Drakmanka
ahem
*gets on Ranting Soapbox*
Doctors nearly let me die when I was 3 because I was "too young to be sick". When my parents, who, bless them, never gave up trying to get me diagnosed with something, anything, finally found a surgeon who actually looked at me and not my age, he was horrified. I had acute tonsilitis. My tonsils were so inflamed that if I went into a deep stage of sleep I would stop breathing. The only reason I was still alive at that point was because my mom wasn't sleeping at all during the nights but instead was lying awake listening to the baby monitor she had next to my head, listening for my breathing to stop so she could come in and wake me up so I'd start breathing again.
Fuck anyone, no matter their level of education, that refuses to consider the possibility that someone is sick, no matter what they bullshit reasons are.
*ceases rant, gets down off Ranting Soapbox*
I'm just lucky my problem was fixed with a simple surgery and I don't have permanent health problems because of all those morons who waved me away all those years ago.
While we're starting to get off topic a bit, i ahve a channel-related topic that derives from this, actually.
I nearly died as well, though not through the fault of the (horrible) medical system. As a new born, in the 80s, i caught a case of viral pneumonia. In my region, at that time, there was not a safe way to treat infants with viral pneumonia, only the more common bacterial form. So my prognosis was basically i was dead already and just did know it. It has a horribly low survival rate.
Well, it's an dragonkin thing, because it happens that just before i caught this lethal infection, my draconic half did something rather dumb, and nearly died from the results. (She was either still-a-fledgling-but-almost-an-adult or a recently-mature-adult at the time.) Long story short, she had flight training issues, for far longer than is reasonable for fledglings. In a bout of anger, depression, and dumbness, she snuck off from her mother and siblings, found a seaside cliff, and determined that the seabreeze may help her grasp flight mechanics better than she's been failing to do.
She assessed this very incorrectly. It was only the fact our mother is the R'Thakian version of a medical doctor, and was literally only second late for the leap. She wasnt fast enough to catch my draconic half, however, who was thrashed against the cliff and shoals. It's were the scar on our chest comes from. But that timing allowed immediate magical first aid, or me and my draconic half would not be alive due to that.
It took around three days for her to heal back to functional health. In the same time period, between nurse shifts, i went from "foot in the grave" to no-long-sick. perfectly healthy. Suddenly.
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