Here’s How My Day Went Today

What did YOU do that was as interesting as this?

Image by mohamed Hassan from Pixabay

I was bored and lonely. I’m usually extremely busy but as of this week, not so much. I found myself doing the things that I had been putting off as I hadn’t had the time. Like spending some one-on-one time with my insurance company’s pharmacist. Take a shot and try to say that three times fast.

I got 3 labs tests results back and all of them had in red at the top, “abnormal”. Color me shocked. Everything else of late had been so why would this be any different? I figured something would come back hinky after having pneumonia and then fluid in my lungs. Next stop?

Ruling out congestive heart failure.

I’m going to be tested now for my iron levels since they were one of the few things that showed a red H with an up arrow next to it (results are back and iron is fine. I know. Don’t ask me.) Again, I would not be surprised to learn that I am iron deficient giving everything that has been going on with the old bod.

But an ongoing issue that I’ve had that until now I have poo-pooed is my cholesterol. It has been slightly over the top end of the chart for some time now. Back in Dec 2018 I was on my final deployment and came back with 2 blood clots in my left leg. I think that was from the 20+ hours of travel to get from…