So......I will start this thread and say God is good and I am a foolish hillbilly whoes wife saved my life with her persistent nagging about how bad I was looking and how much I was acting like an old man. Long story short...for three years at least, I have been feeling worse and worse. It was to the point that I was hiding my condition to my friends and family for at least three years how I felt health wise. My friends and family would invite me to go hunting, fishing, shooting or even a picnic and I would make excuses for why I couldn't attend.
I got so bad that I was losing my breath carrying my briefcase from my lower drive up to the porch. I had basically self diagnosed myself to be unlucky and thought I had gotten emphysema 25 yrs b4 my pop and was slowly dying-so, I made up my mind that I was going to make it through the holidays before I passed. It was so bad that on Christmas, when I had 20 family members coming to the house for my ham and Turkey feast, I went outside to blow leaves before they came and passed out and came too in the garage holding on to the fenders of my old Fairlane while I lost my bowels!
Of course I didn't say anything and went and changed clothes and pulled off the family gig. I was literally in survival mode for the next few weeks. My loving wife made an appointment with a new doctor who met with me for a while and immediately sent me across the street to the hospital for labs on a Thursday. Went out for pizza and woke up on Saturday to about 10 frantic messages from Drs office that I was in eminent risk of death and go to ER!.
Long story short- my red blood cells were almost non existent. To the point that my Hemoglobin was so low they drew blood to make sure it wasn't a contaminated sample b4 they pumped blood into me for nearly 30 hours. They have run at least 8 tests,scans whatever and have concluded that my body decided to stop absorbing iron at some point so I basically was going through the motions of life trying to survive. I am getting infusions of iron now, and while not yet normal, I am out of critical into only a serious category on my Hemoglobin scale.
I feel like I could climb the mountain again. Last Saturday my cousin called and invited me for a rabbit hunt. We chased beagles until the snow said go home. First time I've been in the hunting woods in three years! Never thought I'd get to hear beagles sing again. Listen to your wife and family! Don't be a stubborn idiot like me.God is great and I have a new lease on life!
Here is me and my cousin (he has the porn stash!) living again!
Can't wait for Turkeys and Trout! GODSPEED!
I got so bad that I was losing my breath carrying my briefcase from my lower drive up to the porch. I had basically self diagnosed myself to be unlucky and thought I had gotten emphysema 25 yrs b4 my pop and was slowly dying-so, I made up my mind that I was going to make it through the holidays before I passed. It was so bad that on Christmas, when I had 20 family members coming to the house for my ham and Turkey feast, I went outside to blow leaves before they came and passed out and came too in the garage holding on to the fenders of my old Fairlane while I lost my bowels!
Of course I didn't say anything and went and changed clothes and pulled off the family gig. I was literally in survival mode for the next few weeks. My loving wife made an appointment with a new doctor who met with me for a while and immediately sent me across the street to the hospital for labs on a Thursday. Went out for pizza and woke up on Saturday to about 10 frantic messages from Drs office that I was in eminent risk of death and go to ER!.
Long story short- my red blood cells were almost non existent. To the point that my Hemoglobin was so low they drew blood to make sure it wasn't a contaminated sample b4 they pumped blood into me for nearly 30 hours. They have run at least 8 tests,scans whatever and have concluded that my body decided to stop absorbing iron at some point so I basically was going through the motions of life trying to survive. I am getting infusions of iron now, and while not yet normal, I am out of critical into only a serious category on my Hemoglobin scale.
I feel like I could climb the mountain again. Last Saturday my cousin called and invited me for a rabbit hunt. We chased beagles until the snow said go home. First time I've been in the hunting woods in three years! Never thought I'd get to hear beagles sing again. Listen to your wife and family! Don't be a stubborn idiot like me.God is great and I have a new lease on life!
Here is me and my cousin (he has the porn stash!) living again!
Can't wait for Turkeys and Trout! GODSPEED!
