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My Body is Falling Apart, But Does it Have to Take My Mind Too?

Why didn’t anyone warn me it was going to be like this?

Iva Ursano
6 min readJan 9, 2025

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I got up to pee 4 times last night before I finally fell asleep at midnight, and when I woke up at 6:30 this morning with a kitten making biscuits on my forehead, it felt like I hadn’t peed in days.

What the fuck is happening to me?

I’ve always had a bladder problem, but this is borderline ridiculous now. Looks like I’ll have to stop drinking anything at 4 pm instead of 6.

And did I already take my vitamins this morning? Shit. I don’t remember. Can it hurt to take 500 mg of Magnesium instead of 250? I doubt it.

I’ll have to Google that.

Google is my best friend and worst enemy at the same time. It’s obliterated my blogging business, but it gives me all the answers I need to the questions I should know the answers to.

Why don’t I know these things anymore?

The body I can deal with

Body parts hurt, skin is crepey, eyes are full of floaters, and where is my hair going? Sweet geezus.

I’m not super thrilled that my face is falling and I have wrinkles on wrinkles…

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