March 2023, AFIB ablation operation done. Overnight hospital stay and I ate full hospital food menu for two days. Sadly, narcotic medicine is tough on releasing food from gut. I became painfully constipated.
Days later, I was at a performance event and was suffering. I left at ntermission to go home and took 5 times the amount of constipation medication recommended. I wanted to get that food out of my body.
Whoops! I became a bathroom prisoner. Next stage of hell was unsuccessful exits from bed. It was so bad, I thought about ordering a new carpet for the house!
Moving on…. No AFIB. Not moving on…out of breath when riding. Tiredness.
Eventually the out-of-breath went away, but not the ever lasting fatigue. I could barely handle feeding the horses at home. Fatigue struck at my upper body and legs when walking back from barn. My friend Sharon had to saddle my horse when we rode.
Just recently, I became able to saddle my horse. I can move obstacles around in the arena. I still am feeling great or normal.
Last week I realized, it was the IRON! I have not been eating enough protein! Lack of Iron causes fatigue. Who Knew!
My life has returned like it used to be. I’ve been living in the suburbs of hell and escaped back to my live version of heaven…Horse Heaven!
