I dont post often but I thought that I would give everybody a little bit of an update on my health issues. I have an issue with abnormally high red blood cells which has caused me all kinds of problems. It makes my blood abnormally thick and therefore makes me prone to strokes and other issues. One year ago today I was not sleeping more than an hour at a time. I was literally passing out at work in the middle of conversations with co-workers and clients. I was having serious problems with swelling in my legs. I have no health insurance (and obamacare is no help to me, it would take 35-40% of my take home pay just to pay for health insurance), so my options were limited to both figure out what was wrong with me, and to get the care I needed. My doctor recommended that I get regular blood draws to thin out my blood. (one pint at a time) I started out having them every other week, and I am now at every other month. Luckily this is something that I have been able to get for free. This has helped me enormously. However, in September I was able to get a free sleep apnea test and am now using a C-Pap machine and OMG has that made a huge difference in my life. For the first time in at least 15 years I am actually sleeping 8 hours a night. Its fabulous. So all is really massively improved with me healthwise. I am up to my eyeballs in medical debt, but at least I have my health problems under control.
Posted on: Thu, 07 Nov 2013 17:23:30 +0000
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