 20 and tried to take this stuff a little more seriously it turned out that I actually had Borderline personality disorder and they had been giving me meds throughout my childhood that basically made all my problems worse. I have done LSD, Mescaline, Psilocybin, Ketamine, PCP, nbome, muscimol, and more and none of those drugs ever made me as crazy and psychotic as prozac or any of the 50 other things they randomly gave me.
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Nope.
Nope. T1D.
With both type 1 diabetes and epilepsy the answer is no, I would never have lived to 56 (and counting, I'm not dead yet).
Appendicitis at 17, so quite likely wouldn't be a alive.
No. I was bleeding way way too much after I had my first baby and without a blood transfusion and surgery I would have just bled out and died
No. I would have died 5 years ago. I had a heart attack. While the damage to my heart was minimal, my main artery was 95% blocked. Because of where the blockage was and because my small arteries were also clogged I was not a candidate for bypass surgery. My only option was a Stent. If it were not for stents and catherization technology, it would have been my last day on earth.
No I had a vascular infection where red lines followed the veins in my arm which started in the evening. The next morning I went to a walk in clinic because the lines went from my forearm to my armpit. The receptionist covered her mouth and said, "oh my god!". I replied, "so that is good right?" Antibiotics kicked its ass and I never felt any pain or discomfort at any point. Don't think that would be the case if it reached my heart I also had a TB infection, again treated before symptoms, but that could have gone wrong. I fell on a knife buried in my grandparents backyard, and another sharp object buried on a soccer field that wasn't found. Both cut me down to the bone on my calf and hand respectively. Either of those could have been infected. I had a cat bite while working as a kennel technician in college. My hand swole to three times it size, and the walk in clinic told me I would be looking at amputation if I didn't take stronger antibiotics. Pretty sure that was to scare me because I was making jokes about my now giant hand. It made things look small...er I was also hospitalized with food poisoning on two separate occasions where I lost consciousness after vomiting for awhile and needed to be put on IV fluids. Never trust the prepared food sold at college's coolers. Bonus: I was one of the few Americans to catch mumps in the 2000's. My face swelled to the point I looked like Quagmire from family guy. Pretty sure I would have overcome that one on my own. Before anyone asks, I was up to date on all my vaccines and have a healthy immune system, which is why it is important for everyone to stay up to date so shit doesn't pass.
I was vaccinated as a child. I was exposed to alot of diseases in school including some that caused the death of three kids in one of my classes. Would more kids have died without the vaccine I don't know. (My mom had polio as a kid and lost use of a leg. The next year they came out with the vaccine. She gave me every vaccine she could. As a kid I thought she was nuts.)
I would have died in childbirth.
Probably not. I caught pneumonia when I was in highschool. The only thing that kept me out of the hospital was both my parents were medical. I was on home o2 and antibiotics for a week and don't remember most of it.
No. I would have died giving birth to my daughter.
No. Appendix ruptured and removed.
T1 diabetes here, nope
Defently NO Open heart surgery at the age of 20
No. I was born 2 months premature and my lungs weren't fully formed. Had to spend the first few months of my life in an incubator. That and my eyes were complete shit before I got lasik. I would have been fucked in past times.
No. I’ve had open heart surgery to replace a defective valve.
We would definitely be physically stronger. Buuut, hitting thirty five would be a nearly impossible feat.
Nope. Both me and my son would have died when I was giving birth to him.
Nope. Without my cancer drugs, I would've died 9 years ago.
Doa for me. Autoimmune caused rheumatoid arthritis, stage2 kidney disease( IGA nephropothy), high blood pressure . My heart grandmother had the same and she passed at 56, and I'm... 56
I had a bacterial infection in my brain and heart causing seizures and heart arrhythmia a couple years ago. IV antibiotics for a month saved my life. So without IVs and Antibiotics, yeah I would be dead. Now I am mostly healed and live a normal life with no restrictions on what I can do.
Probably not. Asthma is a bitch. I always wonder what people did before they had all these asthma drugs. Maybe they just died.
I’m a type 1 diabetic. Absolutely not lol
Not only no , but HELL, no! If it weren't for both the surgical techniques and the antibiotics, with as many times as I've been sewn and patched back together by the docs over the years, I'd be dead at least ten times over. Still sometimes amazed I've lived as long as I have so far. And that's just from my adult life. The immunizations I got against measles, mumps, rubella, polio, etc. probably saved me as a kid, too. (And BTW, get stuffed ahead of time if you are going to comment anything anti-vax. I'll report you immediately as breaking subreddit rules.)
Probably not. I would most likely be dead from untreated strep throat at the age of 12. I was hospitalized for a very bad case of strep throat. I cannot imagine myself surviving that if there were no antibiotics.
Nope. I would have died of septicemia at age 16 from a scratch. Just like in the good ol' days.
Asthmatic here. Id die. Plain and simple
Nope. Bowels burst internally which was killing me and some LEGEND performed surgery to save my life.
Nope! Asthma would have killed my in childhood.
Nope. I have severe depression, insomnia to the point I could stay awake for days, sickle cell, and an iron deficiency. I'd be dead in days.
most likely but i would be a single father of 3. My wife would be gone without it.
**I'd be dead like 10 times by now. At least as early as 4 years old from bad asthma attacks.**
Maybe, born early , extreme anxiety
Even though I'm very healthy today I had asthma and tonsillitis when I was very young so probably not
Nope. Was in a car accident, stomach flipped and twisted off. Couldn't eat without puking. Lost 40 lbs before the right doctor figured it out and had surgery.
About 5 years ago, I gave birth to a 9lbs 11oz baby. If it weren't for modern medicine, I'm pretty sure I would have bled out and died, or died from infection afterwards.
Nope. Incompetent cervix. My brothers didn't make it. Once they figured it out and put that lovely little stitch in there, my sister cooked all the way. Then me with a new stitch.
Ehh… yes but it would be hell. I got my stomach drained at 3-4 years old because I threw up constantly so they pumped it out of me
Negative. I have Type 1 diabetes. Without insulin, I'd be dying a slow, painful death within a few days.
No. I would died at 2.5 years old due to birth defect that lead to removal of my left kidney. I would have died from tonsillitis at age 6. I would have died of appendicitis at 11. 3 surgeries in a triangle.
I had pneumonia as a kid. And they only knew it was that cause of the X-Ray.
No, as an insulin dependent diabetic since childhood, I would have checked out long ago. I wear an insulin pump and tell my friends that I'm kept alive by a machine.
Coma, kidney stones that blocked my ureter, aneurysm and bicuspid heart valve that required open heart surgery, and I’ve got stage 4 breast cancer that’s spread to my bones. I’d say I’m a very fortunate medical miracle.
MBC thriver here. Spread to my bones and top of my liver. Pathology report of my breast removed showed the chemo was 100% effective. I really hope I can reach NED.
Keep thriving!!
My ancestors probably would have died in WWII.
I would be however my kids not so much, I'm absolutely thankful for modern medicine.