I went shopping in the daytime today ( Read more... )

Six years. It's been a while. Stuff's happened, obviously, since I was last here ( Read more... )

I was recently provided with a link to a website called Dyscalculia Forum. I think most people already know that I have dyscalculia, also known as numerical dyslexia. I wasn't diagnosed until I was in university - before that, everyone just thought I had really bad math skills. I'd also been aware of the fact that there were very few dyscalculaics ( Read more... )

I had to go to the doctor's today. The "feeling sick" that I had at the beginning of the week didn't go away, and instead was joined by constant trips to the bathroom, headaches, nausea, light-headedness and, this morning, rather excruciating stomach pain that made it very difficult, if not impossible, to work. the NHS Direct website didn't, for ( Read more... )

This story brings all of my nightmares to life.

So, for a few days now Nick has been having problems with his eyes which we assumed were hay fever related - not a big stretch seeing as he was sneezing non-stop as well, and it's that time of year. His eyes were incredibly itchy, and try as he might he just couldn't stop rubbing them. Clarityn also did nothing for him (although it did stop the ( Read more... )

I was going to post about things like the weather and one of my new all-time favourite movies here, but instead I have to go to the local A&E with Nick now, because Nick's hay fever has gotten him so bad that one of his eyes (yes, the actual eyeball) has swollen up (along with the rest of the surrounding area) and currently looks like he has a huge ( Read more... )

First off, the good news:

'Seven genetic types of ME' foundThis is obviously bloody marvelous news. One of the biggest problems with treating CFS/ME has always been that, because there isn't a specific way of testing of it or diagnosing it (other than, "We've looked at everything else and come up with nothing, so let's say you have ME," which is ( Read more... )

I nearly scared the living daylights out of Nick the other day.

Little-known fact about me: I sleepwalk. Not in the 'normal' way, mind, where people invariably seem to end up stepping out of third-floor windows and the like and landing without a scratch (because if I ever did do that I'd probably land on something sharp or on fire or similar), but ( Read more... )

My left heel is hamburger. I have a headache. For some unknown reason, my legs were utter agony when I got in from work last night - really, I couldn't sleep for hours because they were so bad. I really should have gotten up for some painkillers, but... I was just trying to sleep (plus I wasn't sure my legs would actually support me ( Read more... )