The Adventure That Has Been 2025 in General
- Feb. 21, 2025, 1:45 p.m.
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(A little duplication from last entry)
Back around Christmas I started feeling “off.”
Weird intangible “not quite right.”
I chocked it up to age/whatever crap was going around. A few weeks later and I was in perpetual roller coaster of nausea, diarrhea and malaise.
I ignored it – figuring it was Norovirus or something. I decided to let my ridiculous immune system that most of my life could stomp most infections flat in a few days. Oh age.
Three weeks in I finally tried to get an appointment with my PCP. Too four days, and in the meantime, I was non-functional for work.
I finally saw one of my PCP’s PAs. Twenty questions I was off to the lab for a blood draw.
I went home and was heading for bed when the phone rang. My PCPs number.
“You need to get to the emergency room right now.”
Off to the emergency. Obviously due to my perpetual fluid loss my blood chemistry was all out of wack and my calcium level was dangerously low – like I could die in my sleep dangerously low.
Three days of blood draws and bag after bag of saline they finally cut me loose. I still felt like shit – just not like hammered dogshit.
So here we are a month later. It is still going on. A few more rounds of lab work and it appears to be getting better. But still not 100%.
In my 40s I remember thinking “This getting old is cake!” Not so much anymore.
Luckily whatever started this isn’t contagious. So, I have been powering through at work and life is a cycle of powering through days at work and sleeping the balance of the days.
Shocked to find in the last two months I have lost 40 pounds. In the last year I have lost 60 pounds. One more pound and I am at my grandson’s goal weight of 180. Still 10 pounds above my high school weight. As light as I have been in my adult life.
Two observations: It has been all muscle mass. I am now as weak as a newborn kitten. Second is it is impossible to stay warm – which is new for me.
On a positive note I felt ok when I woke up this morning. But that has happened before
Oh the adventure!
Last updated February 21, 2025
Sassy ⋅ February 22, 2025
I am down to 127 - I understand the muscle loss. I weighed 117 when I graduated from high school 50 years ago.
Kristi1971 ⋅ February 27, 2025
Our 40s were just a tease. You THINK getting old is no problem....until you are older than your 40s. That's a lot of weight. No wonder you can't get warm! I really hope you start to feel better soon.