I had an MRI today. It wasn't for anything serious - it had just been ordered as a reassurance for me, something to close off a few more of the seemingly endless avenues that I seem to find of worrying about things being seriously wrong inside my head ( Read more... )

Once again I found myself in the doctor's office today, through no fault of my own. Yesterday, I had been feeling dizzy from when I got up - the kind of feeling you get when you haven't had enough sleep, but it stayed through most of the day. At about four o'clock, it became really bad, as if the entire room was spinning, and I had to stumble ( Read more... )

In the past, I might well have been one of those people who joked inappropriately about mental issues, with the thought that they were somehow less real than physical afflictions because of being invisible to the outside world, and that a lot of the treatment for them might be better replaced with telling those affected to get over it and cheer up ( Read more... )

It occurred to me this morning just what incredible new depths of patheticness I am plumbing with my life at the moment. I am the only person in the world who has attempted to go on holiday, found that too stressful and gone back to work instead. Yesterday, I attended my most tragic birthday celebration ever, on the other end of a Skype call to my ( Read more... )

As I'm sure you're keen to be updated on my constantly poor health as my conditions and cures continue to suck all the possible enjoyment out of life from every available angle, I've just been told that I should try to limit my intake of oxalates to hopefully prevent a repeat occurrence of last month. Even though I attempted a chemistry degree for ( Read more... )

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Have you ever gone to the supermarket while on a clear liquid diet? It's a torturous experience. Even things that you don't normally like seem to be taunting you as part of the enormous display of things that you can't eat. The only source of refuge is the juice aisle, and even then there's only a select section that you can look at without feeling ( Read more... )

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Masterfully, now that I'm on the bumpy road to recovering from last week's disaster, a case of swine flu has been discovered in the building where I work.

It's just as well I've been too sickly to actually get there for the last couple of working weeks. I imagine it's going to be pretty deserted for a while.

I was sent to the emergency room at a nearby hospital after my appointment at the doctor yesterday. I was phenomenally frightened at the idea, not only because my only experience of the inside of hospitals has been things like this - but it wasn't for anything life-threatening. My doctor just thought that it would be better for me to be properly ( Read more... )