I’ll explain more so I don’t leave anyone in the dark. The MTHFR mutation I brought up before, it’s looking like I’m one of the lucky rare people that struggles to produce a specific enzyme to convert/regulate folic acid & vitamin B’s and homocysteine. Even despite my supplement of excess folic acid and vitamin B’s before the blood clots and afterwards with my homocysteine levels continuing to be elevated.
What this means is the blood clot is an early sign of the continued degeneration to my vascular health, and may lead to other complications down the road. Being on blood thinners is highly advised as a preventative for clots, but this restricts my abilities to a lot of activities I want to take up in life. While at the same time, it’s a high possibility there will be complications in my later years, where I can’t be all that physically active. The time is unknown, and it affects everyone differently.
I’m deciding on whether I want to continue with blood thinners, I had a long talk about this with the doc, and I’m floating more to the idea of not taking blood thinners for the time being, to allow me to jump back into MMA, get heavy into my motorcycle, which I’ve put quite a bit of maintenance on it so far. There are other adrenaline fueled things on my bucket list as well, but for a later date. He wants me on the thinners for another month to make sure there are no more undisolved clots in my lungs, stop for two weeks, then go in for more blood work to see where my clotting levels stand.
There are a few different protocols on blood thinner treatments that I am also weighing. Like warfarin is a reversable blood thinner, but requires frequent lab work as it is harder on the liver. Some of the risk takers my doc has treated skip their doses before they engage in their risky behaviors, but it doesn’t garrantee there won’t be complications, it only raises the possibility slightly of making it out alive in an accident, it’s all situational.
For my spiritual side of things. Even though this is bad news, it doesn’t phase me. Because I feel like I was setup with the best set of circimstances for something that could have turned out way worse.
I am extremely thankful I am not bed ridden right now, and I want to take this gift, and make the best out of it before I actually am bed ridden. And I realize with this condition, it’s very much a reality I could just fall over and die from another clot. If that’s the case, I rather it happen while I’m doing something meaningful and special with my life.
Not to sound tacky, but ugmuscle has a big part in influencing my health, both mentally, and physically. And it couldn’t have come at a better time. Y’all have something really nice going here, and maybe I’m ment to be here to discover new treatments for vascular health to share.
I hesitate to say God’s plan but you know… I could write a book on how coincidental my life has been the past number of months with every person I meet, every returned favor that has come back, the deeper connection with my family. I did lose friends, but I made new friends with more meaningful connections, and better attitudes. Maybe God does have a plan.
