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The Medical Thread: We're experts on everything else; why not?

I feel good at 68 and consider myself in good health, but doctors have saved me from cancer 3 times and had my heart stop for minute and a half on the table before they brought me back. Last fall my hearing went from moderate loss to absolute stone deafness in about a month (very strange experience), and I will get cochlear implants this spring to restore a substantial amount of hearing. In the natural world I'd be a straggler, and the local predators would have taken me down by now. Medical science is indeed amazing. And I realize that is a problem in its own way.

Edit: That seems an insensitive post after reading DGF's. I can think of nothing more painful than losing a child.
 
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burd said:
I feel good at 68 and consider myself in good health, but doctors have saved me from cancer 3 times and had my heart stop for minute and a half on the table before they brought me back. Last fall my hearing went from moderate loss to absolute stone deafness in about a month (very strange experience), and I will get cochlear implants this spring to restore a substantial amount of hearing. In the natural world I'd be a straggler, and the local predators would have taken me down by now. Medical science is indeed amazing. And I realize that is a problem in its own way.

Edit: That seems an insensitive post after reading DGF's. I can think of nothing more painful than losing a child.
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I had an ER physician tell me once that the job of a physician was to argue with Darwin
 
Deutsche Gopher Fan said:
My friends baby went down for a nap this week and never woke up.

looks like SIDS but they aren’t likely to ever know.
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Absolutely devastating.
My condolences to that family.


But please, have them investigate the cause.
If there's something preventable (genetics, environmental, allergen) please find out so they don't suffer this type of loss again.
 
Jesus, that's awful.

A similar thing happened to a close friend's 3 month old, probably 4-5 years ago. Suddenly started siezing. They discovered that part of his lower intestine never developed fully. It necrotized, turned him septic, and he was effectively dead within a few hours. Life support kept him technically alive for a few days, but he had no chance of recovery and they pulled the plug.


The tiny casket at the wake was the worst thing I've ever seen.
 
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The Sicatoka said:
Absolutely devastating.
My condolences to that family.


But please, have them investigate the cause.
If there's something preventable (genetics, environmental, allergen) please find out so they don't suffer this type of loss again.
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Yeah, they’re looking. I had another friend this happened to years ago and despite the medical investigation, no clear answer ever came.

nothing makes the family feel any better, I guess? No way to feel good here
 
Swansong said:
Jesus, that's awful.

A similar thing happened to a close friend's 3 month old, probably 4-5 years ago. Suddenly started siezing. They discovered that part of his lower intestine never developed fully. It necrotized, turned him septic, and he was effectively dead within a few hours. Life support kept him technically alive for a few days, but he had no chance of recovery and they pulled the plug.


The tiny casket at the wake was the worst thing I've ever seen.
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Not to make this about me, but I’m shook thinking about seeing a tiny casket this week. Never want to

Christ my phone suggests a casket gif when I type this
 
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Actually facing death certainly changes perspective on things doesn't it? Even the light hearted and mundane.
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Given my close calls, including a surgical wound that popped open and continued bleeding while I was sleeping in 2010,.a hemoglobin level of 6 in 2010, extreme weight swings, and a car accident where the difference between death/serious injury and minor pain was a matter of inches ...

"I never learned nothing by playing it safe I say fate should not tempt me"- Mary Chapin Carpenter
 
This is one of those things I won't even discuss with my wife. Her sister is 39 weeks pregnant and they've been trying for six years. So this kind of shit would just cause everyone in the room to start crying and having nightmares for a month.
 
Deutsche Gopher Fan said:
Yeah, they’re looking. I had another friend this happened to years ago and despite the medical investigation, no clear answer ever came.

nothing makes the family feel any better, I guess? No way to feel good here
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Just stay close. Be there. Don't offer any words, words are totally not up to this. Just be a source of love and warmth and comfort.
 
About 20 years ago, I was working as a pharmacy tech and doing live sound for club bands. One day I mixed a death metal band called Dying Fetus (they were kinda big in the underground scene at the time) and it was a big thing for me.

I show up to work the next day and two coworkers were asking me about the show... including what the band names were (they loved hearing death metal band names since they're always hilariously goofy). Before I answered, my brain screamed at me to consider the fact that of those two coworkers, one was 9 months pregnant and the other had miscarried twins maybe 6 months earlier.


I wouldn't say the name. They poked and prodded but I held firm. I'd have felt awful if I pinwheeled anyone into depression...
 
Swansong said:
About 20 years ago, I was working as a pharmacy tech and doing live sound for club bands. One day I mixed a death metal band called Dying Fetus (they were kinda big in the underground scene at the time) and it was a big thing for me.

I show up to work the next day and two coworkers were asking me about the show... including what the band names were (they loved hearing death metal band names since they're always hilariously goofy). Before I answered, my brain screamed at me to consider the fact that of those two coworkers, one was 9 months pregnant and the other had miscarried twins maybe 6 months earlier.


I wouldn't say the name. They poked and prodded but I held firm. I'd have felt awful if I pinwheeled anyone into depression...
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This is beginning of enlightenment. Well done!
 
Discovered one of the screws in my right foot is coming loose and is pushing up against the skin.

Plan is to call the orthopedic in the morning and see what the office recommends.
 
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