Today I experienced the joy which is seeing a doctor who doesn't know me. Apparently my usual GP is on holiday somewhere warm, lucky woman ( Read more... )

Am still exhausted and not very functional. Having the kind of sleep patterns where I go to bed because I'm tired, but can't sleep for ages despite tiredness; and it doesn't matter whether I set my alarm for 10, 11, 12, 1 or 2, I'm just as tired when I wake up. Oddly, I only remembered yesterday when I was fretting about the blood sugar crashes ( Read more... )

It seems not completely surprising to me that yesterday I woke up violently panicky and my left ankle was so swollen that I spent the whole day limping around at half my usual speed, leaning heavily on my stick. My physical and mental health is linked pretty closely. Nor does it surprise me that today I woke up panicky and my nose was full of dust ( Read more... )

Oh, man. My nose got blocked in my sleep last night, meaning that my mouth dropped open and I had one of my usual "can't breathe properly" nightmares. As a result, I spent some amount of time thrashing around in bed. I've woken up with my right hip in agony and my lower back completely twisted up ( Read more... )

I have quite a few regular medications on repeat prescription. For some reason, I keep getting screwed up by weekends. It doesn't help that my doctors' surgery now takes a full 2 working days to produce repeat prescriptions. It used to be the case that if I put a repeat prescription into their letter box over the weekend, they'd process it on ( Read more... )

I haven't really been here for a few days. Friday was not my last day of evil summer school after all - while the group lessons finished, a few people continued with individual lessons on Monday and Tuesday. Between working all over the weekend and the fact I'm not breathing well at the moment, I haven't had enough functioning brain to read ( Read more... )

Things you don't need on a Monday morning: waking up having a panic attack ( Read more... )

I am getting sick of hyperventilating in my sleep. I go to sleep lying on my front, but somehow in the night I keep rolling onto my back, and my mouth drops open. Then I start breathing badly, take in far too much oxygen, and have very strange vivid nightmares, which means I wake up exhausted, confused and distressed. Blah. I can do all the ( Read more... )

I have a cold. It is not fun. I honestly would not have believed that one human body could produce this much snot, were I not surrounded by the evidence. Bleurgh. Will write more (and answer my month-long backlog of email) when my brain is actually functioning.

Alexa and Rowan are here. They had major car problems coming over and were very stressed, but we did actually get to the NFT in plenty of time for the film we were going to see. (This was a truly noteworthy occurrence, as it involved herding bisexuals - two of them women!). It was Eden's Curve, a bi-ish poly-ish film which could have been good if ( Read more... )