Awful flu at the age of 7 and then two years in a row at 28 and 29, both years running a fever over 104 at one point.

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Oct 7, 2021
7:53:44pm

specsauce All-American

Sickest I’ve ever been. Likely would have died had we not had some of the therapeutics and knowledge we do today.

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specsauce

Previous username: dukehauser
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Joined: Sep 19, 2002
Last login: Apr 30, 2024
Total posts: 11,718 (171 FO)

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Time

In 1850, with your health history are you still alive? If not, what killed you?

ReyOso

10/7/21 7:09pm

Appendix would have gotten me.

allaboutthegainz

10/7/21 7:11pm

No sir. That would make TNT 171 years old

TNT

10/7/21 7:12pm

with the wisdom of a 172-year-old.

squidmark

10/7/21 7:13pm

Absolutely

TNT

10/7/21 7:14pm

RE: In 1850, with your health history are you still alive? If not, what killed

squidmark

10/7/21 7:12pm

my main concerns have arisen by the modern lifestyle, so it's difficult to say

SalmonOfCapistrano

10/7/21 7:12pm

I think this is an understated reason for our mental illness challenges.

ReyOso

10/7/21 7:15pm

Less exercise and much worse diet

TNT

10/7/21 7:26pm

Jaundice would’ve got me as a baby

BYU TO THE MOON

10/7/21 7:13pm

Appendix at the age of 30

HiLife

10/7/21 7:13pm

Same.

Conan

10/7/21 7:16pm

Dead a few times over. Appendix, Kidney and heart.

Turnpike Lane

10/7/21 7:13pm

I’m dead. Either a sinus infection at age 14 spreads to my brain or a heart

jkccoug

10/7/21 7:14pm

I may have died during delivery because the umbilical was around my neck. I would've died of a seizure as a toddler.

byuluvr

10/7/21 7:14pm

Dead: shrapnel wound, cancer, broken heart

PickleButton

10/7/21 7:14pm

No, birth.

fbguru

10/7/21 7:15pm

Ligma

DiamondDog

10/7/21 7:15pm

RE: Ligma

BYU TO THE MOON

10/7/21 7:16pm

I’ve never had to go to the hospital other than for sports related injuries

Food Snob

10/7/21 7:15pm

Pneumonia

Nat Gas Man

10/7/21 7:16pm

I've never been to the hospital or even taken a prescription medication. So I

JuicyJam

10/7/21 7:16pm

Holy moley. Were you born on Krypton?

TNT

10/7/21 7:17pm

Essential Oils FTW!

squidmark

10/7/21 7:19pm

Are you 12?

NewYorkCougar

10/7/21 7:30pm

I don’t believe you’ve never had a prescription, everyone’s had an antibiotic

Doofenshmirtz

10/7/21 7:37pm

Not that I recall but you could be right.

JuicyJam

10/7/21 8:35pm

I'd be missing half my teeth prob, but alive and grinnin'

Pro Logic

10/7/21 7:16pm

Pro logic in 1850

BYU TO THE MOON

10/7/21 7:20pm

Not as much sugar back then, so you might be OK.

HiLife

10/7/21 7:26pm

I’m dead of an intussusception at 7 months. Almost didn’t make it anyway.

cougfanblue

10/7/21 7:17pm

Dead. Melanoma.

Hank Rearden

10/7/21 7:17pm

Meningitis at 1 yr would have finished me off

txblue

10/7/21 7:19pm

Asthma… I’m dead

Cougar86

10/7/21 7:19pm

I had Patent ductus arteriosus. I would be dead at a early age.

JohnnyC

10/7/21 7:20pm

According to a very rudimentary video game we played in Elem Sch, either dyptheria or cholera

SingleStrapBackpack

10/7/21 7:21pm

RE: According to a very rudimentary video game we played in Elem Sch, either

squidmark

10/7/21 7:28pm

Haha, yes....I meant dysentery!

SingleStrapBackpack

10/7/21 7:44pm

I at least wouldnt have torn my ACL playing basketball.

mottman

10/7/21 7:24pm

I was a premie (5 lbs). Had pneumonia twice before 2 years old.

fulano

10/7/21 7:29pm

Pneumonia may have gotten me a few years back. 100% would have taken my HCBW.

Marvelous

10/7/21 7:30pm

Likely dead. I was in a cycling accident and did the old rib through the lung trick. The doctors patched me up great and

slappy

10/7/21 7:30pm

On the other hand, you'd never have gotten in a cycling crash to begin with

SingleStrapBackpack

10/7/21 7:45pm

Seeing how my immune system dealt with COVID, people at that time would have

panacablue

10/7/21 7:30pm

Dead at age 3 of pneumonia.

NewYorkCougar

10/7/21 7:31pm

Myocardial infarction

Adrielle

10/7/21 7:34pm

Is that when the mods suspend you for something innocuous?

TNT

10/7/21 7:39pm

Dead shortly after birth....

jpesk2

10/7/21 7:39pm

Alive

Lieutenant America

10/7/21 7:45pm

Appendicitis

Backcountry

10/7/21 7:45pm

Asthma in early childhood

Kilgore Trout

10/7/21 7:50pm

Awful flu at the age of 7 and then two years in a row at 28 and 29, both years running a fever over 104 at one point.

specsauce

10/7/21 7:53pm

I think I would be alive still. I had a broken arm at 12, it was a clean break though. Setting it would have been

Tesla Coug

10/7/21 8:01pm

Dead from pneumonia.

cre1ghton

10/7/21 8:06pm

How many times would I have died? Age 1 pneumonia, Age 2 chainsaw to the head

Nat Gas Man

10/7/21 8:13pm

RE: How many times would I have died? Age 1 pneumonia, Age 2 chainsaw to the

BYU TO THE MOON

10/7/21 8:22pm

RE: How many times would I have died? Age 1 pneumonia, Age 2 chainsaw to the

Nat Gas Man

10/7/21 8:25pm

RE: How many times would I have died? Age 1 pneumonia, Age 2 chainsaw to the

BYU TO THE MOON

10/7/21 8:28pm

Chainsaw to the head at 2? Do tell.

Tesla Coug

10/7/21 8:40pm

You need to buy the book 🙂

Nat Gas Man

10/7/21 8:58pm

What book?

BYU TO THE MOON

10/7/21 9:04pm

Wow, that's crazy. Glad you made it. Thanks for sharing.

Tesla Coug

10/7/21 9:07pm

Childbirth

m0resn0w

10/7/21 8:27pm

Died from infections the antibiotics stopped.

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