I'm 24, I've had the common cold, strep throat, the flu, chickenpox, broken both arms on separate occasions at a young age and had pancreatitis. What would be the earliest time in history I could have lived with these medical issues and still be alive at my age?

by therealityofthings
Jan_van_Bergen

None of those conditions are inherently fatal, although under the right circumstances any of them, save the common cold, could kill you. There is no reason to believe that you couldn't have survived those conditions when humans were still roaming the African plains 150,000 years ago, as long as things went your way - i.e. not severe breaks, no especially bad strains of the flu, chickenpox at a young age, mild acute pancreatitis, etc.

But maybe you're asking a different question?

andygates2323

I wonder, OP, were either of those bone breaks compounded (ie gross bone-sticking-out stuff)?