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That's the type of IT that would have driven me to put a gun in my mouth. I've done everything on the other end - Zero Day infections, malware, building and testing images, HW/SW break/fix, stabbing in everything from servers to switches, data center on-call, network admin on every level there is, every sort of troubleshooting you can think of. I'm the older, grizzled Dutch boy who had to plug his fingers and toes in the dike to keep the whole thing from coming apart. I can't do anything like I used to. No more lifting printer or UPS banks into racks, pulling cable, or even sitting at a desk for eight hours at a time. My fingers don't even work properly on a keyboard anymore. My brain can still go like a house on fire, but below the neck, I've got so many issues I'm lucky I'm not wearing protective headgear and an exo-skeleton. LOL I still get around, but as an example, we were going to church last Sunday, and my wife turned to me and said, "What is wrong with you? You're driving like you're 90 years old! Pick a lane and stay in it!" That, from a woman who used to always howl like a banshee about me doing Warp Three on the interstate. LOL We have the same doctor, and after my last episode, she told him about it during her exam. He didn't even look up from his laptop. He just shook his head and told her I was just falling apart. Boy, that's comforting. 🙄

I'm much the same. I've built data centers, pulled wire, set-up racks of blades with VMWare, loaded all the OS (Windows, Linux), performed the DSS lockdowns, endured the audits for IATO/ATO, played sysadmin to a network of 80 machines with 30,000 users. Fun stuff.

I just ordered a set of Cardiff S1 skates. I usually skate on my inlines with carbon fiber boots, Millmar or Lebada rails, 80mm wheels and ABEC 5 bearing. When I did it on a regular basis, I could cover 5 miles in 20 minutes. I lost a lot of muscle mass burning down from 191 to the current 146 lbs, so I'm expecting some challenges. I can still kick start my Yamaha SR400 or ride the Harley Fat Bob. Hauling 50 lb bags of salt to the basement is something I loathe, but it's necessary for soft water.

The major health issue for me is rheumatoid arthritis. 800 mg of ibuprofen at bed time to knock the pain down to tolerable levels to sleep. I knew it was coming at age 20 in grad school (immunology class). My wife is struggling with diabetes. That disrupts her sleep and mine. We'll both work a few more years to maximize our retirement savings.

Last week I was trying to type up a task for one of my staff in JIRA. On the phone in meeting. Handling 2 different conversations in the Skype IM (texting) and monitoring a system repair in MatterMost (persistent IM). A 3 ring circus. After all of that died down, I had to track down a crash in a Java program. I immunized it against the missing XML elements, but then had to backtrack 2 levels in the system to discover the root cause as a missing JSON name/value pair that misdirected the XML input that I needed. That's why weeks run 55 to 70 hours.

That certainly wasn't a comforting retort from your doctor. Hopefully you get better guidance in the future to stop falling apart. There's time to turn it around.