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What Would You Have Died Of? [Oh, It’s Tuesday]
I forgot whether it was on another blog or in a book or maybe a newspaper article, but I was reading something in which a woman was talking about what she and her husband would have died of if not for modern medicine.
And I’m somewhat morbid, so that got me to thinking that if antibiotics hadn’t been invented, I might have died from my many bouts of strep throat as a child. If I’d waited for my daughter to come out on her own as opposed to inducing and cesareans hadn’t been invented, we probably would have both died in childbirth.
Though strangely enough, regarding getting hit by a car when I was nine and out riding my bike, even if I hadn’t had access to a hospital, I would have been fine. I was, of course, checked out for broken bones and concussions and all that jazz at the hospital, but other than being sore for weeks afterward, I was fine. Getting hit by that car didn’t and wouldn’t have killed me even if medicine hadn’t advanced.
But back to being morbid. How about you guys? What would have killed you if not for modern medicine?
I had scarlet fever when I was really young, that would have done me in, and after that-well-there’s about a million things that I would have died from otherwise.
Scarlet fever is a good one! Way more romantic sounding than severe strep throat.
Childbirth — though if not for modern medicine, I suppose I never would have been pregnant in the first place.
Childbirth — though if not for modern medicine, I suppose I never would have been pregnant in the first place.
Strep may not be sexy, but it’s everywhere. Mono or strep would have taken me down a number o’ times without antibiotics to help. Or I possibly could have died of embarrassment several times, but there really isn’t a medicine (aside from scotch) to help cure that.
This is a hard one because I don’t know if I would’ve even made it out of my mom alive… Then there are all those infections throughout childhood. I had a defunct kidney sac that exploded at age 18. For me, this brings up the question of how our modern times may be responsible for a lot of the sicknesses we get & have to cure that did not exist 50 years ago – at least not in the numbers we have today….