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On a personal note….

So about a week and a half ago I became very dizzy. So very dizzy that the world went round and round and round and I held on for dear life to the table. I live alone. I pass out, nobody knows. Except the pets. And in desperation they might eat my dead body.

Because we know these things. But I came this close to dying from that Vertigo attack. I don’t know how but my life was this close to ending. After the vertigo stopped I vomited projectile, vicious and…well luckly I pulled a drawer out of a nearby dresser and threw up within.

Now there’s a prior account of this dizziiness stuff.

Back in June of 2018 I was on the blood thinner Coumadine. Some of you probably heard of it. Coumadine thins your blood, is not too expensive….BUT…you gotta get tested once a month. I don’t know why the test but you gotta fall between 2.3 and 2.5 or something like that.

I was forever failing and had to adjust the Coumadine and come back more often for tests.

Meanwhile in June I had an appointment with my General Practitioner. Part of my semi-annual appointments has me taking a blood test to test my sugar levels, etc. At about that same time I experienced another horrible vertigo attack.

Bear in mind that the dizziness does not stop with me close to dying. If I survive, the dizziness lasts for over a week. I cannot bend over, hell I can’t even sleep lying down for dizzy spells about to kill me.

And nobody told me the Coumadine, if I fail whatever that test was, would result in dizzy spells.

So my GP has my blood tested for sugar et al. She calls me up special.

“Pat, dear Lord. Did you know you are very anemic?”

Well no I did not know this. I was dealing with dizzy spells and failing the Coumadine test but I’ve never been anemic in my life. Meanwhile I have no fingernails, my hair is falling out and I am constantly tired.

GP tells me to take an Iron pill once a day along with a Vitamin B12. Which I do and then it gets better.

“You need to eat more green vegetables and get your strength back,” the GP told me.

Which was the worst thing she could have told me, read on.

So I decide the hell with this Coumadine and I was getting suspicious about those dizzy spells. I tell my Cardio guy to switch me to Eliquis, another more modern blood thinner that does not require those awful monthly tests. Eliquis is very expensive but considering the cost of those tests, which I was taking every other week at this point….I thought it a good idea.

You are warned, as many of you might know, that eating green vegetables while on blood thinners is risky. Nobody told me about dizzy spells or whatnot but eating spinach is evidently some kind of crime.

Cardio guy thinks my switching to Eliquis was a good idea. “And you never have to worry about eating spinach,” he says with a laugh as I’d been joking about it.

Now I don’t eat that much green stuff, no more than anybody else. But I was suspicious of those constant failing Coumadine tests and the dizziness was about to kill me.

So around September of last year I begin Eliquis and hurray! No more weekly tests.

Two weeks ago came that dizzy spell that damn near killed me.

I had eaten some asparagus prior to that, not all that much, but my suspicions were up.

Took me a week to get over those dizzy spells. Had to change the cat litter by picking up the pan and putting it on a table since I could not bend down. And because my GP has suggested those Iron and B12 pills, I began taking them and boom, I felt better right away.

So I wrote a long and crazy letter to my Cardio guy, AND my GP, and told them I am in danger of death for these blood thinners. The Cardio guy told me I had no worry about green stuff while my GP is telling me to eat more.

Cardio guy, who relented to my somewhat sarcastic email, had nurse call me. This coming Friday I will see him in his office but I cannot live with the Vertigo.

Your health is in your hands. The doctors get busy and all mixed up and I’ll never know why the Cardio guy told me don’t worry about eating green stuff with Eliquis. Evidently he got bad information on that.

Or maybe blood thinners are not for me? Or maybe I should stop eating ANY green stuff; maybe I am especially sensitive to turning my blood pink.

Indeed, my blood was a very pretty color of pink.

Sorry to take up time but who knows, when you get old you begin to need blood thinners.

DO NOT EAT ANY SPINACH NO MATTER WHAT THEY TELL YOU!

Will keep you all posted and wish me luck.