CoupleOfDays...
There has been lots to tell since i last wrote, but i don't promise to do it all justice as i haven't the head for writing on me at the moment. I just figure though, that now is the best time to at least try and write stuff down, as this week looks like being pretty hectic, and alan and i are away next weekend, so there will be no time at all then.
I was actually in the middle of an entry about how my headache had come back whilst in work on Thursday, but before i could finish and post it, it got so bad that i became quite upset by it. Plus it had begun to make me feel sick, which wasn't helping me to remain calm about everything. I just felt dreadful. So anyhow, to cut a long story short, after a lot of fuss (on my part i'm ashamed to say) my boss sent me home, under the advisory that i go to the hospital to see the emergency GP. So Cat picked me up from work and took me there and we waited about for a few hours and i saw a really nice doctor, who much to my relief didn't think i was some hysterical woman who had come to A&E just for a headache! He sent me to have an x-ray too, which panicked me a bit, as i hadn't expected that. But when it came back it was a huge weight off my mind, as it showed that i don't have any damage to the bones in my head or neck and more importantly, no lumps or scary things like that. However, he said that i did have something which i think he said was called muscular spinosis, which is something to do with the muscles in your neck and that area misbehaving for some reason, mostly lost in this little head of mine. But it explains the headaches and the loss of feeling in my left hand that i am occasionally prone to. Now i have 3 sets of tablets to make me feel better when i need them too. But knowing that its not something really scary is the best thing. My headaches don't instantly get 4 times as bad because i now don't have to worry about what's causing them :-) But the big message was also to just s-l-o-w down. Which i am going to do my best to do.
Mmmmm. Vanilla candle. I love that smell.
The weekend was quite interesting, though as short as ever in feeling. Friday night, Alan and I went to see Eddie Izzard at the M.E.N and he was fabulous! The funniest thing i have heard in a long while, and definitely went a long way towards my much needed cheering up. I probably can't do the show justice here, so i won't try, but we had a wonderful time, and i would definitely go and see him again should another tour come to Manchester!
Annoyingly, the Christmas shoppping is still at the 'almost finished' stage. However, the remainder that needs to be acquired is now the responsibility of Alan, who will be the one going into town when it is mad mad mad to find it. In a bid to cheer me up some more, on saturday Alan let me pick my Christmas present from him, but even though it is gorgeous and very exciting, i am not allowed to act like i know what it is, or talk about it til after Christmas when i can have it. I was allowed to tell Cat though. I don't think i would have been able to manage without telling someone! The next major thing to think about is cards though, especially those for the people i know who live away from Manchester.
I MUST get on with making inroads into my coursework too. Despite being anxious when the titles were late, i have managed to do a big zero amount of work on the project since receiving the title a fortnight ago. Don't know how that happened. But i plan to choose my project and begin a plan tomorrow night, along with some tentative research into where my materials are. Then do some database hunting on Tuesday night, so that early wednesday i can go to the library before it gets busy and pull copies of those cases / articles i need to get read. If i get all that done, and perhaps some actual reading as well, i shall be a happier bunny at this point next week.
Hmmm. Been online for a while now and no sign of cat. Nosy me wonders what she is up to!
I was actually in the middle of an entry about how my headache had come back whilst in work on Thursday, but before i could finish and post it, it got so bad that i became quite upset by it. Plus it had begun to make me feel sick, which wasn't helping me to remain calm about everything. I just felt dreadful. So anyhow, to cut a long story short, after a lot of fuss (on my part i'm ashamed to say) my boss sent me home, under the advisory that i go to the hospital to see the emergency GP. So Cat picked me up from work and took me there and we waited about for a few hours and i saw a really nice doctor, who much to my relief didn't think i was some hysterical woman who had come to A&E just for a headache! He sent me to have an x-ray too, which panicked me a bit, as i hadn't expected that. But when it came back it was a huge weight off my mind, as it showed that i don't have any damage to the bones in my head or neck and more importantly, no lumps or scary things like that. However, he said that i did have something which i think he said was called muscular spinosis, which is something to do with the muscles in your neck and that area misbehaving for some reason, mostly lost in this little head of mine. But it explains the headaches and the loss of feeling in my left hand that i am occasionally prone to. Now i have 3 sets of tablets to make me feel better when i need them too. But knowing that its not something really scary is the best thing. My headaches don't instantly get 4 times as bad because i now don't have to worry about what's causing them :-) But the big message was also to just s-l-o-w down. Which i am going to do my best to do.
Mmmmm. Vanilla candle. I love that smell.
The weekend was quite interesting, though as short as ever in feeling. Friday night, Alan and I went to see Eddie Izzard at the M.E.N and he was fabulous! The funniest thing i have heard in a long while, and definitely went a long way towards my much needed cheering up. I probably can't do the show justice here, so i won't try, but we had a wonderful time, and i would definitely go and see him again should another tour come to Manchester!
Annoyingly, the Christmas shoppping is still at the 'almost finished' stage. However, the remainder that needs to be acquired is now the responsibility of Alan, who will be the one going into town when it is mad mad mad to find it. In a bid to cheer me up some more, on saturday Alan let me pick my Christmas present from him, but even though it is gorgeous and very exciting, i am not allowed to act like i know what it is, or talk about it til after Christmas when i can have it. I was allowed to tell Cat though. I don't think i would have been able to manage without telling someone! The next major thing to think about is cards though, especially those for the people i know who live away from Manchester.
I MUST get on with making inroads into my coursework too. Despite being anxious when the titles were late, i have managed to do a big zero amount of work on the project since receiving the title a fortnight ago. Don't know how that happened. But i plan to choose my project and begin a plan tomorrow night, along with some tentative research into where my materials are. Then do some database hunting on Tuesday night, so that early wednesday i can go to the library before it gets busy and pull copies of those cases / articles i need to get read. If i get all that done, and perhaps some actual reading as well, i shall be a happier bunny at this point next week.
Hmmm. Been online for a while now and no sign of cat. Nosy me wonders what she is up to!