Paying the Price for a Short Period of Good Health
For the most part, healthwise, I had a good week while we were at the lake house last week. And, the previous week was pretty good too. I am definitely paying the price for all that good health now though! " All that good health"... That seems to imply that I had years of good health... or even months... No, this was just a matter of 12 days or so. A body burdened with a myeloproliferative neoplasm such as Systemic Mastocytosis rarely goes longer than a few days without some debilitating symptomatology. Having 12 relatively good days was a blessing. Unfortunately, when I have a few "good" days, I tend to overdo it. I don't nap... I stray from my specialized diet which minimizes mast cell degranulation... I become active which causes a rise in body temperature which causes idiopathic anaphylaxia... activity also causes inflammation and pain in my spine due to all my spinal injuries (for those unfamiliar with my spinal injuries, the injuries inclu