Pretty sure I had a brush with death 2 days ago. I had to go to the emergency room was there about 7 hours. I have never experienced anything like that in my life I legit thought I was about to die the fact I'm home now resting is just so nice.
So what happened? Well let me give a little context first.
Well I honestly don't know maybe it's just bad luck bad timing bad practices maybe. I'm assuming this has been building up for months I don't think it could've happened suddenly though it sure felt sudden when it started. I've been trying to lose weight as you may know I actually think I've developed mental conditions at this point I'm losing my fucking mind. But overall I've dropped 130 pounds which is great I'm happy about it I do wish it was even more honestly, but that's besides the point. I dropped it in what I feel is an acceptable and reasonably healthy timeframe about a year and a month give or take a couple weeks.
Now on this grand adventure this journey if you will this crusade this storm front uphill battle of an adventure at the beachfront of losing weight, I've been on many diets I've tried many quite a few. So my eating habits and times and things I actually eat have changed vastly many times over the past year. I even started doing regular fasting as a experiment to see if I could push my weight loss further you can slowly see the mental issues I'm begining to showcase at this point I admit. So I started fasting regularly 3 months ago my first time dipping my toe into it I did a 3 day fast off the rip I did that once then there after I did a 24 hr fast once a week I basically skipped a day. What did I Iearn from the fasting all it was doing is lowering my weekly calories intake and showing me dips of water carb weight being shed in the end that inevitably returned in the following days creating an endless cycle of up and down weight loss and gain with no real progress I don't think, I really don't think it did anything for me other than in terms of strengthening my will power to not eat though it was gradually eating away at my determination and patience. I am feeling burnt out severely at this point.
So I've been fasting regularly my diet has changed a lot I generally eat healthier or try to I always pick more health focused options and look at labels. I have counted it all before carbs fiber protein sugars fats I've become insane looking at labels so much lol.
My Canon Event: 2 days ago round 8am I woke up feeling like I was having acid reflux or something. So I took some rolaids waited for them to kick in hopefully. Well.... 15 minutes later they did not seem to help at all if anything taking them made me feel 5 times worse as pressure and pain has been building in my chest in my ribcage area. I being a pyscho but rational I have you know health monitoring equipment. I check my blood O2 my heart rate my blood pressure. O2 was fine not my lungs presently which was strange because I honestly felt like I couldn't catch my breath I couldn't take a deep breathing I was essentially panting and not in the sexy way I was also sweating also not sexy at that point lol. My heart rate was shockingly normal I'm toppled over in pain basically doing coin flips on if this was a heart attack or not cause it felt like what I thought a heart attack would feel like but no my heart rate was normal I was at 72bpm sitting up in bed panting sweating with my chest hurting. I get up stumbled around feeling off balance still unable to catch my breath I check my blood pressure now there I got a clue it was 150/90 very strange for me that's not my usual I've never been told I have high bp and I workout go on walks and stuff and have generally got into better shape than I was in.
Now with the realization that this definitely wasn't acid reflux and this isn't going away cause I tried just waiting hoping this would pass cause I hate hospitals especially this time of year. After an hour of suffering my will power to sit and crumble had all but vanished I get to throw on a shirt I didn't even put on pants I just had boxers on I slide on sandles and asked my brother and sister in law to take me somewhere even though I really didn't want to go or bother them.
But I went, it was hell even in the car I couldn't sit straight or relax I felt like I was tweaking I couldn't breathe I couldn't just exist soundly I was panicked and in pain.
We get there I stumble out of the car and inside to the counter I'm speaking low with like a wisp at this point I tell the lady at the counter I basically am having trouble breathing and my chest is hurting severely at this point it's like fire.
So they take me in, they take it all my blood, my pee, probably would've taken something else if the situation were different hehe. But no seriously I'm playing it for a laugh now but I honestly thought I was gonna die.
After blood tests 2 separate blood draws a urine test a CT, a ultrasound, 2 EKGs, a x-ray and what amounted to 7 hours of pain and sufferage. They tell me it's my gallbladder, it's inflamed and swollen up at the moment and has what they told me has sludge in it essentially. It had swollen up and caused the tremendous pain I was in. It was serious cause if it bursts I could die is what they told me. I honestly couldn't believe it I couldn't understand how this could happen.
I explained to the 2 doctors in my room my situation with my weight loss my diet changes my fasting. I did do a full month of keto in March I actually forgot to mention above as well.
All my efforts to get and lose weight and become a healthier happier person had now led me to the emergency room in basically a life or death situation in sheer utterly blinding pain.
They told me this most likely happened because of my rapid weight loss, in combination with the fasting. Fasting for longer than 12 hours apparently caused the bile in your gallbladder to become stagnate and basically build up because it doesn't get to excrete regularly to digest food because eating regularly and high fiber and not too much fat causes the gallbladder to function normally I was essentially letting mine sit on the bench once a week and it was showing.
So in the end chasing my good health led me to ER.
Oh my fucking God.
Kung fu panda has never been more accurate.
"One often meets his destiny on the road he takes to avoid it..."
I'm at a loss. I am.
I'm tired. I have developed some sort of mental issue from this I'm certain.
I lay here now just breathing finally soundly again which I am thankful for at least.
So what did I have done...
Nothing. Ha...
I still have my gallbladder I opted to keep it..... Why. You might say. They offered to remove it right there but something happened about 4 and half hours in the ER the pain went away, they were still doing tests at that time. I told them the pain had thankfully subsided only after 4 plus fucking hours but I was happy to be able to lay back in the surprisingly comfortable hospital bed without being in pain without struggling to breath.
They told me I can alter my diet to correct this which is something I'm no stranger to doing so it was fine. So I have to eat very low fat no sat fat and high fiber.
You know how I fucking see this in the end...
I see it as a fucking challenge, an opportunity to lose more weight...... Yes you heard that right. I'm insane of course I am.
Just finished silksong btw I 100% it lol, so I'm no stranger to bashing my head against a fucking wall repeatedly until the job is done.
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