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I’m going to post this here since several people have been following and I’m not up for a lot of individual replies, but I’ve met some decent internet friends here. So with some nods to not over sharing I’m posting a brief update/recap.
I’ve dealt with Crohn’s disease since my early 20’s, and have run the gambit of treatments. I’ve also dealt with melanoma and prostate cancer in the last 6-7 years. That might suggest why I retired young.
This last month has been a medical challenge, still dealing with some side effects of radiation and getting that checked out (and ruling out bladder cancer). I ended up in the ER locally and was admitted and transferred to a regional hospital for bowel obstruction. After 5 fun filled days testing how much gut pain I could tolerate vs how much IV pain meds they could pump in me before suppressing my respiration, that finally cleared short of emergency surgery. I’m still recovering from that, not eating quite regularly and on some steriods to manage bowel inflammation, which brings it’s own nasty side effects. But I’m slowly improving.
I spent the last week back at the Mayo clinic in Rochester, Mn. I won’t get into potentially political topics on our country’s medical system, and the Mayo clinic is not completely without it’s issues but I do believe they still have some of the best experts in medicine. The current plan is for bowel surgery sometime this summer. I’ve had part of my illeum resected in 2004, so this is not my first ride in this rodeo. It’ll be a few rough months but I’m optimistic for another 20 years of gastronomic peace. Or at least a reduction of hostilities.
Glad I got my new shop finished last year. I can go out there and do some planning, work on a few small projects, maybe even make some progress on my bridge crane build while slogging through the recovery. Still have lots of other major projects in the queue! Just going to have to be a satisfied with slower progress for a while.
I’ve dealt with Crohn’s disease since my early 20’s, and have run the gambit of treatments. I’ve also dealt with melanoma and prostate cancer in the last 6-7 years. That might suggest why I retired young.
This last month has been a medical challenge, still dealing with some side effects of radiation and getting that checked out (and ruling out bladder cancer). I ended up in the ER locally and was admitted and transferred to a regional hospital for bowel obstruction. After 5 fun filled days testing how much gut pain I could tolerate vs how much IV pain meds they could pump in me before suppressing my respiration, that finally cleared short of emergency surgery. I’m still recovering from that, not eating quite regularly and on some steriods to manage bowel inflammation, which brings it’s own nasty side effects. But I’m slowly improving.
I spent the last week back at the Mayo clinic in Rochester, Mn. I won’t get into potentially political topics on our country’s medical system, and the Mayo clinic is not completely without it’s issues but I do believe they still have some of the best experts in medicine. The current plan is for bowel surgery sometime this summer. I’ve had part of my illeum resected in 2004, so this is not my first ride in this rodeo. It’ll be a few rough months but I’m optimistic for another 20 years of gastronomic peace. Or at least a reduction of hostilities.
Glad I got my new shop finished last year. I can go out there and do some planning, work on a few small projects, maybe even make some progress on my bridge crane build while slogging through the recovery. Still have lots of other major projects in the queue! Just going to have to be a satisfied with slower progress for a while.
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