Would you be alive...

[Section_31]

...if you'd been born 100 years ago? And if so, what state would you be in?

 

I had cellulitis last year, a skin infection which is reasonably easy to treat with anti biotics, but before that was pretty much nailed on to be fatal, so I would have been dead at 34. Had I not, I'd have been in a pretty painful state anyway, as I had an impacted wisdom tooth which was basically upside down under my gum and getting constantly infected. I doubt very much they'd have been able to get it out back then, so at the very least I wouldn't have  been much fun at parties (not that I am any way). 

 

My mum would have been dead at 28 as she had gall stones. My Mrs's dad would have been dead in his early 50s from a heart attack, one of my best mates dead from appendicitis at 26. 

 

Makes you think doesn't it? How lucky we are at times. 

[Elite]

I had pneumonia last year, so would have been dead by 27.

[Bjornebye]

I'd be dead from sex with French women during the war. 

[RJ Fan club]

No major ones no. Maybe the abscess in the back tooth I had a few years ago might have worse, got more infected and would have been more painful

 

Maybe locked up in an asylum with depression? But tbh I don't think it ever got that bad.

 

So no, I think I'd still be going.

[Rico1304]

I had cellulitis when I was 24, started in my foot and then worked its way up my leg. Scary as fuck. That'd be me finished off in 1996.

[Lee909]

Id probably be close to dying in April while fighting the Hun at Ypres

[ZonkoVille77]

I'd survive cos I'm a resourceful bastid. Although I've captured bad back with 2 slipped discs so would have been limited. I'd have survived by selling my ass.

[The_Goat]

peritonitis aged 11. RIP

[Strontium]

Pretty sure I'd be alive. Although my grandfather would be a teenager, so that would be weird.

[Chairman Meow]

I had cellulitis when I was 24, started in my foot and then worked its way up my leg. Scary as fuck. That'd be me finished off in 1996.

 

Think of all the grannies who could have lived! 

 

Other illnesses excluded of course. 

[Lee909]

I'd survive cos I'm a resourceful bastid. Although I've captured bad back with 2 slipped discs so would have been limited. I'd have survived by selling my ass.

[Dr Nowt]

Forget 100 years, I'd be odds on to have had my 3 strikes during infancy a little over 50 ago; I've got Cystic Fibrosis.  We've seen significant medical advancement in the meanwhile which has helped the average life expectancy rise steadily, but even when I was born (37 now) it was a relatively little known, mostly childhood-only disease compared to now, and around 10 years of life was what my folks were told to expect from the seething little cunt they were presented with. 

 

Unlucky, world.  On reflection, I do appear to be unkillable, so I may well have had The Reaper off back then as well.

[Carvalho Diablo]

Had my first bout of gout around18 months ago. Therefore, I'd be Henry the 8th.

 

[Section_31]

I have flat feet too and have to wear special insoles, on the plus side I'd have escaped military conscription, but on the down side the chiropodist reckoned I'd 'throw my legs out' when I walked, which I thought sounded kind of cool. 

 

[Scooby Dudek]

Born premature in 1971. So much so I was given the last rites by the priest. It was a caesarean, which would have taken my mum out as well.   

Beat that, 100 years ago I would have been dead five weeks before I born.

[Rico1304]

Forget 100 years, I'd be odds on to have had my 3 strikes during infancy a little over 50 ago; I've got Cystic Fibrosis.  We've seen significant medical advancement in the meanwhile which has helped the average life expectancy rise steadily, but even when I was born (37 now) it was a relatively little known, mostly childhood-only disease compared to now, and around 10 years of life was what my folks were told to expect from the seething little cunt they were presented with. 

 

Unlucky, world.  On reflection, I do appear to be unkillable, so I may well have had The Reaper off back then as well.

I went to school with a lad with CF, he's dead now. Hope this helps.

[Section_31]

Born premature in 1971. So much so I was given the last rites by the priest. It was a caesarean, which would have taken my mum out as well.   

Beat that, 100 years ago I would have been dead five weeks before I born.

 

Fuck, just about old enough to get into Goodison  Park for a quid. 

[Bob]

I had double pneumonia 20 years ago when I was 13. We were talking about if just yesterday as it was due to that illness that I missed a no doubt concert and we couldn't believe that first no doubt album was 20 years ago.

 

I nearly died as it was, so I'd definitely have copped it back then

[Dr Nowt]

I went to school with a lad with CF, he's dead now. Hope this helps.

 

Sounds a bit soft to me.

[Section_31]

Sounds a bit soft to me.

 

Agreed, he should have got a hot water bottle and sweated it out. 

[Rico1304]

Sounds a bit soft to me.

I never touched him!

[Dr Nowt]

Agreed, he should have got a hot water bottle and sweated it out. 

 

Best pisstake pound-for-pound I've probably ever heard was on my first day at school, some lad turned to hear me wheezing and struggling for breath and just said "Alright, Darth Vader."  4 years old; what a fucking star. 

[Dr Nowt]

I never touched him!

 

Tell it to the judge, you're Gas's answer to Shipman, you.

[mattyq]

Aids hadn't been invented 100 years ago so a lot of people on here would have been better

I had scarlet fever when i was a teenager so well might have been dead

Other than that boringly healthy not that i'm complaining

[Chairman Meow]

Sounds a bit soft to me.

 

I knew someone with cystic fibrosis. 

 

I have no idea if they are still alive, however I can confirm that much like yourself they too were a seething little cunt.