I'm looking in to iron supplements, because apparently I'm mildly iron deficient. This may be related to ongoing health not-right-ness. I have a post I keep meaning to write about correlation and causation, the starting point of which is that if you find that A is correlated with B, there are five possibilities, namely: A causes B, B causes A, some ( Read more... )

It was great. Just an ordinary day, half a mile there with them on their scooters, half a mile back on my own. It's not always great. I've not been able to do it for about six weeks. But this morning it was good: we were all happy going along together. I am very lucky.

This entry crossposted to http://doug.dreamwidth.org/288170.html, where there ( Read more... )

Blimey, this is turning in to a sickness blog ( Read more... )

Saw locum GP again today. The sputum culture has come back, and they've found Haemophilus influenzae, which was resistant to amoxycillin, clarithromycin, and erythromycin. That would explain why the amoxycillin wasn't fixing everything, and taking a macrolide (clarithromycin, erythromycin, or azithromycin) probably wouldn't have helped anyway ( Read more... )

Saw GP. The great news is that most of the blood work has come back and is all well within what you'd expect for an infection. That's very good because it rules out all sorts of nastinesses that would show up as seriously abnormal on those measures (including leukaemias). I also officially don't have HIV ( Read more... )

So the Cold of Doom is a little more serious than I had thought. I finally went to see my GP, who gave me:

• a mild chiding for leaving it so long (apparently you should see a GP after 5 days of fever)
• a prescription for amoxycillin (along with a rationale that convinced me I should fill it & take it, which took a bit of doing),
• a battery of blood ( Read more... )

I am extremely fed up with this cold of doom that has now lasted more than a bloody fortnight. Earlier I was most frustrated by it making me dopey and thick-headed. (Those who thought 'how could anyone tell?' can launder my handerchiefs.) But today I'm feverish, headachy and can't even face breakfast, which is a Bad Sign. Worse, it's caused an ( Read more... )

Feeling sorry for myself in bed today with a cold brought on by my own bad planning. On the upside, it's a chance to write down something that's been in my head for ages: all this talk about 'peak Apple' doing the rounds online at the moment is almost certainly right, if a year or so late, IMO ( Read more... )

I'm feeling very pleased with myself. First day at work, and my contact lens was bothering me - bit of grit or fluff or something in it. But I'd left my solutions and the handy emergency storage case thingummy at home. Previously, I used daily disposables, so I would've just whipped it out and chucked it. But I've switched to monthly disposables ( ( Read more... )

So **FIXME slammed my head in a door last night ( Read more... )