Well, kind of a bummer.
I have been battling a lung disease for over two years. I'm not a smoker or have a history of poor health; it just came out of no where.
I have been different pills and inhalants and medications and I am just not getting better. I've had a couple of biopsies and it's really not highlighting any cause; only symptoms. I have had test after test after test and no one can identify the cause.
It's gotten to the point where the specialist, pulmonologist, whatever, is recommending "open lung" surgery. I gotta say, I'm a bit ... nervous ... about this. I don't really care for the notion of someone INSIDE my lungs. Especially having entered not through nose or mouth but stage left.
I cough constantly, I labor in breathing, I see stars, and I am constantly out of breath. Sometimes I cough so hard I almost pass out; kinda scary when you are driving. 18 months of steroids has made me fat and ugly. I can't work out as I am always out of breath. Hell, I get winded drying myself off after the shower. Walking up a flight of stairs, I have to sit down.
I suppose I can live with it, if I have to, but the medicines are awful. I am always famished, ravenous even. I sleep twice as much as I normally do. I am always tired and angry. And I am unreasonably forgetful, as in I am losing memories of significant value. Literally, I was looking at pictures of me standing with people that I cannot remember. It's one thing to misplace your keys or forget what you had for breakfast one day this week but I don't remember family members, as in first cousins!
So, that's my bleating. I'm not looking so sympathy I just want to get it off my chest.
That's a very main reason I have been gone so long.
I have been battling a lung disease for over two years. I'm not a smoker or have a history of poor health; it just came out of no where.
I have been different pills and inhalants and medications and I am just not getting better. I've had a couple of biopsies and it's really not highlighting any cause; only symptoms. I have had test after test after test and no one can identify the cause.
It's gotten to the point where the specialist, pulmonologist, whatever, is recommending "open lung" surgery. I gotta say, I'm a bit ... nervous ... about this. I don't really care for the notion of someone INSIDE my lungs. Especially having entered not through nose or mouth but stage left.
I cough constantly, I labor in breathing, I see stars, and I am constantly out of breath. Sometimes I cough so hard I almost pass out; kinda scary when you are driving. 18 months of steroids has made me fat and ugly. I can't work out as I am always out of breath. Hell, I get winded drying myself off after the shower. Walking up a flight of stairs, I have to sit down.
I suppose I can live with it, if I have to, but the medicines are awful. I am always famished, ravenous even. I sleep twice as much as I normally do. I am always tired and angry. And I am unreasonably forgetful, as in I am losing memories of significant value. Literally, I was looking at pictures of me standing with people that I cannot remember. It's one thing to misplace your keys or forget what you had for breakfast one day this week but I don't remember family members, as in first cousins!
So, that's my bleating. I'm not looking so sympathy I just want to get it off my chest.
That's a very main reason I have been gone so long.