Checking in
Hi everyone. It's been a while since I've been online, and I apologize for that. It's been quite a wild ride these past few months. I was in the hospital at the end of last year with heart failure, and it turns out that it's a chronic condition now. My cardiologist says that my heart itself is healthy--I exercise, I eat well--and that it's likely a genetic condition. Like there's a gene in my DNA that decided this was the time to switch on and activate it. I'm on 5 new daily medications, which sucks, but it seems to be working. My latest EKG was very positive and shows that the tissue of my heart is healing from the incident that landed me in the hospital last year. As long as I continue with the medication and do what I can to minimize stress and eat well/exercise/etc., then I should be just fine and be able to go on with no real impact on my life and the way I normally live it. Which considering the alternative is really great news.
All of that has been bad enough to deal with, but I found out at the start of the year that I had about ten pounds of tumors growing on my uterus. How does that even happen without anyone noticing??? I was pretty sick for a while, even more so once I started undergoing treatment, but I had surgery at the start of the summer that appears to have been very successful. Tumors gone, uterus gone, about two and a half months off of work to recover, and now I'm finally beginning to feel like my old self again. I'm still highly anemic, but that seems to be the only lingering symptom my doctor is actively concerned about. And there are pills for that, so once again I feel like I dodged a major bullet.
So yeah. Not a big fan of 2022. But at the same time, I really can't complain because everything could have been so much worse. So in a weird way I also feel very lucky, and blessed, and very happy to be alive.
I hope you're all having a wonderful autumn and enjoying yourselves as the year is drawing to a close. I truly appreciate each and every one of you. ❤️
All of that has been bad enough to deal with, but I found out at the start of the year that I had about ten pounds of tumors growing on my uterus. How does that even happen without anyone noticing??? I was pretty sick for a while, even more so once I started undergoing treatment, but I had surgery at the start of the summer that appears to have been very successful. Tumors gone, uterus gone, about two and a half months off of work to recover, and now I'm finally beginning to feel like my old self again. I'm still highly anemic, but that seems to be the only lingering symptom my doctor is actively concerned about. And there are pills for that, so once again I feel like I dodged a major bullet.
So yeah. Not a big fan of 2022. But at the same time, I really can't complain because everything could have been so much worse. So in a weird way I also feel very lucky, and blessed, and very happy to be alive.
I hope you're all having a wonderful autumn and enjoying yourselves as the year is drawing to a close. I truly appreciate each and every one of you. ❤️