I don\'t want to get any healthier
OK back in 2005 My primary physician told me to quit smoking and I would feel so much better and I would be so much healthier. I quit cold Turkey in October of 2005 after being hospitalized for Pneumonia and my first episodes of PE's, (Yes GOD I got the hint). Any way I couldn't wait to get past the craving stages because I was going to be so much healthier. .............Ok then I developed High Cholesterol, which ok I'm almost 55 I can understand that, but then Hypothyroidisim came along and whats this all about? Now I'm on 2 meds I wasn't on before but thats OK because I'm going to be so much healthier now that I quit smoking. Then one day I developed High blood pressure, but I'm still thinking positive and keep thinking some day soon I'm going to be so much healthier, Then Osteoarthritis comes along and takes out my knee, And over night I become the Bionic woman, well at least with my left knee I do and now I set off all the metal detectors in the court house, and at all air ports, artificial knees will do that ya know? But I am going to be healthier. In September I had another PE that magically appeared and now Im a lifer on Coumadin but as my Doctor says you quit smoking Joyce your going to be healthier in the long run. The last Cat scan I got back in October of 2008 showed 2 lumps in my right breast so off I go to get my Mammies Grahamed. Yup I have 2 lumps but not to worry because I quit smoking and will be healthier anyday now, but they also scheduled me for a followup mammograham in 6 months. Then yesterday after having the bottom drop out of my INR I developed another clot magicially out of no where so the doctor gave me a shot of Lovenox and a spritzer of Nytroglycerin under the tounge in case it was my artial valve in my heart. And I spent the next 24 hours under the microscope in the ICU unit in case it was my heart. Now the doctor is recommending I get a colonoscopy to screen me for colon cancer because in some cases colon cancer can cause bloot clots to magically appear, and I should have my heart tested too just in case. I'm not sure i can stand getting any healthier though.
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Hi there,
I love your sense of humor! As they say \"Whatever gets you through the night\"!I was laughing through your journal entry. That hit so close to home. I told my doctor that if he keeps finding things wrong with me I was going to fire him and find someone with a better opinion!
Hang in there! And keep laughing!