There is a fable which states that if you put a frog into a pot of boiling water it will immediately jump out, but if you put it into cool water and slowly turn up the heat it will stay in and die. It has been used as a metaphor in politics, business, and for climate change. Today, I'm going to use it to describe my experience with an illness I have unknowingly had for probably many months. The illness caused another condition which eventually lead to its discovery. I had a few years as a young adolescent when I was sick quite a bit. I seemed to catch everything that came around and was diagnosed with asthma at the age most kids were outgrowing it. As I became an older teen and then into my 20's I became as "healthy as a horse." Other than those few adolescent years my health has been stellar up until some point in the recent past months. I cannot exactly pinpoint a starting date of my decline, I just know it has been a while. I can't really articulate many of