It's Been A Minute

Hey, it's me Snarf! I've been gone for quite a while and I apologize for that, but mental and physical health has to come first. But don't let that make you think I have been neglecting my crypto projects. Quite the opposite if I take a big goosey-gander at my BlockFi account. But more on that later.

Cushings Disease

So, for those that have not been in the loop, I was diagnosed with Cushings Disease in July 2021, and in August I had brain surgery to get a pituitary gland tumor removed. I will admit, healing from the surgery was not as fun as I was hoping, but I've finally gotten to the point where my life has done a 180 and I'm back out and social. 

Cushings is a disease that can be caused a few different ways, but is characterized by too much cortisol in your system. Cortisol is the stress hormone, so I was constantly in a state of stress. A tumor was pushing on my pituitary gland and making it send bad signals to my adrenal glands and making them constantly secrete cortisol. There are a lot of side effects from this such as low testosterone and high blood pressure just to name a couple. 

Diagnosing is hard because you have to narrow what your symptoms are caused by. A majority of the time doctors want to say you're just fat and unhealthy and try to pawn it off as some other issues. But once you do get it diagnosed, it's fast track to getting to the operating room.

Needless to say most of my symptoms have completely subsided and I am back to the self I was around age 19 and earlier. I have a lot of lost years of health to make up for and I am rearing to go.

My... Bitcoin?

Crypto waits for no one, not even people who are having brain surgery!

I had a lot of crypto at the I went into surgery but once I was able bodies again I decided to take a look at all my holdings, traditional and crypto. I had a lot of alt coins on KuCoin and it turned into an impressive $12k USD in value at the time of looking. I decided to consolidate it and turn it into BTC and send it to my BlockFi account. Although Bitcoin is down right now, I was able to get a decent size holding. This is putting me even closer to my goal of 1 BTC by 2025 (stretch goal).

Gaining 4.5% on BTC is very miniscule compared to other DeFi services but BlockFi is in the US and I have been in contact with actual people from the company quite a few times which is nice to have. Usually I am essentially trading with a faceless text screen swapping around alt coins.

With That Being Said...

I am hoping to spend a lot more time here and contribute a lot more content in the near future. So be on the look out for more posts from me to come.