Hagerstown, Maryland
I went to the University of Maryland Medical Center in Baltimore yesterday and met with a professor of medicine and the director of the inflammatory bowel disease program who is a Crohn’s disease and ulcerative colitis expert. I’m so glad that I did. He was like a human lighthouse in the fog of medical confusion I’ve …
In response to my recent health scare which resulted in spending ten days in the hospital, nine of those days in intensive care, I vowed to myself that I would do whatever I needed to do to never let that incident ever happen again. My diabetes was a contributing factor to the problems I had. Since getting …
This blog post is part of a series of posts that began with what I wrote about how I almost died. Make sure to first read that one first and then the follow-up post after that before reading this one. Things will probably make more sense that way. The good news is that I’m totally off …
This post is going to be very self-indulgent as it pertains to my health. If you have no interest in reading this, please accept my apologies. Then again, this is my personal blog. Remember those? I should be entitled to write about myself here without apologies. Also, I have a few family members back in …
I got very sick on December 20, 2017, and took an ambulance ride to Meritus Medical Center, the greatest hospital in the world, and spent over a week in intensive care. I had a lower G.I. blockage, which resulted in a severe and nearly deadly infection. The infection caused me to go into Diabetic Ketoacidosis. You do …