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summer_in_TX

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8. Awesome news!

Reply to littlemissmartypants (Original post)

Wed Apr 9, 2025, 05:58 PM

Apr 2025

So happy to hear it!

Labs are so important to finding the real causes of things. A friend thought she was dying and was preparing to go at age 93. She was both incontinent and incoherent. Her labs showed she had very low potassium. She lived another three happy years.

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Good news! [View all] littlemissmartypants Apr 2025 OP

Great news! gademocrat7 Apr 2025 #1

Drink to your heart's content, LMSP True Dough Apr 2025 #2

Great news, pants. Keep your fluid intake up and get some rest. I will keep you in my prayers. debm55 Apr 2025 #3

Glad to hear you are doing better, pants! sheshe2 Apr 2025 #4

Thanks for the great news, Pants! SheltieLover Apr 2025 #5

Drink up!! Hope22 Apr 2025 #6

I'm so glad it's an easy fix. HeartsCanHope Apr 2025 #7

Awesome news! summer_in_TX Apr 2025 #8

Woah! My mom didn't drink enough water during a summer month. She started having trouble speaking, and sort of passed.. electric_blue68 Apr 2025 #18

Trauma grabs us in unexpected ways. summer_in_TX Apr 2025 #21

Aww, TY! electric_blue68 Apr 2025 #22

👍💦... MiHale Apr 2025 #9

Happy to hear it! Dorothy V Apr 2025 #10

Slow and steady IbogaProject Apr 2025 #11

Good to hear, pants! 💜 Cha Apr 2025 #12

This may be just me and some people I know soldierant Apr 2025 #13

Awesome 👍 FirstLight Apr 2025 #14

This is indeed good news! MIButterfly Apr 2025 #15

That is good news. Have to keep that water intake up. LoisB Apr 2025 #16

I was dealing with tachycardia rambler_american Apr 2025 #17

Good news, and good luck! Hopefully either something that will resolve itself, or be easily managable (2nd choice). electric_blue68 Apr 2025 #19

Wonderful news!! ailsagirl Apr 2025 #20

Great news but about what were you worried? NNadir Apr 2025 #23

I had a lapse in consciousness with a fall and got hurt. littlemissmartypants Apr 2025 #24

I had something similar a few weeks back, not quite as bad. NNadir Apr 2025 #25