I Missed You All...
Hello everyone. If you are reading this, I thank you for visiting my blog, and I hope you like what you see. If this is your first time here, this post may mean nothing to you. I apologize in advance for your time, please go ahead and read the subsequent articles about the Flyers and have a great time doing so :)
This one is for last season's readers, as well as the good folks at Genemix Industries, who vouched for and have supported me from my first post.
You may be thinking to yourself "Why hasn't he really posted anything all summer?". I mean, things happened over the summer. Ilya Kovalchuk and the Devils learned that trying to circumvent the collective bargaining agreement is really bad. There was a complete fire sale in the Windy City, as the Blackhawks dumped ten players after winning the Stanley Cup. Even the Flyers, the very basis of this blog, saw a ton of free agent signings, crucial injuries to Chris Pronger, Ian LaPerriere and Michael Leighton, and much more that I will think of when it isn't 1:00 in the morning.
I got sick. Really, scary, sick. I owe those of you who don't know an explanation.
I was diagnosed as pre-diabetic when I had my heart attack in the spring of 2009. It was never really an issue until recently. I carried on through my days at 415 pounds, chain smoking, eating take out and watching hockey. Sounds fun, right?
Around the time last season's playoffs hit the conference finals, I started peeing alot more than I used to, and I started having weak spells. Nothing that stopped me from writing or living. Doctor chalked it up to a bladder infection and too much Wawa Lemonade Tea (c'mon locals, holla at some tea!). Around the time the playoffs wrapped up, it started getting a little worse. Same problems, but I couldn't eat anything. I started losing weight. This made me happy!
But as the summer moved along, I got sicker and sicker, eventually getting to a point where I could barely get out of bed. Doc finally calls for blood work, and sees that all the things that say I have full on diabetes, say just that. So he finally gives me a blood tester thing and tells me to head home.
Two days I was sitting in an emergency room as doctors frantically tried to get my blood sugar down from over 600. It took them five days, but they finally got it down to under 200. My heart problems also reared their head, as every time I got out of the hospital bed, my heart rate shot up over 160.
There were some adjustments and things that had to be done when I came home. New diet, new drugs, needles.
Oh yeah, I moved to a new place in the middle of all this.
They told me I could have (maybe should have) died from the blood sugar thing. But I didn't, so here I am, to hell and back.
I'm 80 pounds lighter, I eat better, feel better, and am once again a handsome bastard. But with that being said, guys i'm really sorry. I had a responsibility to maintain this blog for my friends and fans who wish to read it. I hope to not let you down again.
The Flyers look really good this year. I look forward to covering them, I hope you look forward to reading about them. It's my hope that next summer, i'll be healthy still, writing about the parade down Broad Street.
Thank you all, let's have a fun season together, and god bless.
Slainte'
~Moose
This one is for last season's readers, as well as the good folks at Genemix Industries, who vouched for and have supported me from my first post.
You may be thinking to yourself "Why hasn't he really posted anything all summer?". I mean, things happened over the summer. Ilya Kovalchuk and the Devils learned that trying to circumvent the collective bargaining agreement is really bad. There was a complete fire sale in the Windy City, as the Blackhawks dumped ten players after winning the Stanley Cup. Even the Flyers, the very basis of this blog, saw a ton of free agent signings, crucial injuries to Chris Pronger, Ian LaPerriere and Michael Leighton, and much more that I will think of when it isn't 1:00 in the morning.
I got sick. Really, scary, sick. I owe those of you who don't know an explanation.
I was diagnosed as pre-diabetic when I had my heart attack in the spring of 2009. It was never really an issue until recently. I carried on through my days at 415 pounds, chain smoking, eating take out and watching hockey. Sounds fun, right?
Around the time last season's playoffs hit the conference finals, I started peeing alot more than I used to, and I started having weak spells. Nothing that stopped me from writing or living. Doctor chalked it up to a bladder infection and too much Wawa Lemonade Tea (c'mon locals, holla at some tea!). Around the time the playoffs wrapped up, it started getting a little worse. Same problems, but I couldn't eat anything. I started losing weight. This made me happy!
But as the summer moved along, I got sicker and sicker, eventually getting to a point where I could barely get out of bed. Doc finally calls for blood work, and sees that all the things that say I have full on diabetes, say just that. So he finally gives me a blood tester thing and tells me to head home.
Two days I was sitting in an emergency room as doctors frantically tried to get my blood sugar down from over 600. It took them five days, but they finally got it down to under 200. My heart problems also reared their head, as every time I got out of the hospital bed, my heart rate shot up over 160.
There were some adjustments and things that had to be done when I came home. New diet, new drugs, needles.
Oh yeah, I moved to a new place in the middle of all this.
They told me I could have (maybe should have) died from the blood sugar thing. But I didn't, so here I am, to hell and back.
I'm 80 pounds lighter, I eat better, feel better, and am once again a handsome bastard. But with that being said, guys i'm really sorry. I had a responsibility to maintain this blog for my friends and fans who wish to read it. I hope to not let you down again.
The Flyers look really good this year. I look forward to covering them, I hope you look forward to reading about them. It's my hope that next summer, i'll be healthy still, writing about the parade down Broad Street.
Thank you all, let's have a fun season together, and god bless.
Slainte'
~Moose
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