Today I experienced the joy which is seeing a doctor who doesn't know me. Apparently my usual GP is on holiday somewhere warm, lucky woman ( Read more... )

I am alive. Coping with the hiatus hernia. Perhaps in a one damned thing after another sort of way. Still, the symptoms have all improved dramatically since I started eating much smaller meals and stopping before I feel full ( Read more... )

So I haven't written anything here since July, which is impressively lax even for me. In short, I have been suffering from the worst chronic fatigue since I lived in the flat and eventually got diagnosed with hyperventilation occulta. I am playing Elder Scrolls Online and chatting to people via Skype and my ESO Guild's Teamspeak channel, but barely ( Read more... )

I did not get around to booking for BiCon. The closing date for accommodation was just too early considering that I have no idea what my health will be doing in July. If I am not much better than I am now, I will be going splat and having to go to bed in the middle of the afternoon, at unpredictable times, and it seems fairly pointless to pay money ( Read more... )

Yesterday and today, I've been wanting to talk to people but I have absolutely no spare energy with which to do so. I have reverted to taking 2000 iu of vitamin D per day as of today, because I'm shattered and not convinced that the 400 iu tablets are doing enough ( Read more... )

I have been obnoxiously ill lately - even since before I left Canada. What doctors refer to as "Tired All The Time" (TATT), in a lot of pain with my joints, plus a high pulse rate for no particular reason. Yesterday my chest started hurting - not enough to take myself straight down to A&E, but enough that I thought I should go to see the doctor ( Read more... )

Today I received a letter (re-)awarding me Disability Living Allowance until September 2018, or until they decide it's time to make me apply for Personal Independence Payment instead. It is at Higher Rate for Mobility and Middle Rate for Care, which is the Right Decision.

Apparently it was worth spending six days filling in the formI'm extra ( Read more... )

I just did something I promised to do last week… tidy up the massive pile of mail in the hall. Half an hour of non-stop sorting and I’ve done about a third of it.

You know your house is a mess when the junk mail piled up in the hallway contains a “Win a Trip to the London 2012 Olympic Games” flyer, and it's August 2015. I am not even joking.

So I haven't written anything here in over 2 months, which is probably the longest I've ever gone without updating this journal since it's existed. Mostly this has been because I've been busy enough to lack spare energy to write about what I'm doing, combined with the fact that what I'm doing isn't even interesting, but also because I need a new ( Read more... )

I am Not Dead, I'm just dealing with very low energy. As in: I had a Livejournal post all planned in my head, but after chatting on irc for 20 minutes I've lost the ability to write it. All I've been doing since coming back from Sonisphere is sleeping and playing Elder Scrolls Online, because that fulfils most of my urge for companionship without ( Read more... )