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peanutt121 posted...

For the moment skipping the original injury in 1972 (17 years old) that took 2 years and 32 major surgeries to fix, I had an outpatient mesh hernia repair in 2003. When I got home (drove myself) the 300yd driveway to my home was plowed in so I had to go get my snowblower and do the driveway before I could even get into my house. I had taken a week off from work but still had a business to run, but I had no signs of fatigue and was pretty much back to normal that same evening (49 years old). At age 63 (2017) the leg that had been repaired in 1972, but had been pretty much useless since, had a dormant infection reappear and caused me to have to have it amputated. I was in hospital about a month and a rehab unit about another 3 weeks learning to walk with a walker, balance and all the safety shit while waiting to heal enough to get a mech leg. I had plenty of energy at all times and spent most of my time trying to tell the doctor I was ready to go home but they wouldn't have any part of it. They finally got the message when I hopped on one leg around the physical therapy room for about 40 yards with no support.

Back to the original injury. I still remember the day they said I could go home, I literally walked from the hospital to my friends house on crutches (about 2 miles) and then about a mile from his house to the bowling alley to wait for my parents to get off work to drive me the 10 miles to our home. I was sore as hell the next couple of days, but no fatigue or stamina issues.

Not sure what that all means to you in your case but I was never particularly physically fit or athletic in any way, but none of my surgeries ever caused any stamina issues. The only thing that ever hit me hard that way was a severe case of food poisoning I had when I was about 36yo that left me weak as a kitten for about a week. Go figure?

As I was saying before, underlying health issues probably have a big effect with all this. I had Ehlers-Danlos syndrome, dysautonomia, fibromyalgia, PCOS & asthma before gallstones hit me.

It's like with my latest hospital stay - I had the flu after a week in Dublin for Worldcon. The hospital doctor outright stated that if I hadn't already had so much to deal with, the flu "would have bounced off" me.

Unfortunately, the dehydration caused by vomiting & the runs combined with my autonomic nervous system impairment(s), and that left me in & out of consciousness for at least 24 hours. Because I live alone & my care hadn't settled back into place yet after my convention trip, I had to wait til I was coherent enough to ring an ambulance. I wound up spending 36 hours in-patient on a saline & anti-emetic drip to rehydrate me & rebalance my potassium levels before I could go home.

But, and this is the real point, I would never have wound up there in the first place if I weren't already chronically ill.
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