Koya
Footballguy
PLEASE READ, SORRY FOR LENGTH, BUT IMPORTANT.
I don't need to rehash the sadness that is our loss of Tremendous Upside. One of the greatest people I have ever known.
For those that recall, and for those that don't, Sean's loss was due to one thing at root - his unwillingness to see a doctor.
Now, he was hardly the picture of health, but even when he got really sick, would just battle through. To be honest, that's exactly how I used to be as well.
Fast forward to now... as some know, I'm in the hospital with Divirticulitis. After battling some illness for nearly two weeks, I finally went to my doc. Got on meds, was feeling better and then ten days after the doc, I was really, really hurting. At first I figured just ride it out, after all I've been miserable for a couple weeks, what's one more day. Anyway, something told me that I just had to consult the doc... it's a good thing I did.
I have a hole in my colon. It had been leaking, but thankfully my body self contained the leak. When getting the run down from the Surgeon this morning, she told me that when I came in, it was so acute, she is surprised I didn't need emergency surgery (will have to have part of my colon removed, but in a few weeks.
So, out of curiosity, I asked the Doc - what might have happened if I hadn't gone back to see the doc (who sent me to the hospital). Her answer?
"It would have eventually burst and likely sooner rather than later. You would have needed immediate emergency surgery.... or worse."
Im not looking to hyoperbolize at all. This is straight truth. Now, was I one day from potential death? I don't think so. But it appears that the situation was far more dire, and time sensitive, than I realized. Heck, I was a few hours away from the need from emergency surgery when I was examined in the ER!
Sean passed away after dealing with an illness that was not too different than mine. Except he just refused to see the doc. Like I, and many of us would have, he just rode it through "like a man"
Had Sean just seen the doc, we'd still have him, today. And as part of his wonderful legacy as a person, and a friend, we, his close friends, have vowed to take better care of ourselves and insist others do the same.
PLEASE... don't man up. It's not manning up. It's taking the ##### way out in fact. For some reason its just easier to sit home in pain than get up and deal with the doc. Just go see the Doc. Not for me, not even for Sean, maybe not even for YOU - but for those you love and who love you.
Thanks you.
cue NBC's "The More You Know"
I don't need to rehash the sadness that is our loss of Tremendous Upside. One of the greatest people I have ever known.
For those that recall, and for those that don't, Sean's loss was due to one thing at root - his unwillingness to see a doctor.
Now, he was hardly the picture of health, but even when he got really sick, would just battle through. To be honest, that's exactly how I used to be as well.
Fast forward to now... as some know, I'm in the hospital with Divirticulitis. After battling some illness for nearly two weeks, I finally went to my doc. Got on meds, was feeling better and then ten days after the doc, I was really, really hurting. At first I figured just ride it out, after all I've been miserable for a couple weeks, what's one more day. Anyway, something told me that I just had to consult the doc... it's a good thing I did.
I have a hole in my colon. It had been leaking, but thankfully my body self contained the leak. When getting the run down from the Surgeon this morning, she told me that when I came in, it was so acute, she is surprised I didn't need emergency surgery (will have to have part of my colon removed, but in a few weeks.
So, out of curiosity, I asked the Doc - what might have happened if I hadn't gone back to see the doc (who sent me to the hospital). Her answer?
"It would have eventually burst and likely sooner rather than later. You would have needed immediate emergency surgery.... or worse."
Im not looking to hyoperbolize at all. This is straight truth. Now, was I one day from potential death? I don't think so. But it appears that the situation was far more dire, and time sensitive, than I realized. Heck, I was a few hours away from the need from emergency surgery when I was examined in the ER!
Sean passed away after dealing with an illness that was not too different than mine. Except he just refused to see the doc. Like I, and many of us would have, he just rode it through "like a man"
Had Sean just seen the doc, we'd still have him, today. And as part of his wonderful legacy as a person, and a friend, we, his close friends, have vowed to take better care of ourselves and insist others do the same.
PLEASE... don't man up. It's not manning up. It's taking the ##### way out in fact. For some reason its just easier to sit home in pain than get up and deal with the doc. Just go see the Doc. Not for me, not even for Sean, maybe not even for YOU - but for those you love and who love you.
Thanks you.
cue NBC's "The More You Know"
Liver working surprisingly well.
