Learning to live with aging is not for the faint of heart.
This has been especially true for over a year and is still ongoing.
Things began in the last quarter of 2018. First, it was episodes of syncope that began a series of visits to the ER and various specialists. I am now seeing in augment to my primary physician, a cardiologist, endocrinologist, gastroenterologist, neurologist, and a urologist.
In October 2018, one episode caused a call to 911, after a trip to the Emergency Room (ER), I was taken to a room for a few days where all my medications were withheld. It was a consensus that I was on too many medications. Over the next year, my medications were slowly added back and adjusted.
During 2019, I have endured many procedures, there have been a cardiac catheterization during which a stent was placed in the Left Anterior Descending Artery (LAD) that was 80% blocked.
After this procedure, I began a Cardiac Rehabilitation Program. While in the program, a problem began in my right leg.
By the systems, it would appear to be a minor stroke that no one can find through normal diagnostic examinations.
I have a weak right leg with no reason according to the neurologist. He is sending me to a neurological clinic about two hours away in January 2020.
I have had in-home physical therapy to gain mobility in the right leg and to keep from collapsing while trying to walk. I have progressed from a wheelchair to a walker and back to my cane over a period of several months.
Fighting general anxiety and depression along with many chronic conditions over the years I have been on this planet has not been conducive to feeling like writing, reading or working on life in general. This is not a feel sorry post but an apology post for not being around as much as I normally am and keeping up my blogs.
Thank goodness for finally get my medications stabilized and working on life since I was able to drive for the first time in months because of my leg. Being right side dominant and not being able to trust you right leg is something that I hope o one has to go through. I is hard to be an invalid and having to rely on people to take care of you rather than taking care of yourself and helping others like I have for decades.
I have a book to finish, I have a book to read for review, and courses to complete online.
This will be my priority form 2020. I also plan and learning more about marketing and doing research into branding and marketing my side hustle for the gig economy.
I plan on working on my blogs and starting a newsletter.
I will also be learning more about the technology required to prospect for clients and improve my writing and learning more about entrepreneurship.
I may be getting older and have myriad medical issues but that will not hold be back from learning and improving as both a writer and as a person.
Medical issues are something that you deal with that comes with age.
There is no reason the list the medical issues but to say that I have a mini pharmacy in a drawer to control them. There are no cures for them, they are just something to live with and not let them control you.
Robert Medak
Freelance Writer, Blogger, Copy Editor, and Reviewer learning Marketing