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Bizarre dream, Asda failure
Very strange dream a few nights ago ... someone, whom I haven't seen for years now, choking on what I think was a slice of tomato (!) ... in a doughnut shop. We don't even have a doughnut shop locally! Fisher & Donaldson are bakers who make some very nice doughnuts, and there is a little Krispy Kreme kiosk in the Overgate, but no actual doughnut ( Read more... ) -
Send for the brain surgeon
Finally, my appointment with the neurosurgeon. Good news at last ( Read more... ) -
MRI and first physiotherapy assessment
Finally, three months after the first symptom and two months after being immobilised by the resulting pain, I get both the physiotherapy assessment (which my GP had expected to be done within a week!) and the MRI scan ( Read more... ) -
Guess...
Even worse pain! The codeine appears to be doing nothing at all - perhaps explained by the discovery that my brother is a codeine non-metaboliser, a genetic condition in which the liver doesn't produce the enzymes which make codeine work. Unfortunately, it seems we both inherited this and a resistance to a common family of anaesthetics from our ( Read more... ) -
More pain!
The weekend didn't yield any improvement - quite the opposite. I'm starting to miss my kidney stones now!
Visiting the GP would be very difficult in this state, so I try a telephone appointment instead. Dr Matthews listens, understands, seems very sympathetic and writes out a prescription for a much higher dose of codeine than I had from over-the- ( Read more... ) -
Pain
A night's rest certainly didn't help - indeed, by the morning, I couldn't even get to the downstairs medicine cabinet to fetch more painkillers! (I crawled to the stairs, slid down them carefully, then was found lying at the bottom an hour or so later ( Read more... ) -
Walking wounded
It was a struggle to get to work today: I was due to work a half day in Dundee, so I planned to get in early, thus finishing early. As the saying goes, "plans never survive first contact with the enemy ( Read more... ) -
PhD!
After a long delay (apparently due to staff absence) I have official paperwork: I will be starting my PhD on Wednesday, the 1st of January, 2014. The university is, of course, closed that day, being New Year's Day. In reality, I start several weeks later, Wednesday the 22nd of January ( Read more... ) -
Exploding laptop batteries
My second MacBook Pro has taken on an exciting new shape ( Read more... ) -
Customer service
Last night, I started an online grocery order for today. Tesco would deliver for £5.50, which ASDA beat at £3.00 for a slot later in the afternoon. ASDA also has far better search facilities (you can refine your search by category, brand, type - Tesco only has a crude text search and a single restrictive hierarchy) - what Tesco does have, however ( Read more... )