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What Is The Worst Illness You Have Ever Had?
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When I had life threatening pneumonia, it changed the way I look at life. I used to take it for granted, now I think of it as a gift. So whats the worst illness you've ever had?
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After I had my youngest children (twins) I was really ill - fainting, all the skin came off my hands and feet, I felt like I was dying. I had emergency heart tests, dermatological tests, blood tests, all sorts, even caught one doc using Wikipedia to look up my symptoms. In the end they came up with Kawasaki disease (but only children are supposed to get it).
As a child I used to contract tonsillitis twice a year. My GP was against tonsillectomy. "He'll grow out of it" he told my mother. Well I never did. When I was 21 I developed "Quinsy". This is not to be confused with the Los Angeles Medical Examiner famously played by Jack Klugman in the 1970s TV series. It is a serious and acute inflammation of the tonsils which, if left unchecked, can sometimes prove fatal because it blocks one's airways. With a temperature of about 104 I has to get a taxi to the local A&E where a surgeon lanced both my tonsils there and then - no anaesthetic, no nothing. Just "open wide" and a scalpel was used to cut my tonsils and relieve the swelling. He almost certainly saved my life.
A few months later I had to have my tonsils removed. This is not a pleasant experience once you reach adulthood. I watched three lots of kids come and go seeing them eat their jelly and ice cream then playing football at the end of my bed whilst I lay there on a drip for about ten days. I would not wish that on anybody
A few months later I had to have my tonsils removed. This is not a pleasant experience once you reach adulthood. I watched three lots of kids come and go seeing them eat their jelly and ice cream then playing football at the end of my bed whilst I lay there on a drip for about ten days. I would not wish that on anybody
....sorry sherrard didn't mean to be flippant! Just got a ZZR! checked it out sounds nasty for the saucepan lids. I had a strangulated hernia when I was 6 months old, new nowt about it but I do have the scar! Laterly the worst I've had is a bout of celulitis felt strange more than anything, hot and cold at the same time weird!
