Have Any Of You Experienced Serious Illness?

[DJVision]

I ask this question because recently I had around 3 months of symptoms that really had me believing that I had the C.. Luckily it wasn't anything that sinister.

In that 3 months period or so, I really did believe I was a goner.

However that period of time, really put lots of things into percpective for me.

Here are some realisations that came to me.

01. Prayer - I believe in a creator, however for a very very long time, I haven't actively practiced prayer or religion. This recent experience has put me on the path to actively start practicing prayer.

02. Be good to good people - Yes throughout these scary few months, I often thought about some people in my past, that I should have been more caring and compassionate with. I made a decision moving forward, to be more good to good people and show more compassion and charity.

03. Dating & Females - When you are a single man, at my age (late 40s) if you suddenly become ill and it dawn's on you.. Who will look after me? Yup for a good while I felt that unwell that I couldn't do any daily chores and not having a good woman or a solid relationship with a woman made me think about, all the time I have wasted in my life on Low Quality females that I could never really depend on, when things become really hard in my life.

04. Experience everything - This is something I aim to do moving forward. Experience the best things of life, travel, good food, Live a healthy lifestyle, etc.


I don't know man these are just my thoughts after really believing for several months that it was game over for me.. it was a scary and yet an enlightenment experience for me.

 

[Sega Genesis]

I don't know man these are just my thoughts after really believing for several months that it was game over for me.. it was a scary and yet an enlightenment experience for me.

The first time I had Covid, I thought I may die.

This past summer, I developed a fungal infection, maybe from the Covid or swimming, still don't know, and was very sick and thought some days I was close to the end.

I wasn't responding to the antibiotics and I attribute my healing to an abundance of Omega-3's in my diet, no joke!

And yes it did cause me to re-evaluate the direction of my life, not in all the ways you mentioned but in significant ways nonetheless. Nos, 1, 2 and 4, for sure!

I read in a different post what your symptoms were, did the doctors ever determine what was wrong or did it resolve itself?

 

[DJVision]

The first time I had Covid, I thought I may die.

This past summer, I developed a fungal infection, maybe from the Covid or swimming, still don't know, and was very sick and thought some days I was close to the end.

I wasn't responding to the antibiotics and I attribute my healing to an abundance of Omega-3's in my diet, no joke!

And yes it did cause me to re-evaluate the direction of my life, not in all the ways you mentioned but in significant ways nonetheless. Nos, 1, 2 and 4, for sure!

I read in a different post what your symptoms were, did the doctors ever determine what was wrong or did it resolve itself?

Well it's good to know you are making a good recovery. By the way, in regards to COVID.. I have always been a fitness person, however back in the Delta Wave of COVID, I got that sick from COVID, I ended up with COVID Pneumonia.. I was admitted into hospital and put on Oxygen for 7 days, as my oxygen levels dropped into the mid 80s.

That was definitely a very scary and sombering experience.

My current symptoms, I still have no idea what the cause is. I am awaiting a blood test result for Celiac disease (I believe this is a issue you can develop when you become intolerant to Gluten)

Initially the big concern was cancer. As my symptoms are very similar to Colon/Rectal cancer.. However all the imaging and especially the Colonoscopy (Gold Standard Diagnostic test) suggest its nothing as serious as that.

 

[corrector]

I can't speak for myself, but my mother had covid earlier this month and she had stroke-like symptoms, low oxygen, and a blood pressure as low as 55/35. The received treatment and was with her the whole time. Thank God she had recovered and was able to be discharged from the hospital within 6 days after admission.

I didn't come to any epiphany. I know at some point there might be an end (ie if something happens to my mother, then it would feel like the end of the world to me as we are very close to each other, however, she's 86 years old, and people eventually die at some point unless they are "Raptured" (one time event that can circumvent this for true Christians who are looking forward to the return of Jesus), and facing the prospect of potentially being in economic distress, I'm just relieved nothing of the sort happened and we took care of her.

Of course, it is a miracle that my mother is still here today. Sometimes we don't have much patience with her as she makes incessant demands on us, my dad is 80 years old himself and looks needs a cane to walk and he's struggling, and she makes demands on me too allot of times that tests my patience. I wish the experience would have make us more patient with her but I guess there is just allot of things going on.

In term of the other points you've mentioned, again, I didn't get any epiphany on it like you did. But again, my experience was indirect as someone else was seriously sick, and has been disabled as well for a period of time. It's just that we are close so it is personal with me.

 

[Gamisch]

Had a gruelling stomachache this year .couldn't eat for a week or more, kept throwing up. Only relieve was sitting in the shower. Sat in the shower for hours a day.

Made me PRAY in the shower. Hadn't been praying for years.

Health is EVERYTHING. Everytime when I don't wanna hit the gym I remind myself how it felt to be flattened. My goal this year is 365 days in the gym . Ofcourse that won't be possible as life happens, but I rather aim high.

I am extremely grateful and thank God for every day I am healthy!!!

 

[DJVision]

I can't speak for myself, but my mother had covid earlier this month and she had stroke-like symptoms, low oxygen, and a blood pressure as low as 55/35. The received treatment and was with her the whole time. Thank God she had recovered and was able to be discharged from the hospital within 6 days after admission.

I didn't come to any epiphany. I know at some point there might be an end (ie if something happens to my mother, then it would feel like the end of the world to me as we are very close to each other, however, she's 86 years old, and people eventually die at some point unless they are "Raptured" (one time event that can circumvent this for true Christians who are looking forward to the return of Jesus), and facing the prospect of potentially being in economic distress, I'm just relieved nothing of the sort happened and we took care of her.

Of course, it is a miracle that my mother is still here today. Sometimes we don't have much patience with her as she makes incessant demands on us, my dad is 80 years old himself and looks needs a cane to walk and he's struggling, and she makes demands on me too allot of times that tests my patience. I wish the experience would have make us more patient with her but I guess there is just allot of things going on.

In term of the other points you've mentioned, again, I didn't get any epiphany on it like you did. But again, my experience was indirect as someone else was seriously sick, and has been disabled as well for a period of time. It's just that we are close so it is personal with me.

I believe the first hand experience is very different to an experience through the second person.

When it's a first hand experience, it really hits you very hard, how short life is.. And how each moment really matters.

Personally I spent lots of time thinking about the things I should have experienced and done, when I could have.. Such as travel, meeting new people, even approaching more females.

But praying and being closer to god is something that profoundly hit me.

I hope you're mother is doing better my man.. Make the most of the time that you have right now.

 

[Divorced w 3]

Yes, I recently learned that I had a lifelong, serious condition that will persist. Personally, I took it as a positive as it is an awareness of myself.