If it weren't for modern medicine, would you still be alive?, page 2

No, I wouldn't be here.
I have thought of this many times actually.

I was born with a spinal cord defect, a mild case but in order to not be crippled I needed a series of 3 spinal cord releases and some other work done, if it weren't for that I'd be in a wheelchair right now, or possibly dead.
I am so very lucky because most people born with what I have at that time and some still now didn't/don't have the option of surgery as there is simply just too much damage.

But the biggies that would have done me in 100% are the infections that followed reconstructive surgery of the bones in my leg.
I got cellulitis that turned into pseudomonas,then turned into osteomyelitis if it weren't for those "evil" medications people want to rant and rave about I wouldn't be here, there simply isn't any other way to get rid of such severe infections other than amputation if it's early enough and anyone who says other wise is clueless.
A few years ago they wouldn't waste their time on any wound the had even the tiniest bit of bone exposure.
I tried it all because being on a course of IV antibiotics for 5 months is not fun, but in the end was worth it, and I tried EVERYTHING but when it came down to it, nothing lowered my white blood cell count and nothing attacked the infection like the antibiotics.

Then when the wound was healed, this happened to me twice and both times I was shown/ the amazing capabilities of the medical world.

So the first time after they cleared the infection they completely slooped off a quarter of my foot everything was exposed entire ankle bone surrface to the big toe along with tissue&muscle all the goodies and the wound wouldn't heal because of all the damage done from the 50 some surgeries so they put me on something called a "Wound Vac" it is a vaccum like device that has an negative pressure system and pulls away the bad drainage while encouraging granulation of the new skin cells, what they do is pack the wound with a sponge the sponge is connected to a plastic tube after that's all done they seal it completely with a tape covering.
It worked, and worked great I would have had my leg amputated or had such severe reoccurring infections and eventually would have grown resistant to anti biotics which was already happening and would have died if this little machine wasn't created, which the idea I believe was from the medical use of maggots (they wanted to do this, but I've seen how that treatment can go wrong , lets say it's not so pretty).

Then the 2nd time I got another wound from surgery so I was left with another wound from another severe bone infection that those oh so evil antibiotics saved me from but this time it was more tricky even though it was a smaller area the blood flow to that area was not as great as the other wound and with the bone being exposed it was either chop it off, die from infection after becoming resistant to anti biotics, I didn't like those options so I found my own I found a micro vascular plastic surgeon who had this new procedure he had been doing for sometime but never done on this tricky location on my foot (right at the bone about 3 inches from the little toe) but he did it anyway and it worked it's called a full thickness muscle graft but different from the standard more common one, so what they did was go into the thigh, take out muscles and veins and nerves they than take those and cut an area out around the wound exposing the ends of the same nerve, same vein connect them and than stitch the muscle and than do a split thickness skin graft that they just take a thin layer of skin thinner than wet tissue paper and put it over the muscle, they all grow into one another ad heal on the outside but at first it is huge like someone put a softball under the skin but after time since the muscle isn't being used it causes it to atrophy and the mass of it goes down in it was a 25 hour surgery pretty intense but got the job done.

All these things could have killed me.
I just really hope for those who have it much worse than I do/did can one day have their health needs met by the medical community, the spinal defect I was born with is now fixable while in the womb and also it has been found that folic acid is a key factor and can keep these things from happening, again the wonders of the medical world, which honestly doesn't get enough credit.
My heart goes out to those who have to wait for the medical world to catch up to their illness, I am so grateful for my life and try to give back as much as I can to others who are in worse of situations than I could ever be in.
If it wasn't for the medical world, doctors, the medications so many people love to hate these tiny bumps in the road of my life could have been much more severe if not deadly.

People who want to do nothing but attack the medical world I feel are just lack an understanding maybe they were lucky enough to never need the meds they hate so much, or maybe they'd/their children die before taking t
Not everyone is evil, not everyone is out to get you, not everything is a part of a master plan to get you.
If things don't move fast enough in the medical world for you, become apart of it, take action do something productive about it.
I know from personal experience that not every doctor is "evil" some may even have the same opinions as people on here most of them are doing the best they can with the time resources and money they have.
I grew up in hospital rooms instead of classrooms and I am thankful for that as I have some of the best role models and have become close friends with many of the doctors and nurses I've had over the years and I feel for them when I see what a thankless job they can have at times.

Sorry that this is so long, I just have strong feelings about this and feel the medical world gets way too much crap thrown on it, it's something that has deeply impacted my life in the most positive way.