Vince’s Daily Journal – Day 13
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**Health News**
I’m breaking from the pattern to share some health news with all of you (family and friends, I assume there are no strangers reading this, but who knows?). I’ve been dealing with some pretty severe digestive issues for the last few months. The last couple weeks, and especially the last few days, I feel like I’ve turned a corner for the better, but I’ve had some ‘false positives’ before, but my body ended up going back downhill. It’s been a pretty rough struggle for me to keep food or water in my body, with my system expelling one way or other without my body getting much of the benefit, to the point that I currently weigh 143.6 lbs. The last time I weighed this I was in high school. There’s also been a near constant feeling of nausea and stomach/intestinal discomfort. At one point it seemed there was a blockage, and palpating my abdomen would help things move along. I also MUST be on a laxitive every day (that I have to buy every week at store), and have been for over a month now. If I don’t, my system seems to back up and I wake up early, with pretty violent vomiting. This is clearly not how my digestive tract is supposed to work. So when I went up today to get my monthly Sublocade shot, I brought it up with the nurses who were all in the room. They’ve let me know that I probably should’ve been more concerned about this, because they’re very concerned that it could be something serious. They hazarded no guesses (I appreciate that), but asked a lot of questions, and actually pulled up my records to look (I REALLY appreciate that – I want to take this opportunity to say that the current nursing staff at this facility is night and day different than it was 6 months ago, they truly seem to care and want to help us stay/get healthy, and that’s huge). They ordered a couple test in the next couple of days, and are going to discuss and call me up as needed to try to figure this out.
There are a million things this could be, and I won’t go down the road of speculating. But I can say that it’s serious – I’m down 40 lbs in a few months. As I find out more, I will keep you all posted. Please, if you have an extra minute or two, say a prayer for me, and for everyone in the system with undiagnosed health issues – as well as for the medical professionals who care and genuinely do their best to help. There’s not a lot in here that’s scarier, or makes one feel as out of control of their life and helpless as when you’re sick, don’t know why, and can’t get help. I thank God that I’m getting the attention that I am right now. I’ll be okay, I just wanted to let you all know.
I love you all
Vince
