12/03/2025
LIFE UPDATE:
It’s been awhile since I have last posted with the exception of sharing posts in my stories about dogs that need help out of shelters. There are so so many. As well as sharing about nutrition for our pups and kitties. Which is a good segue into what I have been up to lately…
Summer of 2025 taught us that sometimes you have to slow down even when you don’t want to. At the end of June my husband became very ill. The doctors didn’t know why. After about a month into dealing with chronic pain in his shoulder, he was told he had PMR (Polymyalgia Rheumatica). It was a misdiagnosis. He was put on prednisone long term which put him in another diagnosis of diabetes.
After months of complaints, and 2 ER visits (with the last one insisting we weren’t going home until we had answers) it was discovered after a CT scan of his heart (EVERY ekg test showed everything was normal) that he had 2 blockages 85-90% blocked.
He needed quadruple bypass surgery. The second ER visit one nurse wanted to send him home when I mentioned I needed to run home and let the dogs out. She asked how far we lived away, and said she could send him home in a cab. I told her we weren’t leaving the ER again without answers as to what was going on. It was an entire conversation which I will spare but I was no longer going to sit and be brushed off. Within minutes of returning back to the hospital after going home to let the dogs out (we live about 30-45 minutes away), we were told he was being admitted due to the blockages.
From the end of June until the middle of October (the weekend after my son’s wedding) my husband was in excruciating pain. Weeks and weeks of doctor visits, phone calls and ER visits. His wonderful surgeon told him he was lucky that he was alive, and shared with us the loss of his good friend that had the same condition as my husband who wasn’t so lucky, and lost his life.
This is a reminder to listen to your gut, and advocate for yourself or a loved one. Had I not insisted on October 14th…well this could be a different life update. I only wish I had insisted sooner. The medical system failed my father, and it almost failed my husband. NEVER AGAIN.
