Can be important for other people who are having similar experiences in life. For example, I try to share my successes and failures in medicine (regarding Doctors) and hospitals. Why?
Because this sort of thing is often scary and many people over 40 or 50 often die because they cannot navigate all the things you have to navigate to stay alive after about 40 or 50.
Without remarrying someone who has been my medical Advocate it is quite likely I would have been dead by 50 at the latest from heart problems.
Before about 44 years old I almost never went to a doctor for anything (unless it was stitches from age 15 to 44 years old). This was just me and what I had been taught by my father and grandfather that you only go to a hospital basically to die and for no other reason which is why my grandfather smuggled a gun into the hospital so he would walk out without being released and since they didn't want to be shot by someone born in the 1880s they let him do whatever he wanted to. However, he also wanted cigarettes to (reinflate his collapsed lung from a D-9 catepillar tractor turning over on him too. But that is another story.
The point is unless you can navigate everything from getting full health care insurance to having some sort of medical advocate often people are dead somewhere between 40 and 60 years old, especially men who are more macho like I was always taught to be.
For example, I want to stay physical in my life and I knew if I took strong pain killers after my robotic hernia Surgery with the best surgeon at this in the western States in Redding I might have various kinds of problems from taking strong pain killers.
So, at first I took no pain killers at all. However, then I started shaking from the pain and realized this wasn't going to work so I took an advil and a tylenol so I could sleep. However, I always took the minimum amount of tylenol that I could survive. I think they also gave me oxycodone but I didn't want to get addicted to something like that so I never took even one tablet of this.
However, I went to my 3 week later doctor's appointment yesterday and everything is perfect so far(Partly because I didn't take pain killers barely at all so I didn't tear stitches while I was on too strong of pain meds. So, for me, the only time I felt it important to take pain meds mostly is if I couldn't sleep.
Also, it was hard not being able to get out of bed by myself without help the first week too. I felt sort of helpless like a baby which a 78 year old man often doesn't like. However, my wife was a gem not only as a medical Advocate for me but also as a caregiver in my life too.
So, this whole thing has been sort of an amazing experience for me. But, I could see how most people might just die (especially men) trying to navigate all of this in their lives. So, men from 40 to 70 likely die like flies because of this (or they suffer things they shouldn't have to if they just got better medical care).
So, I'm very grateful to find out about the best robotic hernia surgeon on the west coast in Redding California who basically saved my life because I was dying in January.
So, it's good to be alive!
By God's Grace
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