Ceasarean, and I don’t see shit without my glasses.
The pill saved me from suicide. Physically I would be fine, but I would definitely have killed myself.
Hmmm… hard to say.
On the face of it, maybe glasses? but if I really had to, I could probably even drive a car safely without them; and they’re been available for several hundred years now, so not exactly modern. I’ve never broken a limb nor had any internal parts removed, in fact no surgery at all.
Disease – a bout of relatively low-grade pneumonia about 10 years ago. Took antibiotics to help fight it, probably would have been sick as a dog for a week otherwise but probably would have survived.
And that’s about it. Well, except for everything else that never made it to the “really sick” stage due to vaccinations and/or early antibiotic intervention… Also, how much would modern living conditions matter? (E.g., the fact that when I had pneumonia I could put up my feet for several days in a warm, dry home with plenty of safe food and drink nearby!)
No, I have asthma. I guess if you want to quibble about how modern the tech.
Alive, but quadriplegic due to a neck injury. Now have fused vertebrae and a need to explain that BEEP going through metal detectors.
Same here with diabeetes - 35 would have done me - 19 for my older sister and 27 for my young brother - all with type one - lucky us for being born when we where…
My wife and daughter would not have made it past childbirth.
Honestly, I probably would be a ok. I’ve been ill (as in a tough cold with some fever) a few times, but i don’t think the antibiotics I got were lifesavers. Maybe the splinter I had as a kid, would’ve developed into gangrene… but that is sort of reaching for it.
Another ceasarean, and if I had survived birth my tachycardia would have killed me by about age 20 (I had quite a severe form, that’s now been cured for good by ablation).
In the extremely unlikely event I survived childhood without dying of pneumonia, I’d have died of blood poisoning at 23 or cancer at 28.
Yay medicine!
I had a ginormous baby (4,6 kg, over ten pounds) who, in addition to being large, als had a big and wide head. I had a planned C-section; I doubt I would have survived a natural birth.
If you had pre-eclampsia, prior to the 20th Century it was often, if not usually, fatal. If it progressed to eclampsia then only cure is to deliver the kid immediately, even today - prior to modern medicine that would have been a nightmare scenario.
[Nitpick] The “myopia genes” were every bit as common back then as now. What has changed is the environment. Conditions triggering myopia in susceptible individuals are much, much more common these days, hence the significant increase in the condition. [/Nitpick]
Me, assuming I would have survived the antibiotic-treated infections I had as a kid by eventually getting over them on my own (although at least one of the ear infections might have left me deaf, and the pneumonias would have been dicey at best) and the food allergies (which I might not have had in a filth-strewn, parasite ridden Medieval environment), the gastrointestinal illness I had in 2005 would have killed me without IV fluids. So, at best I would have made it to my 40’s.
No major illnesses, infections, trauma, childbirth…I think I’d still be around.
We’re also more likely to have to perform tasks where superb eyesight (as opposed to just regular eyesight) is important - nowadays most people in the developed word drive and do some reading. And the diagnostic criteria have changed: thirty years ago I had serious difficulty obtaining my first prescription glasses because the scrip was one diopter in one eye, less in the other, and the doc thought that was “too low for glasses”. Nowadays the focus is less on absolute scrip value and more on whether having the glasses on makes a significant difference in quality of life (mine did: the tree across from the glasses store had individual leaves!).
I wouldn’t have even been started. My mother required life saving procedures when my older sister was born.
For me, I would have a crippled hand, a large growth on my tongue which may have become cancer and mentally unstable. But, other than that. . .
I couldn’t digest milk as an infant, so if I’d been born before soy-based baby formula had been invented, I would have possibly starved to death. As it was, the stuff had to be imported from Japan and was ungodly expensive in the 60’s. I got my first pair of eyeglasses at age 10. My myopia was probably aggravated by reading so damn much, so had I been born in hunter-gatherer days I would probably have great eyesight.
Also a motorcycle wreck at age 20 would have left me without a right hand, but with modern medicine I get two steel plates and eight screws holding my ulna & radius together.
I would never have existed. My dad would have died around 7-8 without the iron lung at Duke Hospital.
Probably but I’d be a blind gimp.
I was hit by a car in my youth and broke three bones (arm, leg, pelvis) and lacerated my spleen. The collision messed up my eyes, gave me some sort of post-traumatic glaucoma, and the rest is history.
Appendicitis at age 15. I’m pretty sure that would have done me in; hell, it almost did.
I was born about 2 months prematurely, with a birth weight of about 4 lbs., requiring an oxygen enriched incubator for several weeks before I was allowed to go home with my parents upon reaching 5 lbs. in weight. My twin brother at birth did not survive longer than a day or two under what I assume were the same conditions.
So no, without “modern medicine” (this was 40+ years ago) I would certainly not be around to be typing this right now.