Came close.
On the 26th, I'd been feeling shitty and short of breath for a few days and just figured I had a cold or something. I took some Nyquil and lay down to try and take a nap. This just made me more short of breath until I called my mother for a ride to the doctor to see what was up. She'd been talking to my sister who freaked out and called 911, which it's good that she did because when I tried to move I didn't make it six feet before I had to sit back down gulping for air. They gave me oxygen and put me in the ambulance and took me to the hospital where I spent a week on oxygen while they took tests. I had a bronchial infection, and my blood sugar was really high so they say I'm diabetic now, though I'm not sure I agree with it. I think the high blood sugar was just from being sick because it's been fine since it came back down.
The east Indian specialist says he thinks I have a pulmonary embolism blood clot in my lung somewhere but they can't put my fat ass in an MRI to scan and be sure. The African M.D. has me on some blood thinner called cumadin or something but they can't give be the clotbuster blood thinner because they're not sure that there's even a clot there and it's too dangerous to give it to me if there's no clot.
I'm posting this from the therapy clinic I've been in for the last couple of weeks that the social worker woman said I'd be in for three months while they watched me but now she says I'm going home on the 21st because the physical therapy people say I'm fine and mobile and breathing now.
So maybe I'll go home and be okay or maybe a clot will break loose in my lung and kill me sometime in the next month or two, who knows, who cares, fuck it all and carry on my wayward son I guess.
Don't know why I'm even posting this here, really, except for posterity or whatever, or maybe habit. I stopped posting here because I was sitting here one day and suddenly realized that I didn't really like most of you people very much, but for some fucked in the head reason I felt it needed posting here.