Bleh. I hereby declare "Slipping in and out of consciousness in between dashes to the toilet" to be the worst way to spend a long weekend. Wish I knew what caused it - the baby brought home a gastro virus Thursday night that only kept him and then his dad sick for less than 24 hours each, but I'm still going after three damn days. I didn't eat ( Read more... )

Went back to see the orthopod today. I'm 9 weeks post surgery, so he was all optimistic and stuff. Until I told him that, yes, it's still doing the lateral dislocation boogie with monotonous regularity, and while I could get on and off the motorbike and walk, I had trouble with sudden deceleration because the usual bracing I do with my legs under ( Read more... )

Hiya. Sorry to have left this for so long, but there was a significant period of self-indulgent navel-gazing black-dog-ignoring after the aforementioned nutritionist's extreme lack of tact. I've lodged a formal complaint with the hospital. Haven't heard back about it, but shall wait and see. My next appointment with her isn't supposed to be ( Read more... )

Ok. So you may remember that since the start of last year I've been having some problems with the whole food and eating and appetite and nausea thing. Naturally nobody took it seriously until it had been going for ten months without my producing a small clone, at which time I got myself referred to the Royal Gastro Clinic. Who were stumped. ( Read more... )

For two little incisions either side. Seems a bit OTT to me, but I'm sure it's necessary. Maybe it's the surgeons' equivalent of art therapy.

I now offically have a debrided right lateral meniscus. (I know because I had to read and interpret the surgery report as the nurse on the day surgery ward had no idea what all those abbreviations and ( Read more... )

Once more been neglecting this. Oh well.

Maskerade was a blast. Totally fucking gruelling once tech week started - at the theatre til after midnight every night, then two days of rest before going into a 12-day season with only one day off. Does strange things to the mind, I tells you. Especially condensing that much Pratchett into such a ( Read more... )