What Is The Worst Illness You Have Ever Had?

[coolcam109]

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?

[FrogNog]

Cancer. My perspective has become much more laid back since and I also try to think of life as a gift. I'm well now.

[silliemillie]

I have had & still have Cancer (they can't cure it), makes me much more laid back, don't stress about the small stuff and try to enjoy my life as best I can.

[FrogNog]

Keep smiling silliemillie :)

[silliemillie]

Bless you Frog, you too x

[boxtops]

Anxiety and depression are truly ghastly for sufferers, and particularly when others don't understand it.

More simply - real influenza is horrible, it makes me cross when people say they've got flu, when they've only got a bad cold.

[phleb]

i had malaria, i was on a drip, i couldn't stand up, when i did stand, i fainted. I vomited like mad. It was awful. I thought i was dieing. I'm alive now.

[boxtops]

Not an illness, but what changed my life was when my father died. Before then, I thought I knew what it might feel like to lose a parent. Once it happened to me, I knew I'd never felt like that before, and I felt ashamed that I'd tried to sympathise with people when I had no idea what they were going through.

[ummmm]

Same Boxy. It broke my heart but has made me a much more compassionate person.

[paddywak]

As I've said before I had serious accident at the pit.I can't remember much apart from the pain and the deputy giving me a short of morphia.The next I can remember was about a week later,still in pain after several operations and the last rites.I spent the next few months in hospital and I've few nice scars to remind me.

[tonyav]

I had a brain aneurysm, hospital said I was lucky to be alive.

[Captain2]

I was having tests done on my bowel, but when they couldn't find anything said they'd give me a body scan. Two weeks later they took my left kidney, complete with tumour, out. Now look at life from a different perspective. They never did find out what was wrong with my bowel, but hey ho.

[jennyjoan]

Chicken Pox when I was about 30 - they were everywhere in every orifice - never forget it. A friend later told me when I was better - she had called to see me in the middle of them and she told me my features were even contorted - she said I looked like a monster!.

[DTCwordfan]

My sympathy and admiration to those of you tackling/tackled cancer in all its forms, a close friend of mine has been at it for a decade and still remains unbelivably positive. Also those of you with depression, bipolarism etc....I've had a touch of the former and pretty it isn't.

I've been lucky - bad dosage of measles just before exams and, post them, a relapse and I can still remember that. More recently, a gall bladder and I don't wish the pain of an attack on you (more women get it than men and it's one gauge of the pain of childbirth, the difference being at least that is 'productive').

Other than that, its blood pressure pills and I'm trying to get the weight down - not succeeding tonight and some raspberries are waiting.....

[Mamyalynne]

A massive haemorrhage, rushed in and remember the nurse in the emergency room picking up the phone and saying 'I have a lady here with no pulse', intermittently losing my sight then hearing during this I thought I was gone.


My Husband's illness and death from secondary brain tumours following bowel cancer taught me far more about illness and all it entails and as said above gave me more compassion than ever before.

[jennyjoan]

I have had a few car accidents - one of them I literally was hit 3 times with 3 different cars - they had shuffled me along. And when I was shot twice in the leg.

[gordiescotland1]

Atrial fibrillation really scary being in a heart ward in hospital on a monitor and drip

[Peter Pedant]

Coolcam: tracheal obstruction is associated with a survival rate of 2%

Usually the object blocking the trachea ( remember it is the sinngle wind pipe not the paired bronchi ) has to have a hole in it

that Dorito - did you chew a hole in it before inhaling ?

Fanta I will remember that

[Stephen_G]

Measles (At Christmas), when I was about seven or eight. Glandular Fever, about 10 years later.