Your's sounds beautiful. Mine are a domestic short hair and a domestic long hair. The short hair is 21 and I swear is going to outlive us all, and also extremely vocal. How long have you been playing the game for?
I'm not sure when I started. Days and time have little meaning for me anymore. The only days that keep track of are the medical appointments I have. I don't ask anyone to feel sorry for me because of what I'm going to describe to you below. It doesn't bother me. I put the adversity in my life to good use.
When I stopped working in 2015 it wasn't by choice. I was laid off from my last job. Soon after that I was taken to hospital with near lethal blood glucose levels. I had a serious infection in my right leg that required an IV of antibiotics be attached to me for two months. I had asked several doctors to test me for diabetes before all this happened and the arrogant (censored) doctors wouldn't listen.
My blood pressure shot up, my kidneys started to lose function, my vision started to get worse. All side effects of something that could easily have been treated a decade or more before it was finally addressed. I have a great medical team now. They listen to me, they let me take an active part in my own treatment. Six weeks after the hospital diagnosed me as being diabetic (type II) I reduced the levels from 23 to 8. Trust me, that's a huge difference. My kidneys are holding at 2/3 functionality. That's letting me avoid dialysis. My eyes have recently developed small retina damage. I'm getting eye injections to get them clear. I have lost feeling in both feet from the toes to the pad from neuropathy. It's starting to affect my hands. I also have arthritis in the toes. Mercifully I don't fee it very much thanks to the nerve damage. My fingers are starting to get it too. I also seem to have a problem when I'm sleeping. According to my wife, I'm twitching a lot in my sleep. It's like my whole body spasms. I'm seeing a sleep specialist for that next month.
I do volunteer work with the Ottawa Hospital. I'm on the Patient Advisory panel. We meet with hospital officials and make suggestions on how services can be improved. My failing health has enabled me to give valuable input to the hospital management. I believe that is the reason I've gotten to where I am and why I'm still going when every indication shows I shouldn't be. That I don't like to give up lol
When you feel you no longer have any purpose in life, then even if you're still breathing, you are not truly alive. I prefer to be truly alive.
