“Don’t Let The Old Man In”
When country singer Toby Keith passed away earlier this year from cancer his song, “Don’t Let the Old Man In” was played everywhere. I was already aware of the song but couldn’t get it out of my head even thinking about it when I would wake up in the middle of the night and first thing in the morning. I think the biggest reason is because it bugged the shit out of me that I had in fact let him in and there was nothing I could do about it. Obviously he definitely got in with PNH, the diagnosis which was in 2020. The reality was I knew that if I was being honest with myself that he started making his way in prior to the diagnosis because the symptoms were there before I just didn’t know the cause of the symptoms. Sometime around 2015 my VA doctor in Modesto started noticing that I was becoming anemic and he didn’t know the cause. He never did find out. In 2019 I went to a GI doctor at the VA in Eugene after relocating to Oregon and he was frustrated that no one had looked at why I had An...