Posted on 08/02/2021 7:55:03 PM PDT by SamAdams76
Narrator: Forty-three percent of Americans say they're too tired to function. So, odds are, you're pretty exhausted. Some mornings, you might even fantasize about staying in bed...forever.
Hey, look, your wish came true! You've got food, a bedpan, and an endless stream of podcasts to binge. Everything you need to never move again. But it won't be long until you realize that you've made a terrible mistake.
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Blood clot.
Someone would have to change the sheets.
“What would happen if you never got out of bed?”
I tried it. Then I got a leg cramp. That catapulted me out of bed like a human slingshot.
To simulate low gravity effects on Earth, they got volunteers to remain as still as possible while lying down in beds 24/7.
Quite amazing what a candy bar can do!
When my dad was in his eighties, he had several falls and health problems. I recall a physical therapist in the hospital solidly cuss those lifter armchairs because they made the legs very weak.
Not necessarily in bed, but definitely on her back. ;-)
I'm up every hour or two to pee and then try to get back to sleep. Makes for long, restless nights.
I'm exhausted when I get up in the morning.
Damn diuretic my doctor prescribes to slough water off for my heart.
Excess stored iron causes heart damage. If you eat chocolate or meat, you can prevent having excess iron by removing about 500 ml of blood every two years.
If a person’s blood ferritin is less than 70 ng/ml, he has an iron deficiency.
Wasn’t diuretics rhat big L Ron Hubbard thing in the 80s? Or was that Oprah?
[[What would happen if you never got out of bed]]
Paging gilbert Grape
You want to know what tired is? Be the caregiver for a gravely ill spouse for a couple of years.
But it's not that funny when you have to get up and visit the toilet every hour or two. You're never really rested.
"When Cameron was in Egypt's Land.....Let My Cameron Go!"
You get bedsores. Bedsores are nasty.
Yeah. Caring for my Alzheimer’s afflicted mother was tough.
Leg cramps are WICKED. The pain is indescribable.
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