Have you ever had a serious illness and thought you would die from it?

Question

I had cancer when I was 24 and I really thought I was going to die..........my doctor actually had me call in my family for an exploratory surgery because she did not think I would make it off the operating table! It has changed me alot, how did your experience change you?

Answer 1

I had cancer when I was 19

Answer 2

Theres this thing called preventive medicine. Which is a medical term for probing and injecting you with things to try to find a problem they can medicate you for, or protect you from.

When i was five my wonderful dr, mr jackass-with-a-needle gave me the live culture meningitis vaccine. This was back in the 80's when the FDA was urging doctors to STOP USING it because it was actually infecting children and causing death in a higher percentile than they first calculated. It was in the gray period between pulling the medication and endorsing it.

Anyway, He told my mom it was required in order for me to start school. So she went along with it. I ended up with Meningitis, I had it for five days when she called the doctor and told him i wasnt walking and was extremely ill. It was a Saturday and his office was closed... he told her to wait until Monday, that i would be fine, and ABOVE ALL ELSE DO NOT TAKE ME TO THE HOSPITAL.

By sunday I was halucinating from fever, i wouldnt walk because my hit joint was being eaten by the infection, and my parents rushed me to childrens hospial.

It took them 6 hours to figure out what was wrong. i was double jointed, so they ruled out menengitis on account of my mobility.

All that to say, by the time they found the bacterial infection i had almost no hip left, they miraculously caught the infection just before it made it to my organs and spine. They had told my parents i would never walk again, i would need my hip removed and replaced, and one side of my body would always be smaller and weaker.

10 days later they couldnt understand how i was completely uneffected, aside from the complete lack of an immune system from all the antibiotic. The doctors said it was impossible. Yet here i am at 22, completely symetrical, and perfectly mobile.

If it werent for my praying familym and a God who heals I would be a cripple.

Answer 3

I was diagnosed with 3 kinds of pneumonia when I was 24. Spent a month in a coma and a month in rehab re-learning how to walk. The doctors only said afterwards that my chance of living was about 5%.

Of course its changed me! I still plan ahead, but now my life isn't based on the future, but on what I have right now.

Answer 4

Hi! Well one day I got VERY very ill. Food poisoning but extreme food poisoning. I actually believed I was going to die. I had trouble even moving, throwing up every 5 minutes even I hadn't had anything to eat, my skin got yellow, I was losing focus, I thought it was the end! Seriously!
But 2 days later I got better

Answer 5

Colon cancer last year. Coma for 5+ days, ICR for 5+ more days. Probably was good as dead. Pray brought me back. Not too many people have second chances so use yours wisely.

Answer 6

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Answer 7

Not that bad, although i was debilitate by pneumonia

Answer 8

nope

Answer 9

NO!!!