Life changing discoveries

My asthma inhaler.

I was just thinking the same Gelisajams.

I had a heart bypass in 2018, without a bypass machine this wouldn’t have been possible.

Copd inhaler.
Diabetes medication.
Opioids which help with my 24/7 Restless Legs Syndrome that is more debilitating than everything else put together.

MRI scanners..

Asthma inhaler

Hip implants have saved me and millions from a wheelchair

Bluetooth ear buds for listening to the radio when out walking.

I was a Rhesus baby, had blood transfusions at a few days old. This nearly 70 years ago. I suppose previous babies born with this just died?

Have donated over 100 pints of blood myself, as a small thank you to my anonymous donors, all those years ago.

Penicillin.

Oncotype DX Genomic Tests. Without this, I would have had to have chemotherapy. (The tumour is tested and given a score of between 1 and 100. Where I was treated a score of 25 or more = chemotherapy. I was extremely lucky to have a score of 4 so avoided chemo (mastectomy and radiotherapy required though). My tumour sample was sent to the US for testing at a cost to the NHS of around £4,000 but a cost benefit overall as chemo would have been much more expensive. I am grateful.

Radiotherapy. Thanks to it, my husband is 7 years in remission from prostate cancer.

Being able to see at the 20 week scan that my grandson would need a heart operation at birth to repair transposition of the great arteries.

this.
the internet, and an old hand-me-down lap-top that helps me to research any topic and reach out to people and not be so isolated.
i think it must help many people to simply cope, or to keep on trying.

Streptomycin It saved my husband's life in 1953 when he would otherwise have died of TB.

welbeck

this.
the internet, and an old hand-me-down lap-top that helps me to research any topic and reach out to people and not be so isolated.
i think it must help many people to simply cope, or to keep on trying.

Agree, and it means I can see my son and family on FaceTime in Australia.

Mammography machine saved my life.

Mattsmum2 me too ?

Antibiotics, without them I probably would not have survived infections.

Calendargirl and me too ?

Oestrogen replacement. Without my twice yearly implant I would have hit the menopause 32 years ago. Judging by the difference between my life/health/appearance and that of my peers it has improved my life immensely and I will be on it until I die.

welbeck ? it’s been revolutionary.

Chemotherapy. Without that course six years I would no longer be here.

Asthma inhaler. I suffered from asthma when I was small, there was no medicine for me, my foster parents put it down to nerves. When I was older I was given little tablets to be taken when things got bad. It was only when I came to France it was taken seriously with tests and given treatment. However, that being said, the treatment that saved my life must that which was given while I was a baby in hospital for a month, with pneumonia, being intravenously fed.