• Question: What is the worst illness you have had? What did you do to cure it, did you have to go to the hospital?

    Asked by Tash2001 to Ceri, Marikka, Matt, Rob, Sally on 14 Nov 2014.
    • Photo: Sally Cutler

      Sally Cutler answered on 14 Nov 2014:

      Hi, my appendix burst, I was pretty sick and had a week in hospital, but this is non-infectious.

    • Photo: Ceri Dare

      Ceri Dare answered on 15 Nov 2014:

      I got schizophrenia, and have been in hospital a lot of times for that. Schizophrenia is a mental illness which made me really confused and miserable. But thanks to a lot of help and support, I am doing much better now, and haven’t been in hospital for a few years – I just take medicines and look after myself, and my lovely boyfriend helps to look after me too. Life is good now!

      There are two short talks by people with schizophrenia here http://www.ted.com/talks/elyn_saks_seeing_mental_illness?language=en and here: http://www.ted.com/talks/eleanor_longden_the_voices_in_my_head

    • Photo: Robert Hampson

      Robert Hampson answered on 18 Nov 2014:

      On my seventh birthday, I grew a massive lump on my neck. My mum took me to the doctors, he sent me to hospital thinking I may have mumps (dangerous disease). I was in hospital most of that day being tested on, then they let me go home in the evening because it was my birthday. I went back the next day, they had no idea what the lump was so they did more tests. Eventually, a couple of days later it went away on its own. The doctors still have absolutely no idea what it was.

      The best theory that they had was that I had caught mumps but because I’d had the MMR jab (very important to prevent three very dangerous diseases), I had not developed full blown mumps. Instead the infection had localised in my neck and my immune system had effectively got rid of it on its own.

    • Photo: Marikka Beecroft

      Marikka Beecroft answered on 19 Nov 2014:

      I actually never been too ill all my life and only had to take antibiotics twice! One for an ear infection and another for a really nasty cut. When I was a baby though I had severe jaundice (blood disease that turns you yellow like a simpson) and had to have a blood transfusion so I would survive, I was too young to remember but my parents were worried.

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