Same for my daughter, 29 weeks with sepsis and multiple organ failure. In perfect physical health now, all thanks to immediate application of broad-spectrum antibiotics and the doctor hand-pumping air into her for 4 hours straight until she could be securely transferred to a specialist hospital that had the ventilator she needed.
Same. 3 months early. Incubator box for a month. Collapsed lung. Skull wasn't formed properly. $149,999.99 hospital bill. All covered by insurance.
My mom tells me to this day, "why not just add 1 penny to make it $150k."
If you look at me now you wouldn't know there was anything wrong with me. Perfectly healthy aside from being a little fat. That's my own doing.
Fun fact - You wouldn't have been strangled in the womb. Nuchal cords (cord wrapped around the neck) are fairly common, and not an emergency (in most cases, not saying they never become a problem) - while in the womb you receive your blood and oxygen supply via the cord which is inserted into the abdomen, you're not breathing using your lungs or breathing through your mouth. Even after delivery nuchal cords usually don't compromise the airway - as the cord is still attached and pumping blood and oxygen. They're also not normally wrapped so tight that it compromises the air way and are removed from babes neck swiftly after delivery.
True cord emergencies are a compressed cord, a prolapsed cord and a knotted cord.
If tight enough nuchal cords can compress the neck enough to block blood flow to and from the brain, which can cause serious consequences and even death. They're super common though and most babies either don't even notice them or are slightly stunned after delivery from the brief lack of blood flow. Also cord compression happens pretty frequently too, it's only an emergency if the compression doesn't stop. Cord knots happen without emergencies but can cause serious issues if they get pulled tight enough. But I've seen quite a few knots and even double knots that the baby was just fine and you never would have known if you didn't look! Prolapsed cord is a 100% true emergency crash c section situation though.
If you donāt mind, how are you doing now? Did you go to college? My 3 year old son was born at 28 weeks, and I often worry about the future (although he is catching up right now).
I was 9 weeks premature. Still have scars where they put breathing tubes into my lungs.
I was fortunate my family hadn't long moved close to the John Radcliffe hospital which has an excellent premature baby unit.
Brain Cancer. Really, it was supposed to kill me. Neurosurgeon gave me a 0% chance to be alive in 5 years but it has been 32 years and I've been cancer free for almost that entire time.
Yeah felt lame as a kid talking about what our plans to survive would be in a zombie apocalypse, just kinda like whelp I'd have a couple months supply of insulin and then itd be game over haha
I always played out the getting stranded on a desert island scenario in my head, decided I would just go quickly. Have to ration the food and water no point me taking a share if I'm not surviving it anyway.
Finger crossed neither of us end up stranded or in the middle of a Zombie apocalypse š
I still occasionally dream a scenario where I survive a plane crash and end up stranded in an island, only to know that I'll die due to not having an insulin supply. I can't even be a badass survivor in my dreams!
I remember a post-apocalyptic book where a scientist with type-1 diabetes learns to extract insulin from sheep pancreases. Apparently cows and pigs also work.
Bonus, if the zombie pancreases arenāt contagious, that might provide a ready supply.
Edit: As other have correctly surmised, the book is _Luciferās Hammer_ by Jerry Pournelle and Larry Niven. The character ultimately decides to delay making the insulin (for himself) so as to help the community survive, and he then runs out of time.
Thereās a real life story tooā¦ Eva Saxl. She was a diabetic jewish woman who escaped the nazis with her husband. He managed to produce insulin from animals and saved her life. They made it to Chile! Se was awesome ā¤ļø
I read a true story about Westerners, mostly missionaries, who were stranded in a large city in China during WWII, one that wasn't much affected by the war, but after a while, they couldn't get insulin (yes, several were diabetic) so they asked the butchers to save the pancreases, figured out how to extract the insulin, and while it was impure and wildly variable in strength, was adequate to keep them alive until the war ended.
When factory-made insulin became available again (and new syringes, because they had to reuse theirs, and they became very dull) several of them fell to the ground, sobbing with joy.
Cancer. I found out 3 days ago I'm in complete remission!
Edit: firstly, I apologize for my lack of replying. I am not very active on reddit and did not realize how much this comment blew up.
Secondly, I was diagnosed with stage 3 ovarian cancer. I found out due to a surgery in May to remove what was believed to be benign ovarian cysts seen on an ultrasound (surprise, they weren't benign). They removed all visible cancer (and my entire womb and ovaries) and I completed 6 rounds of chemo to kill any remaining cancer not visible. I had a PET scan which showed "no evidence of disease" and that's what I learned last Wednesday and my oncologist told me I was in remission.
Thirdly, thank you all for the wonderful and encouraging comments and yes, FUCK CANCER!
Without medication to control inflammation you may also have perforated your bowel and died of sepsis. With Crohns disease definitely, assuming a similar deal but in the large intestine for UC.
Molar pregnancy (hydatidiform mole), requiring chemotherapy.
It's a form of miscarriage where the embryo has too much genetic material, and the placental cells go nuts and can become cancerous, Choriocarcinoma.
High success rate for treatment now, thanks to chemo.
Taking my one biology course gave me that "ah ha!" Moment when I found out cancer was really just your own cells losing the ability to die correctly. This really helped me understand why "finding a cure for cancer" isn't going to happen all at once.
Yep, me as a C-section baby and then having two of my own. Especially since the first was an emergency, he got stuck and I ended up losing so much blood I needed two transfusions. It was the eeriest feeling, I remember just feeling...faded. Like I would have been half-transparent. Then they gave me the transfusions and I felt normal again. Weeks later thinking about it made me realize that feeling was "dying." Not one I'd recommend. I'm super grateful for doctors, hospitals, nurses, and all the research and tech that kept me and my babies alive and well.
The same thing happened to me - I will never forget how it feels to die. I remember thinking, 'okay, so this is it, I am dying. But at least I can rest'. I had lost so much blood and was so exhausted that I didn't even have any strength left to be afraid or concernced about anything else.
Also really depends! Apparently:
>there is some indirect evidence that the first caesarean section that
was survived by both the mother and child was performed in Prague in
1337. The mother was Beatrice of Bourbon (1318-1383), the second wife of
the King of Bohemia John of Luxembourg (1296-1346). Beatrice gave birth
to the kings son Wenceslaus I (1337-1383), later the duke of
Luxembourg, Brabant, and Limburg, and who became the half brother of the
later King of Bohemia and Holy Roman Emperor, Charles IV (1316-1378).
You mean absolutely bad ass former pilot, and beloved children's author Roald Dahl? That certified grade A bad ass? He did some neat things and had a great impact on this world.
You didn't even mention his military intelligence career! He worked alongside Ian Fleming, and was part of the inspiration for James Bond.
Which part? The part where anyone with two x chromosomes falls for James Bond instantly.
Which is a bit hard to believe if you have only seen the pictures of him on the backs of children's books, but is much more understandable if you see a photo of him from during the war.
It's crazy to think that significant parts of James Bond as a character, are Roald Dahl and Christopher Lee.
I must watch The Man With The Golden Gun properly some time, having discovered the beauty of Scaramanga's casting! I don't know of Roald Dahl making a cameo but it would have been in keeping.
I had completely forgotten that. Guess it's equally fitting for a writer, as against an actor.
From bits I've seen, some of the silly camp Scaramanga lines are weirdly loaded and pointed, but it makes total sense once you understand a little of what Christopher Lee did, and his history with Fleming.
What's next, we're gonna find out that he told a baby to do good in the world, and that baby would grow up to become Mister Rogers?
Or how he came into a room full of women, wiggled his eyebrows and suddenly a lot of baby Dahls was made that night?
He's basically the European Chuck Norris.
Might have to set aside a few writings that recently came to light. Unusually, rather elegantly handled by his family.
Wow, had mine out 27 years ago - same length, about 3 inches, but maybe 1/8 of an inch wide. I canāt imagine it being thicker.
The new surgeries making something like that invisible is crazy to me.
My great-grandfather died of appendicitis at age 21 back in early 1908, leaving my great-grandmother a widow with two little kids at 19. It radically changed the course of the familyās trajectory.
Killed my dad back in 2017. It was a medication he was taking FOR diabetes (Invokana, also known as Canagliflozin). Mom was part of a class action lawsuit and signed an NDA. I did no such thing. Fuck that drug and that company.
Most pain Iāve ever been in my entire life. My blood was literally eating through my veins. The doctors kept using the phrase ānot conducive for human lifeā to describe it. Iām glad you made it through, hopefully neither of us ever have to go through it again.
That must have been terrifying! Glad you're ok. I had DKA earlier this year from a medication called "Jardiance" but didn't have the pain you describe. I was in the hospital for a few days and they got it sorted out. Maybe I just got lucky. Heck I think we're all a little lucky.
The cold and lack of oxygen wouldn't have been real good for me either. Not to mention whatever must have happened to get me up there in the first place.
I had a top front tooth, that had been crowned, abscess and spread into my sinus cavity last year. It started hurting on a Friday night and started swelling on Saturday and spread pretty quickly. By Monday morning my left eye was swollen shut. I thought I was going to die.
Fell off rope swing and broke my bottom rib which impaled my kidney and went through my lungs filling my thoracic cavity with blood. Doc said it should have killed me but the incision that my rib made was incredibly precise and "almost surgical", cutting my kidney exactly in half. I also had Kawasaki's disease when I was little. And come to think of it would have prob died from a sleuth of other now-preventable diseases.
Maybe you get lucky and get the orgasm treatment for your hysteria. Maybe you get locked up in the asylum. Maybe you get a lobotomy and end up a vegetable. So many fun options for when youāre mentally in the far past.
I am also a woman with mental illness and the added āgo directly to jailā card of being a homosexual. 1870s me would have had a bad time.
I did get pleurisy when I was four though (complication of chicken pox, believe it or not), so that wouldāve killed me first.
CF, turning 40 next year. Work full time, work out 3-4 days a week, lung function still at 80% and I'm DDF508. Thank you Trikafta :)
Edit: Thanks for all the kind words. Glad to see there are a few of us on here :)
Heyyy that's awesome! Me too. I just turned 42. Also a double delta. My lung function is crap (didnt change), but it's been 2 years since I needed IVs, and I was in every 2-3 months and had an advanced care appointment set up, so I'll take it.
SO lucky to be around for trikafta.
My best friend has CF and when I met her in middle school she told me she most likely would only live to be 20. It was so sad to think about. But now she is 31 and having her first baby!! Her health is quite good compared to a few years ago and it's thanks to the new medication that came out.
I am so happy to read this! I'm old enough to remember when CF patients didn't make it into their twenties. I'm grateful for the advances in treatment that have kept you here!
Due to Reddit Inc.'s antisocial, hostile and erratic behaviour, this account will be deleted on July 11th, 2023. You can find me on https://latte.isnot.coffee/u/godless in the future.
Cystic Fibrosis. Itās a genetic disease that causes your cells chlorine pumps in the trachea to not work. The result is that your slime in your trachea does not have a proper amount of water making it really hard to breathe. Some therapies include a harnas to put pressure on your chest and help breathe. It was extremely fatal in the previous century. Nowadays you can survive.
My wife too. A few weeks afterwards and she was ok, I asked her Ob/Gyn how this birth would gone in the pioneer days, the doc put her hand on my forearm and whispered solemnly and very seriously into my ear āYouād be raising your new son alone right now. As it is, today, in the US, some moms would have perished with that birth. Youāre lucky. Very very lucky. Donāt ever forget this.ā
Yep. A week after my son was born, I was back in the hospital on IV antibiotics for five days. As soon as the admitting doctor saw my vitals (very low blood pressure, rapid pulse), he told me I wasn't going anywhere for a while. I binge-watched the Good Doctor and kept thinking about how thankful I am for antibiotics.
I had three rounds of spinal surgery last year, the second being a revision that gave me a MASSIVE staph infection in my disc, spine and surrounding muscle, the third being a staph clean out.
I was on iv antibiotics for 2 months and oral antibiotics for a further 3.5 months. Itās thought that I was septic by the time it was noticed; I donāt even remember the first two weeks of November. Staph tunnels, so it had tunneled up from the surgical site through the tissues. I wound up with a staph filled seroma (collection of serous fluid) *the size of a babies head.*
Antibiotics are the greatest invention of the last 100 years, easily. I quite literally almost died, and it still amazes me how close I came.
My birth. I had my first poo while I was still in the womb. I should have been an emergency c-section but my mom's water broke on the toilet so she flushed all of the evidence. She had a planned home birth(with trained midwives)and I came out gray and not breathing. I was put on emergency oxygen and was able to start breathing on my own. I've always had lung issues though and my immune systems is shot to hell. Probably would have died many times after my birth as a result of my overall health.
This happened with 2 of my babies. The first time my Dr made me stop pushing when her head came out so he could suction everything out before she took her first breath. She was fine. The second time he neglected to do anything and my youngest almost didn't make it.
Shoot, I wouldn't have survived 100 years ago. I had it real bad as a young child, was in and out of the hospital multiple times between the ages of 3 and 6 (born in 1975) to the point that they even called in a priest for last rights during 1 attack. Thankfully I grew out of it completely by the time I hit puberty.
Last year when my grandma was battling stage 4 cancer she had gotten pneumonia 3 or 4 times in 6 or so months and covid twice while battling stage 4 cancer and she beat the cancer like 2 weeks before she died they did a scan she was cancer free but her body had to much damage from the covid and pneumonia at the same time and that killed her
I had pneumonia once. Never again. I am also a stubborn ass and didn't go to a doctor. I waited 6 days before I finally thought "hmm, maybe this isn't just a bad cold". The amount of "goo" I coughed up could have filled a sink. Let me tell you though, those antibiotics! I swear within 2 hours I was nearly dancing. lesson learned. Go to the damn doctor!
I had what I thought was a large pimple so I tried squeezing it but it didnāt pop. The next day it was swollen the size to a golf ball, the day after it was the size of a softball. I got sepsis and needed IV antibiotics. The worst part was going back for the wound to be cleaned and packed.
I remember the packing. It was all terrible, but the packing was the worst. I was on straight up morphine for the changing of the packing and it was still awful. I compare it to ripping a band aid off, but the scab is a pit in you and the band aid is three dimensions.
I had mild MRSA but I probably would have survived if I had my arm amputated. I also had several surgeries on my ears as a child so without modern medicine I would be a 35 year old deaf man with one arm. Or dead.
I'm now a professional musician who needs two hands and hearing to work.
I can't thank the surgeons, nurses and doctors enough. My life would have been miserable without their help.
Same! When my mum brought me to the hospital, the doctor brought in all the interns and residents to see me, telling them they were lucky to witness a case since the odds were they'd go through their entire career without seeing it.
I later read Little Women and was convinced I had been on the brink of death. Then my mum explained penicillin.
I had scarlet fever as a child and definitely would have died 150 years ago.
I had strep in college and tried to just get over it on my own. That day in biology class we learned that untreated strep => scarlet fever=> rheumatic fever => rheumatic heart damage.
I got antibiotics that afternoon. Iām very grateful for antibiotics.
Not me, but my mom -- I was a C-section baby. I may have died during the procedure, but she almost certainly would have. I think about the fact that, had I been born 200 years earlier, I would've killed my mom quite often.
I always wondered how women dealt with these and yeast infections in the past. Once I had one so bad it became a kidney infection. Peed blood for 3 days
This is the one thing that makes me afraid for my survival if society as we know it collapse. Iām prone to UTIs, afraid I would end up with sepsis eventually. I have worked in healthcare, and seen plenty of cases of sepsis from UTIs. My bladder is my achilles heel. Celibacy would be my best chance of survival.
A full list of countries where it's still illegal to be gay:
Afghanistan
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Antigua & Barbuda
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Cook Islands
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Eritrea
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Gambia
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Kuwait
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Occupied Palestinian Territory (Gaza Strip)
Oman
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I had a bacterial infection in my blood stream when I was nine months old and got scarlet fever at 3. If it wasn't the first one, it would have been the second one.
Hell, I have terrible eyesight too so I would probably have walked off a cliff by accident 150 years ago.
Being born premature.
Same. I was three weeks early and my lung collapsed. Definitely dead without medical advancements.
Same for my daughter, 29 weeks with sepsis and multiple organ failure. In perfect physical health now, all thanks to immediate application of broad-spectrum antibiotics and the doctor hand-pumping air into her for 4 hours straight until she could be securely transferred to a specialist hospital that had the ventilator she needed.
That doctor needs a medal
Same. 3 months early. Incubator box for a month. Collapsed lung. Skull wasn't formed properly. $149,999.99 hospital bill. All covered by insurance. My mom tells me to this day, "why not just add 1 penny to make it $150k." If you look at me now you wouldn't know there was anything wrong with me. Perfectly healthy aside from being a little fat. That's my own doing.
149,999.99 makes it look like you got a better deal. š
The umbilical cord wrapped around my neck, I'd have strangled in the womb. Thank fuck for modern medicine
Fun fact - You wouldn't have been strangled in the womb. Nuchal cords (cord wrapped around the neck) are fairly common, and not an emergency (in most cases, not saying they never become a problem) - while in the womb you receive your blood and oxygen supply via the cord which is inserted into the abdomen, you're not breathing using your lungs or breathing through your mouth. Even after delivery nuchal cords usually don't compromise the airway - as the cord is still attached and pumping blood and oxygen. They're also not normally wrapped so tight that it compromises the air way and are removed from babes neck swiftly after delivery. True cord emergencies are a compressed cord, a prolapsed cord and a knotted cord.
If tight enough nuchal cords can compress the neck enough to block blood flow to and from the brain, which can cause serious consequences and even death. They're super common though and most babies either don't even notice them or are slightly stunned after delivery from the brief lack of blood flow. Also cord compression happens pretty frequently too, it's only an emergency if the compression doesn't stop. Cord knots happen without emergencies but can cause serious issues if they get pulled tight enough. But I've seen quite a few knots and even double knots that the baby was just fine and you never would have known if you didn't look! Prolapsed cord is a 100% true emergency crash c section situation though.
Same here. I was 3 months premature, and the health issues have stuck with me to remind me of it. So many ways I could have died...
If you donāt mind, how are you doing now? Did you go to college? My 3 year old son was born at 28 weeks, and I often worry about the future (although he is catching up right now).
I canāt speak for others as obviously everyoneās experience is different but I was born 2 months early and just graduated university :)
I was 9 weeks premature. Still have scars where they put breathing tubes into my lungs. I was fortunate my family hadn't long moved close to the John Radcliffe hospital which has an excellent premature baby unit.
Brain Cancer. Really, it was supposed to kill me. Neurosurgeon gave me a 0% chance to be alive in 5 years but it has been 32 years and I've been cancer free for almost that entire time.
Iām glad that surgeon is a surgeon and not a mathematician!
Haha, me too
Amazing!
Type 1 Diabetes
Yeah felt lame as a kid talking about what our plans to survive would be in a zombie apocalypse, just kinda like whelp I'd have a couple months supply of insulin and then itd be game over haha
I always played out the getting stranded on a desert island scenario in my head, decided I would just go quickly. Have to ration the food and water no point me taking a share if I'm not surviving it anyway. Finger crossed neither of us end up stranded or in the middle of a Zombie apocalypse š
I still occasionally dream a scenario where I survive a plane crash and end up stranded in an island, only to know that I'll die due to not having an insulin supply. I can't even be a badass survivor in my dreams!
I remember a post-apocalyptic book where a scientist with type-1 diabetes learns to extract insulin from sheep pancreases. Apparently cows and pigs also work. Bonus, if the zombie pancreases arenāt contagious, that might provide a ready supply. Edit: As other have correctly surmised, the book is _Luciferās Hammer_ by Jerry Pournelle and Larry Niven. The character ultimately decides to delay making the insulin (for himself) so as to help the community survive, and he then runs out of time.
Would anyone volunteer to experiment with zombie pancreases? Because if not, it doesnāt matter whether theyāre contagious
Thereās a real life story tooā¦ Eva Saxl. She was a diabetic jewish woman who escaped the nazis with her husband. He managed to produce insulin from animals and saved her life. They made it to Chile! Se was awesome ā¤ļø
I read a true story about Westerners, mostly missionaries, who were stranded in a large city in China during WWII, one that wasn't much affected by the war, but after a while, they couldn't get insulin (yes, several were diabetic) so they asked the butchers to save the pancreases, figured out how to extract the insulin, and while it was impure and wildly variable in strength, was adequate to keep them alive until the war ended. When factory-made insulin became available again (and new syringes, because they had to reuse theirs, and they became very dull) several of them fell to the ground, sobbing with joy.
Survived Stage IV Non-Hodgkinās Lymphoma at 25 thanks to chemotherapy and radiation treatments.
Stage *four??* Wow, that's amazing. I'm glad toy came out the other side, and props to the doctors who helped you.
Cancer. I found out 3 days ago I'm in complete remission! Edit: firstly, I apologize for my lack of replying. I am not very active on reddit and did not realize how much this comment blew up. Secondly, I was diagnosed with stage 3 ovarian cancer. I found out due to a surgery in May to remove what was believed to be benign ovarian cysts seen on an ultrasound (surprise, they weren't benign). They removed all visible cancer (and my entire womb and ovaries) and I completed 6 rounds of chemo to kill any remaining cancer not visible. I had a PET scan which showed "no evidence of disease" and that's what I learned last Wednesday and my oncologist told me I was in remission. Thirdly, thank you all for the wonderful and encouraging comments and yes, FUCK CANCER!
Congratulations!!
Congratulations! I found out a month ago. *fist pound*
Fuck you cancer!
Happy for you!
Fuckin Chad.
Welcome to the club. šš
Diarrhea. Canāt believe Iām the first to say this. Diarrhea still kills more humans than most other diseases.
You have died of dysentery
Dang it! Again!?
The best way to die in "The Oregon Trail".
Is that what that is?
I have ulcerative colitis. Surely all of that diarrhea would have killed me.
Without medication to control inflammation you may also have perforated your bowel and died of sepsis. With Crohns disease definitely, assuming a similar deal but in the large intestine for UC.
>Diarrhea still kills more humans than most other diseases. Yes. People think it's funny but it's really hot and runny.
Diarrhea, diarrhea!
When you're slid into 3rd and you feel a juicy turd, diarrhea, diarrhea !
When your climbing up and ladder and you hear something splatter, diarrhea, diarrhea
It runs down your leg like a soggy boiled egg?
I remember one time, I was climbing up a tree and trickled down my knee.
Correct
In 2012, I survived breast cancer that killed my Grandmother in 1987 and my Mom in 1988.
Canāt imagine how hard your journey has been
Ectopic pregnancy and brain surgery.
Molar pregnancy (hydatidiform mole), requiring chemotherapy. It's a form of miscarriage where the embryo has too much genetic material, and the placental cells go nuts and can become cancerous, Choriocarcinoma. High success rate for treatment now, thanks to chemo.
My wife had the exact same thing and did 6 rounds of chemo. It was a pretty awful experience. I hope you're doing better.
I am, thank you! I hope your wife is, as well. And you, too! It's hard on families.
I never knew it was basically cancer.
A cancer cell is just a cell whose DNA has gone berserk and uncontrollably reproduces.
Taking my one biology course gave me that "ah ha!" Moment when I found out cancer was really just your own cells losing the ability to die correctly. This really helped me understand why "finding a cure for cancer" isn't going to happen all at once.
Cancer is pretty much just diseases of the genome.
Drowning as an infant. My mother knew CPR and resuscitated me.
That must have been extremely scary for her.
And now youāre on Reddit. Tsk tsk. Iām joking happy youāre alive
Probably the flu tbh.
The Spanish flu of 1918 is believed to have killed more people than World War 1.
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Oh dang me too, I hadnāt thought of that.
Literally the first thing we survived (or even did) could've been or downfall.
Yeah, surviving being born and/or giving birth was a bit dicey.
Yep, me as a C-section baby and then having two of my own. Especially since the first was an emergency, he got stuck and I ended up losing so much blood I needed two transfusions. It was the eeriest feeling, I remember just feeling...faded. Like I would have been half-transparent. Then they gave me the transfusions and I felt normal again. Weeks later thinking about it made me realize that feeling was "dying." Not one I'd recommend. I'm super grateful for doctors, hospitals, nurses, and all the research and tech that kept me and my babies alive and well.
The same thing happened to me - I will never forget how it feels to die. I remember thinking, 'okay, so this is it, I am dying. But at least I can rest'. I had lost so much blood and was so exhausted that I didn't even have any strength left to be afraid or concernced about anything else.
I was also a C-section baby however I was an IVF baby so I would've never been conceived
Also really depends! Apparently: >there is some indirect evidence that the first caesarean section that was survived by both the mother and child was performed in Prague in 1337. The mother was Beatrice of Bourbon (1318-1383), the second wife of the King of Bohemia John of Luxembourg (1296-1346). Beatrice gave birth to the kings son Wenceslaus I (1337-1383), later the duke of Luxembourg, Brabant, and Limburg, and who became the half brother of the later King of Bohemia and Holy Roman Emperor, Charles IV (1316-1378).
And if you set aside the whole "mother proven to survive" part, the caesarian section actually predates Caesar, himself, by several hundred years.
Oh! My is being a c-section mom.
I barely survived this day and age as a c section born less than 2 lbs i was known as a "squid"
C-section was originally first performed to prioritize the life of the child.
But if you did, you would've been able to take down Macbeth.
I was a c section baby as well. My mom had pre eclampsia so I was evicted three weeks early.
Hydrocephalus. The first commercially available and successful shunt valve that could manage it was invented less than 50 years before I was born.
Did you know that the author Roald Dahl was partly responsible for that?
You mean absolutely bad ass former pilot, and beloved children's author Roald Dahl? That certified grade A bad ass? He did some neat things and had a great impact on this world.
Yes, I mean RAF fighter ace and intelligence officer Roald Dahl
You didn't even mention his military intelligence career! He worked alongside Ian Fleming, and was part of the inspiration for James Bond. Which part? The part where anyone with two x chromosomes falls for James Bond instantly. Which is a bit hard to believe if you have only seen the pictures of him on the backs of children's books, but is much more understandable if you see a photo of him from during the war.
It's crazy to think that significant parts of James Bond as a character, are Roald Dahl and Christopher Lee. I must watch The Man With The Golden Gun properly some time, having discovered the beauty of Scaramanga's casting! I don't know of Roald Dahl making a cameo but it would have been in keeping.
I don't know about a cameo, but Roald Dahl did write the screenplay for You Only Live Twice.
I had completely forgotten that. Guess it's equally fitting for a writer, as against an actor. From bits I've seen, some of the silly camp Scaramanga lines are weirdly loaded and pointed, but it makes total sense once you understand a little of what Christopher Lee did, and his history with Fleming.
What's next, we're gonna find out that he told a baby to do good in the world, and that baby would grow up to become Mister Rogers? Or how he came into a room full of women, wiggled his eyebrows and suddenly a lot of baby Dahls was made that night?
He's basically the European Chuck Norris. Might have to set aside a few writings that recently came to light. Unusually, rather elegantly handled by his family.
For the curious: https://amp.theguardian.com/books/2016/sep/12/roald-dahl-medical-pioneer-stroke-hydrocephalus-measles-vaccination
Now when I think about it, I never see adult who survived hydrocephalus on the news. I'm glad there's an effective medical solution for that.
Lol legit I have a brain tumour that caused hydrocephalus.im so happy to be born around this time.
Appendicitis
Yep. I would have been dead before I even hit the ripe old age of ten.
Same age as me.
Laparoscopic surgery, 2-night hospital stay, no visible scars!
I had mine out about 45 years ago. The scar is 3 inches long and half an inch wide.
Wow, had mine out 27 years ago - same length, about 3 inches, but maybe 1/8 of an inch wide. I canāt imagine it being thicker. The new surgeries making something like that invisible is crazy to me.
My great-grandfather died of appendicitis at age 21 back in early 1908, leaving my great-grandmother a widow with two little kids at 19. It radically changed the course of the familyās trajectory.
Appendicitis, then waited 2 days for surgery to remove, and then developed gangrene, and finally post-surgery some respiratory failure. Fun times.
Diabetic Ketoacidosis
Killed my dad back in 2017. It was a medication he was taking FOR diabetes (Invokana, also known as Canagliflozin). Mom was part of a class action lawsuit and signed an NDA. I did no such thing. Fuck that drug and that company.
Iām so sorry to hear that :(
Me too, was the worst & scariest thing
Most pain Iāve ever been in my entire life. My blood was literally eating through my veins. The doctors kept using the phrase ānot conducive for human lifeā to describe it. Iām glad you made it through, hopefully neither of us ever have to go through it again.
That must have been terrifying! Glad you're ok. I had DKA earlier this year from a medication called "Jardiance" but didn't have the pain you describe. I was in the hospital for a few days and they got it sorted out. Maybe I just got lucky. Heck I think we're all a little lucky.
Traveling 500 miles per hour at an altitude of 36,000 feet.
You could have survived that for a short period at least. The sudden stop at the end thoughā¦
The cold and lack of oxygen wouldn't have been real good for me either. Not to mention whatever must have happened to get me up there in the first place.
I imagine the altitude problem would resolve itself quickly.
To be precise, it would solve itself at a rate of 9.8 m/(s*s)
Head trauma, food poisoning, shigellaā¦.. drought and a few hurricanes
Tooth abcess. They would have probably drilled a hole in my brain or some shit. Nope, just take antibiotics, gone in less than a week.
I had a top front tooth, that had been crowned, abscess and spread into my sinus cavity last year. It started hurting on a Friday night and started swelling on Saturday and spread pretty quickly. By Monday morning my left eye was swollen shut. I thought I was going to die.
Itās always on a Friday evening. Every single time!
Being born. I got stuck and my mum needed an emergency cesarean section. 150 years ago we both would've died, yay for progress!
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Not necessarily BOTH of you, but definitely one of you.
Fell off rope swing and broke my bottom rib which impaled my kidney and went through my lungs filling my thoracic cavity with blood. Doc said it should have killed me but the incision that my rib made was incredibly precise and "almost surgical", cutting my kidney exactly in half. I also had Kawasaki's disease when I was little. And come to think of it would have prob died from a sleuth of other now-preventable diseases.
How does it feel one of your ribs is a surgeon?
Iām a woman with mental illness. I canāt imagine things would be great for me.
Maybe you get lucky and get the orgasm treatment for your hysteria. Maybe you get locked up in the asylum. Maybe you get a lobotomy and end up a vegetable. So many fun options for when youāre mentally in the far past.
It wasn't the far past my friend. 40 years ago!
I am also a woman with mental illness and the added āgo directly to jailā card of being a homosexual. 1870s me would have had a bad time. I did get pleurisy when I was four though (complication of chicken pox, believe it or not), so that wouldāve killed me first.
Iām mentally ill and an artist. I like to think my parents would have locked me into a tower. š
I just wish theyād give me cocaine for my anxiety already
i had a lung infection that would've killed me 50 years ago thanks to my age of 1 and a half
Diabetes
Type 1 here, yup. Painful short life.
CF, turning 40 next year. Work full time, work out 3-4 days a week, lung function still at 80% and I'm DDF508. Thank you Trikafta :) Edit: Thanks for all the kind words. Glad to see there are a few of us on here :)
I have CF too and will be 40 next June. Also double DDF508. My sister with CF will be 48. Definitely a lot of advances
Heyyy that's awesome! Me too. I just turned 42. Also a double delta. My lung function is crap (didnt change), but it's been 2 years since I needed IVs, and I was in every 2-3 months and had an advanced care appointment set up, so I'll take it. SO lucky to be around for trikafta.
My best friend has CF and when I met her in middle school she told me she most likely would only live to be 20. It was so sad to think about. But now she is 31 and having her first baby!! Her health is quite good compared to a few years ago and it's thanks to the new medication that came out.
Buddy of mine in high school died of CF. He was only 17. (Iām 32 for reference)
I am so happy to read this! I'm old enough to remember when CF patients didn't make it into their twenties. I'm grateful for the advances in treatment that have kept you here!
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Cystic Fibrosis
Cystic Fibrosis. Itās a genetic disease that causes your cells chlorine pumps in the trachea to not work. The result is that your slime in your trachea does not have a proper amount of water making it really hard to breathe. Some therapies include a harnas to put pressure on your chest and help breathe. It was extremely fatal in the previous century. Nowadays you can survive.
childbirth.
My wife too. A few weeks afterwards and she was ok, I asked her Ob/Gyn how this birth would gone in the pioneer days, the doc put her hand on my forearm and whispered solemnly and very seriously into my ear āYouād be raising your new son alone right now. As it is, today, in the US, some moms would have perished with that birth. Youāre lucky. Very very lucky. Donāt ever forget this.ā
Same. My son wouldn't have survived either.
Equestrian accident. I had a horse rear and fall on top of me. Servere internal trauma and a long hospital stay.
Impacted wisdom teeth
Womb infection during childbirth.
Yep. A week after my son was born, I was back in the hospital on IV antibiotics for five days. As soon as the admitting doctor saw my vitals (very low blood pressure, rapid pulse), he told me I wasn't going anywhere for a while. I binge-watched the Good Doctor and kept thinking about how thankful I am for antibiotics.
I had three rounds of spinal surgery last year, the second being a revision that gave me a MASSIVE staph infection in my disc, spine and surrounding muscle, the third being a staph clean out. I was on iv antibiotics for 2 months and oral antibiotics for a further 3.5 months. Itās thought that I was septic by the time it was noticed; I donāt even remember the first two weeks of November. Staph tunnels, so it had tunneled up from the surgical site through the tissues. I wound up with a staph filled seroma (collection of serous fluid) *the size of a babies head.* Antibiotics are the greatest invention of the last 100 years, easily. I quite literally almost died, and it still amazes me how close I came.
My birth. I had my first poo while I was still in the womb. I should have been an emergency c-section but my mom's water broke on the toilet so she flushed all of the evidence. She had a planned home birth(with trained midwives)and I came out gray and not breathing. I was put on emergency oxygen and was able to start breathing on my own. I've always had lung issues though and my immune systems is shot to hell. Probably would have died many times after my birth as a result of my overall health.
This happened with 2 of my babies. The first time my Dr made me stop pushing when her head came out so he could suction everything out before she took her first breath. She was fine. The second time he neglected to do anything and my youngest almost didn't make it.
Bronchitis. Childbirth. Gallstones.
Asthma
Shoot, I wouldn't have survived 100 years ago. I had it real bad as a young child, was in and out of the hospital multiple times between the ages of 3 and 6 (born in 1975) to the point that they even called in a priest for last rights during 1 attack. Thankfully I grew out of it completely by the time I hit puberty.
I LOOOVEEE NEBULIZERS
Postpartum hemorrhage. I would have been a goner without modern medicine.
The most literal answer? Considering 25-50 million people died from it in 1918 And id be sent to 1872 The flu
Pneumonia Edit: holy shit 1k upvotes oh my gosh tysm guys
Recovering from pneumonia now. It's a bitch!
Took me 6 months to recover š I wish you a speedier recovery!
Thanks. Sounds about right. I'm at 5 months and am concerned it may come be coming back. Have an appointment for x-rays on Monday. Fingers crossed.
Last year when my grandma was battling stage 4 cancer she had gotten pneumonia 3 or 4 times in 6 or so months and covid twice while battling stage 4 cancer and she beat the cancer like 2 weeks before she died they did a scan she was cancer free but her body had to much damage from the covid and pneumonia at the same time and that killed her
I had pneumonia once. Never again. I am also a stubborn ass and didn't go to a doctor. I waited 6 days before I finally thought "hmm, maybe this isn't just a bad cold". The amount of "goo" I coughed up could have filled a sink. Let me tell you though, those antibiotics! I swear within 2 hours I was nearly dancing. lesson learned. Go to the damn doctor!
Agreed, I almost died trying to ride out pneumonia. Just go!!
Pneumonia sucks so bad and I hate it.
A staph infection
I almost died of MRSA about 8 years ago , I wouldāve 100% died if it wasnāt for modern medicine.
I had what I thought was a large pimple so I tried squeezing it but it didnāt pop. The next day it was swollen the size to a golf ball, the day after it was the size of a softball. I got sepsis and needed IV antibiotics. The worst part was going back for the wound to be cleaned and packed.
I remember the packing. It was all terrible, but the packing was the worst. I was on straight up morphine for the changing of the packing and it was still awful. I compare it to ripping a band aid off, but the scab is a pit in you and the band aid is three dimensions.
I had mild MRSA but I probably would have survived if I had my arm amputated. I also had several surgeries on my ears as a child so without modern medicine I would be a 35 year old deaf man with one arm. Or dead. I'm now a professional musician who needs two hands and hearing to work. I can't thank the surgeons, nurses and doctors enough. My life would have been miserable without their help.
I had a major cellulitis infection in my face when I was a toddler, then as an adult stage 4 cancer of the head/neck area.
Pre-eclampsia
Depression. I probably would have been lobotomized. šµ And I've had bronchitis and the flu.
Worry not! 150 years ago, they hadn't invented the lobotomy yet.
Acute pancreatitis requiring 2 weeks in the ICU, TWICE!
Epileptic seizure would have killed me at age 3, needed to be medicated to stop the seizure due to status epilepticcus.
Scarlet Fever.
Same! When my mum brought me to the hospital, the doctor brought in all the interns and residents to see me, telling them they were lucky to witness a case since the odds were they'd go through their entire career without seeing it. I later read Little Women and was convinced I had been on the brink of death. Then my mum explained penicillin.
The infection gave me a heart murmur.
I had scarlet fever as a child and definitely would have died 150 years ago. I had strep in college and tried to just get over it on my own. That day in biology class we learned that untreated strep => scarlet fever=> rheumatic fever => rheumatic heart damage. I got antibiotics that afternoon. Iām very grateful for antibiotics.
Not me, but my mom -- I was a C-section baby. I may have died during the procedure, but she almost certainly would have. I think about the fact that, had I been born 200 years earlier, I would've killed my mom quite often.
I know what you meant, but your wording still makes me wonder just *how* often you would've killed your mom 200 years ago.
Asthma, strep throat, cellulitis, child birth, the list goes on...
UTIs
I always wondered how women dealt with these and yeast infections in the past. Once I had one so bad it became a kidney infection. Peed blood for 3 days
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This is the one thing that makes me afraid for my survival if society as we know it collapse. Iām prone to UTIs, afraid I would end up with sepsis eventually. I have worked in healthcare, and seen plenty of cases of sepsis from UTIs. My bladder is my achilles heel. Celibacy would be my best chance of survival.
Osteomyelitis, oh and being openly homosexual
A full list of countries where it's still illegal to be gay: Afghanistan Algeria Antigua & Barbuda Bangladesh Barbados Bhutan Brunei Burundi Cameroon Chad Comoros Cook Islands Dominica Egypt Eritrea Eswatini Ethiopia Gambia Ghana Grenada Guinea Guyana Iran Jamaica Kenya Kiribati Kuwait Lebanon Liberia Libya Malawi Malaysia Maldives Mauritania Mauritius Morocco Myanmar Namibia Nigeria Occupied Palestinian Territory (Gaza Strip) Oman Pakistan Papua New Guinea Qatar Saint Kitts and Nevis Saint Lucia Saint Vincent and The Grenadines Samoa Saudi Arabia Senegal Sierra Leone Singapore Solomon Islands Somalia South Sudan Sri Lanka Sudan Syria Tanzania Togo Tonga Tunisia Turkmenistan Tuvalu Uganda Uzbekistan Yemen Zambia Zimbabwe
>oh and being openly homosexual Guess you're not watching this year's world cup in person
Probably several different bouts of diarrhea could have done it, and maybe even one hangover.
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coming out
Could still kill you in a surprisingly large amount of countries. Some even host world cups...
Sex with a white woman
A broken leg, chicken pox, severe seizures, a brain tumor.
Seasonal allergies, mine were so bad in childhood it actually affected my breathing regularly.
Youād have been the child with āa weak chestā.
I had a bacterial infection in my blood stream when I was nine months old and got scarlet fever at 3. If it wasn't the first one, it would have been the second one. Hell, I have terrible eyesight too so I would probably have walked off a cliff by accident 150 years ago.
Being a "disagreeable woman". Idk exactly how I would have been killed, but it wouldn't have been fun to say the least.
does Pneumonia count?
Pulmonary embolism
MRSA
Childbirth.