BBC TV "WDYTYA?" Series 7 Episode #6: Martin Freeman

[shanew147]

that (6 months) makes sense to me.. usually for an ongoing illness the death cert will have cause, duration and certified by ....



Shane

[Nick29]

Yes, I found that after I scanned and enlarged  

I'll get me coat.......  

[Malcolm Bull]

I just watched this week's WDYTYA with Martin Freeman.

At first, I thought they must be getting near the bottom of the barrel, as they seemed to labouring the point of how his g-father was killed in WW2, and I appreciate that not everyone can know what RAMC stands for, or what army badge features the Caduceus, and not everyone [even an actor] can be expected to be able to pronounce DESIROUS or GOUNOD correctly.  But, just as I was losing the will to carry on,  it suddenly all seemed worthwhile when they spoke to the man who knows about diseases, and he told us about how syphilis can cause sequences of peri-natal deaths.

Roll on the next series

[Siamese Girl]

Thinking back to the programme I remember them saying Richard Freeman died in 1915, but didn't mention a cause - it would have been interesting to know what it was.

Carole

[Half Pint]

Hi

My mum and dad are rhesus negative and positive.  In 1957 they were told that it only usually affects the second and fifth pregnancies.  My brother born in 1959 and sister born in 1973 were fine with no problems in the pregnancies.

Regards

Half Pint

From a medical website:

 

Rhesus incompatibility problems can only arise when a woman's blood is rhesus negative and her baby's blood is rhesus positive.

This in turn can only happen if the baby's father's blood is also rhesus positive.

Generally speaking there are no problems during a woman's first pregnancy with a baby whose blood is rhesus positive.

But during childbirth, as opposed to during pregnancy, when there is potential mixing of maternal and foetal blood, the baby's blood can sensitise the woman to rhesus positive blood and if she has a subsequent pregnancy with a rhesus positive baby there is a risk of haemolytic disease of the newborn.

This occurs because the mother will have made antibodies to the rhesus positive blood of the baby, which will react much more strongly in a subsequent pregnancy.

Thankfully the anti-D injection you had immediately after having your first baby will have prevented any risk of this haemolytic disease of the newborn happening.

As it happens I have Rh.negative blood and none of my children have been affected, even though I had all but the last before Anti D was available and my OH has Rh.pos blood.  I know at least 4 of my children have rh.negative blood.  Like all things, blood grouping is very complex. 

Lizzie

[Lydart]

Blood groups are not only simply A, B, O ... etc, and + or - ...... there are also other factors like enzymes present in blood.   Thus, when I was pregnant for the first time in Africa, and had a blood sample done at the African hospital, they thought they had muddled up my blood with someone elses (thank goodness I wasn't having a transfusion !    ) ... as my blood had the minor characteristics of someone from the Middle East or Greece or Italy ... not your usual Brit's blood.   I got it checked again at a private hospital in Nairobi ... and the result was the same.   

Thus ... I suspect that family rumours that my illegit fathers father had been an Italian or Greek sailor may well have been true !   

[lesleyhannah]

Lydart, that's really exciting! I wish when I'd had my blood taken during pregnancy it had thrown a light on the nationality of my mystery g-grandfather! Unfortunately I'm A Negative just like my mum and her family.

[Marmaduke 123]

I'm B neg and my husband is A pos. After my first child was born I was paranoid about having the anti D injection within the time limit, As it happens both my children are neg also so I needn't have worried. When I see the first child OK and subsequent ones dying in my tree that is the first thing I think of.

Anne

[LizzieW]

The odd thing is that both my parents had Rh.positive blood but by some coincidence they both had to be considered Rh.negative if they ever had to receive blood, which was caused by something much more complex than the usual ABO blood types.  Presumably it is because of this that I turned out to have Rh.neg blood.  - And I'm definitely my father's daughter, I have his eyes, as has his mother and his grandmother - that is deep set, dark brown.  I look just like his youngest sister too and nothing like my mother.

I wish I'd kept mum's blood card now after she died, so that I could have made a note of her exact blood type.  I know dad had a card too, but I don't know what happened to that.

Lizzie