Ive been seeking wisdom on how to help my mom with my potential death. I havent been able to breathe well for the past 3 weeks. Was in the ER and they couldnt find whats wrong. Doc said see your primary asap. For me thats another 3 weeks. I need to find out whats wrong now but I dont have a family member or close friend who is a doctor and has access to CT scans or angiogram equipment. I dont want to die. To Seneca's point, I really did not expect to be hit with this problem. I felt healthy and strong and workout regularly. Im 37. Im living a good life at my house with my lovely dogs and suddenly I feel weird tightness in my chest and cant breathe. Now I dont know how many days I have left, even if I can make it to my doctors appointment. All my calculated plans and beautiful dreams seem like misty nothings now. Life is crazy.
Crazy indeed. I hope you're ok! (Did you have an mRNA shot recently? Unexpected chest pain could be a myocarditis symptom, if I'm not mistaken. I don't know much about that issue, but I know myocarditis can be a side-effect of mRNA vaccines.) And I hope some insights from Seneca could be useful to you or your mother! I'll give you one myself: You could be dead tomorrow, but so could I, and you certainly don't know that you _will_ be dead tomorrow, and worrying doesn't help anyway! So don't worry! (If you wanted it I could give you bigger advice than Stoicism! In Boethius' _Consolation of Philosophy_ , Lady Philosophy consoles Boethius with weaker medicine, and then with stronger medicine when he's strong enough for it. Eventually she works up to religious medicine! Stoic insights are somewhere in between the weaker medicine and the best, religious medicine.)
@@TeacherOfPhilosophyI did get the pfizier vaccine for covid back around october. Right now though Im hoping its not something terminal, whatever it is. But regardless...Ive come to realize the truth that nobody can really know how long he has to live. I used to fully believe, in my mind, that I wasnt going to die at my current age and present time. I used to think it was basically impossible this could ever happen to me. Inconceivable. Maybe a car accident. But a serious health problem? No, never, or so I thought. Of course even if youre a safe driver some nut can change lanes and ram into you all of a sudden. But I had like this delusional certainty I would get to live until old age, at least 50's, unless something really crazy happened. I was really expecting to see my life dreams realized by my own mind and actions, adventures and experiences waiting there ahead of me in the journey for many years to come. But this terrible experience, a waking nightmare of breathlessness and heart fluttering and bodily unease, the fear of losing conciousness at times, this has really altered my understanding of life, of reality. Its been a great shock to me. Maybe I will get better. I dont know. Thank you for your insights and kindness.
I'm guessing October is too long ago for that to be related. Well, I hope you're ok physically till 50 and beyond! If you feel like mentioning a diagnosis here when you have it, I think I'd like to hear it!
Ive been seeking wisdom on how to help my mom with my potential death. I havent been able to breathe well for the past 3 weeks. Was in the ER and they couldnt find whats wrong. Doc said see your primary asap. For me thats another 3 weeks. I need to find out whats wrong now but I dont have a family member or close friend who is a doctor and has access to CT scans or angiogram equipment. I dont want to die. To Seneca's point, I really did not expect to be hit with this problem. I felt healthy and strong and workout regularly. Im 37. Im living a good life at my house with my lovely dogs and suddenly I feel weird tightness in my chest and cant breathe. Now I dont know how many days I have left, even if I can make it to my doctors appointment. All my calculated plans and beautiful dreams seem like misty nothings now. Life is crazy.
Crazy indeed. I hope you're ok! (Did you have an mRNA shot recently? Unexpected chest pain could be a myocarditis symptom, if I'm not mistaken. I don't know much about that issue, but I know myocarditis can be a side-effect of mRNA vaccines.)
And I hope some insights from Seneca could be useful to you or your mother! I'll give you one myself: You could be dead tomorrow, but so could I, and you certainly don't know that you _will_ be dead tomorrow, and worrying doesn't help anyway! So don't worry!
(If you wanted it I could give you bigger advice than Stoicism! In Boethius' _Consolation of Philosophy_ , Lady Philosophy consoles Boethius with weaker medicine, and then with stronger medicine when he's strong enough for it. Eventually she works up to religious medicine! Stoic insights are somewhere in between the weaker medicine and the best, religious medicine.)
@@TeacherOfPhilosophyI did get the pfizier vaccine for covid back around october. Right now though Im hoping its not something terminal, whatever it is. But regardless...Ive come to realize the truth that nobody can really know how long he has to live. I used to fully believe, in my mind, that I wasnt going to die at my current age and present time. I used to think it was basically impossible this could ever happen to me. Inconceivable. Maybe a car accident. But a serious health problem? No, never, or so I thought. Of course even if youre a safe driver some nut can change lanes and ram into you all of a sudden. But I had like this delusional certainty I would get to live until old age, at least 50's, unless something really crazy happened. I was really expecting to see my life dreams realized by my own mind and actions, adventures and experiences waiting there ahead of me in the journey for many years to come. But this terrible experience, a waking nightmare of breathlessness and heart fluttering and bodily unease, the fear of losing conciousness at times, this has really altered my understanding of life, of reality. Its been a great shock to me. Maybe I will get better. I dont know. Thank you for your insights and kindness.
I'm guessing October is too long ago for that to be related. Well, I hope you're ok physically till 50 and beyond! If you feel like mentioning a diagnosis here when you have it, I think I'd like to hear it!