Your husband and mine seem to have similar issues. Oh, my goodness. Joint pain. Fatigue. Gout (my husband refuses to take preventive med for it because he is already on several for diff things). And back in the spring, he fainted just like how you described. I was sitting at one end of the sofa, he at the other. He’d been fighting a longterm respiratory thing and had taken Nyquil. He got up to go the bathroom; I was deep in concentration (blogging, probably!). Suddenly, BOOM! I thought he’d crashed into the table and expected to see IT on the floor, but HE was face down on the kitchen floor. Knocked his teeth loose–but thank God he’s got braces . Orthodontist said it was a saving grace for his teeth on impact. I immediately wanted to call 911 but he “came to” and said he wanted to get his teeth checked! So that’s what I did, and we were in the orthodontist chair 1/2 hour later. On the way home I practically begged him to let us stop in at the ER. He said no, he was sure it was the dehydration/lung infection/Nyquil and sip of wine combined that explained the episode. A paramedic friend of mine==a MAN–said I should have taken him to the ER despite his refusal because sudden fainting can be the result of something serious underlying–something wtih the heart. When he passed out and I found blood on his face, I thought he was dead. His mom and brother died a year apart from ruptured aortas, which runs rampant now in the family, we’ve discovered thru genetic testing. So when a man refuses to get medical help, he is deep down scared . It’s not that he doubts there is something wrong, he is afraid there is really something he doesn’t want to know. Because he can’t fix it or contorl usually, or a diagnosis will be a written sign of weakness.

I didn’t realize changes were coming to feedburner. I guess I need to look into it at some point but my time for blogging and reading blogs is quite limited at present. I won’t be changing my feed for your blog right now to be honest because the changes get too confusing for me and on top of that, old feeds I have don’t seem to get deleted from my reader. I will continue to follow you as long as I can link back to your through your profile icon (left by your old or current comments on my blog). I hope that makes some sense to you.
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The beginning of your story is really intriguing to me. Not because it is my story exactly, but in a lot of ways it is, and in some ways it is the story I have almost written for myself (especially the getting a job for insurance so your husband can go to the doctor part, I’ve thought of doing that many times).

Thank you for sharing these pieces of your heart and your life. It is a blessing.
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