Isra123 wrote:
I really hope you are exaggerating your infirmities.
I also wish it were exaggeration.
I contracted bacterial endocarditis in March 2017, aortic and mitral heart valve replacement (11 hour surgery). No independent heartbeat 72 hours later, so a pacemaker was inserted (5 hour surgery). Followed by respiratory and kidney failure, I spent 2 months sedated on a ventilator. Once I began therapy, I had hypercapnia (CO2 poisoning) and oxygen deprivation, I still have PTSD and cognitive changes from this. My lungs filled with fluid and needed to be drained several times. It was at this point I contracted MRSA in the blood and had to go through a 6 week IV antibiotic (vancomycin) drip. Also had several small strokes along the way leaving me with nerve damage in both hands. I had to relearn how to swallow, feed myself, clean myself, and walk. Released from rehab center that August two weeks after my older brother died and one month before my younger brother was to. BTW, I also have Multiple Myeloma (cancer). 2017 was not my best year.
I came to the SL in March 2018 to celebrate being alive. First trip I was in a 4-wheeled walker. I decided to sell all my US properties and relocate to CR. Slowly, poco a poco, I built my strength to where I walk with only the occasional help of a cane. I have an array of medical support gear here and see Endocrinologist, cardiologist and vascular specialists regularly at Clinica Biblica. I sold my last US property in January of this year. I am in the process of getting CR residency.
I am not as good as I once was, heck, I'm not even as good ONCE as I ever was, but I still have sex three times a week with chicas 40 years younger than me (nothing under age). CR has more ups than downs. Life is good.