Hi Lon ,nice to meet you too.
This same thing happens a lot particularly when I over do things. I am only 63 but in the last sixteen years I have had stage three colon cancer into six nodes. I had surgery and a year of chemo for that. Not long after recovering I developed acute pancreatitis and eventually lost my gallbladder. I started to suffer from auto -immune kidney disease. They thought they knew what it was and put me on 75mg of prednisone for eighteen months. It did not stop my protein loss and tipped me into type two diabetes. I have had two more kidney biopsies and the dx is auto -immune disease type unknown, origin unknown. I am on cyclosporine after my protein loss reached 7 grams a day, nephrotic syndrome. When I came off prednisone I had a massive flare of psoriatic arthritis and an MRI showed grade 2 AS with several fused vert and lars fractures. My rheumy is happy to let the cyclosporine do what it can for the AS and arthritis. I have lost the nerves in both feet and legs. A neurologist has confirmed the feeling will not comeback. A side effect of the cyclosporine has been that liver functions that have been in the red for years have dropped back to the black . they think it is mild auto-immune hepatitis.
So all in all I am pretty well stuffed. Unfortunately cancer as well as all of the other problems have led me to a solitary life . My wife got sick of me being sick all of the time and asked me to leave. So I live alone and see very few people. All of my fishing friends have died or moved on so I fish alone. I have no complaints in life apart from the fact that I am so limited and frustrated with what I can do.
Every time I get too adventurous I suffer badly for it. trouble is that there has to be more to life than just waiting around to die... Cheers Ron.