My Irritabilities

So, the problem with being hospitalised multiple times, especially in a short space of time, is what it does to your life. It halts it. Not that I had much of a life to begin with, but maybe I would if I had an immune system. Immune systems are so complicated, with so many elements that need to be monitored closely. Just off the top of my head there’s, RBC (red blood cells), haemoglobin, WBC (white blood cells), neutrophils, lymphocytes, potassium, sodium, haemocrit, platelets, chloride, creatine, immunoglobulins. And that’s just in the blood; there’s the organs which work in conjunction with the blood, and/or create it; the lymph-nodes and vessels, bone marrow, the spleen. All in all, it’s incredible that all this shit, jumbled together, works in a healthy person. It’s a wonder that immunocompromised people, like myself, manage to go through any period of time without something going wrong. And for me, when something goes wrong, other things do too. It’s never a simple fix, a...