I have to admit to feeling a little worried now. This has been going on for over a week with no sign of it diminishing. The symptoms are so flakey that I can't even begin to imagine what could be the problem. Of course, it could all be a melodramatic reaction to a teeny tiny ear infection but for the fact that the doctor said my ears were perfectly fine.
At least the tablets are fun. I get a little high off them. I took two yesterday (still not up to three, which I'm taking as a good sign) and went shopping shortly after the second dose. I walked round the shop in a state of blissful ignorance to everything around me. The edges of my vision were blurry. I then found the fact that both Ray and I had estimated our shopping bill to be five pound less than it was extremely hilarious. So there are up sides to this illness ;)
Through my headaches and dizziness I've watched Lleyton Hewitt lose out at Wimbledon. That made me really sad cos he's always been my favourite. I know it's wrong of me and not at all patriotic but I'm glad Andy Murray lost today. I just don't like the boy. He's just too high on himself for my liking; he needed to lose. The final is now Federer and Roddick. I like both so I'll have to wait and see who I end up favouring on Sunday.
But aside from lying on the sofa playing Halo 2 I really haven't done much else. The tablets help me be able to take Sweepie for a walk and she's super happy in the sunshine. But I'm really not up to doing anything else, not even visiting. I've had an extremely boring and poorly-feeling week. I can only hope that next week sees some improvements. If not, I promise to dope myself up and do funny things during the high ;)
FEELING: sleepy |  |
Labels: illness, lleyton hewitt, ray, tennis, wimbledon
End Reprise
Wednesday, July 01, 2009 | 1:31 PM
Turns out it was only a slight reprise and I got sicker still yesterday.
I started feeling nauseas late Monday night and by the morning I was no better. Within an hour of being up and about I was dizzy again and it remained that way for the whole of the rest of the day. After much nagging, I agreed I'd go to the doctors.
So this morning I got up, showered, nearly vomited several times, nearly passed out on the walk over - had to use Jem as a crutch one time! I wasn't very hopeful. Doctors are usually pretty crap with illnesses that can't be treated with antibiotics. But I'm glad to say I was proved wrong. The doctor took my blood pressure, checked my heart rate (racing due to anxiety, which she was very understanding about), I had to follow her finger to make sure I was focusing okay; she then checked my ears and they looked fine. She even listened to my heart to make sure that even though it was racing (125 beats apparently) it sounded okay. She explained that in people my age it's usually an inner ear problem that causes these symptoms and that unfortunately all I can really do is lie down and wait it out. I did complain that I was missing the heatwave ;) She's given me some tablets to help with the nausea. But if I'm not better in a week I'm to go back and they'll send me for blood tests. She's sure it'll pass, that it's not likely to be something like aneamia because it came on so suddenly, but that it could take as long as two weeks to go.
I'm not too happy that there's no definitive answer as to what's wrong with me but I already knew that diagnosing symptoms like nausea and dizziness is extremely difficult. I've just to go wait it out now. I don't know what I'll do if I'm still ill once Wimbledon has finished cos what will I have to watch then? ;)
So if I'm awol for a couple of days then it'll be because sitting at the laptop is making me feel worse. I'm on the sofa now, keeping myself relaxed and not multi-tasking, as that seems to make the dizziness worse. Honestly, everthing takes so much longer when you do them one at a time ;) Wish me a speedy recovery! ;)
I started feeling nauseas late Monday night and by the morning I was no better. Within an hour of being up and about I was dizzy again and it remained that way for the whole of the rest of the day. After much nagging, I agreed I'd go to the doctors.
So this morning I got up, showered, nearly vomited several times, nearly passed out on the walk over - had to use Jem as a crutch one time! I wasn't very hopeful. Doctors are usually pretty crap with illnesses that can't be treated with antibiotics. But I'm glad to say I was proved wrong. The doctor took my blood pressure, checked my heart rate (racing due to anxiety, which she was very understanding about), I had to follow her finger to make sure I was focusing okay; she then checked my ears and they looked fine. She even listened to my heart to make sure that even though it was racing (125 beats apparently) it sounded okay. She explained that in people my age it's usually an inner ear problem that causes these symptoms and that unfortunately all I can really do is lie down and wait it out. I did complain that I was missing the heatwave ;) She's given me some tablets to help with the nausea. But if I'm not better in a week I'm to go back and they'll send me for blood tests. She's sure it'll pass, that it's not likely to be something like aneamia because it came on so suddenly, but that it could take as long as two weeks to go.
I'm not too happy that there's no definitive answer as to what's wrong with me but I already knew that diagnosing symptoms like nausea and dizziness is extremely difficult. I've just to go wait it out now. I don't know what I'll do if I'm still ill once Wimbledon has finished cos what will I have to watch then? ;)
So if I'm awol for a couple of days then it'll be because sitting at the laptop is making me feel worse. I'm on the sofa now, keeping myself relaxed and not multi-tasking, as that seems to make the dizziness worse. Honestly, everthing takes so much longer when you do them one at a time ;) Wish me a speedy recovery! ;)
FEELING: dizzy | |
Reasons For Being Ill
Monday, June 29, 2009 | 10:42 AM
At last I am feeling better! I've been ill all weekend and was starting to think I was never going to get well again.
I still have no idea what was wrong. I was nauseas and had a bad stomach all day Friday. Saturday I woke up feeling a bit better and thought I might be on the mend. By the afternoon I was falling over all over the place and had a killer headache. I never get headaches so maybe this wasn't an extremely bad one to normal people but to me it was agony. So bad I had to take painkillers, which I usually refuse to take. By the time it got late I thought I was better again only for me to feel really sick before bed again! Sunday the falling over got even worse. Just walking across the room was making me nearly faint! But by the time evening came by I was feeling better again...
And today... Well, so far I'm doing good. I haven't fallen over, haven't gone dizzy, and do not feel sick. So I'm going to go out on a limb and say I'm better. I'm going to take it easy, though, not get excited and start cleaning or gardening just yet ;) Do you know how many times I've been asked if I could be pregnant this weekend? Too many to remember. For the record, if I am then by the laws of biology it has to have happened during the last week, which means my body would be reacting to something that has barely even begun. Which is highly unlikely, if not physically impossible (I've never heard of women getting this ill this quick, have you?), plus, we are very careful so it is pretty much not possible. I just love how when you're at my age, in a serious relationship, if you get ill the first thing people ask is, Are you pregnant?. I feel like I'm letting everyone down!
Anyway, I'm feeling better today so I may stop moping around about missing Take That now ;) I'm going to spend the afternoon catching up with everyone online, watching tennis and basically taking it easy so my body has time to fully heal before I throw it back into the usual routine of my daily life. I hope everyone else had a much better weekend than I did!
I still have no idea what was wrong. I was nauseas and had a bad stomach all day Friday. Saturday I woke up feeling a bit better and thought I might be on the mend. By the afternoon I was falling over all over the place and had a killer headache. I never get headaches so maybe this wasn't an extremely bad one to normal people but to me it was agony. So bad I had to take painkillers, which I usually refuse to take. By the time it got late I thought I was better again only for me to feel really sick before bed again! Sunday the falling over got even worse. Just walking across the room was making me nearly faint! But by the time evening came by I was feeling better again...
And today... Well, so far I'm doing good. I haven't fallen over, haven't gone dizzy, and do not feel sick. So I'm going to go out on a limb and say I'm better. I'm going to take it easy, though, not get excited and start cleaning or gardening just yet ;) Do you know how many times I've been asked if I could be pregnant this weekend? Too many to remember. For the record, if I am then by the laws of biology it has to have happened during the last week, which means my body would be reacting to something that has barely even begun. Which is highly unlikely, if not physically impossible (I've never heard of women getting this ill this quick, have you?), plus, we are very careful so it is pretty much not possible. I just love how when you're at my age, in a serious relationship, if you get ill the first thing people ask is, Are you pregnant?. I feel like I'm letting everyone down!
Anyway, I'm feeling better today so I may stop moping around about missing Take That now ;) I'm going to spend the afternoon catching up with everyone online, watching tennis and basically taking it easy so my body has time to fully heal before I throw it back into the usual routine of my daily life. I hope everyone else had a much better weekend than I did!
FEELING: better |  |
Labels: children, illness, life
Disappointed
Friday, June 26, 2009 | 3:08 PM
Scrap everything I said yesterday. These next couple of days are going to suck.
I woke up this morning at 4am feeling very sick with a bad stomach. It kept coming in waves, getting worse every time. At 6am I tried a shower to see if that would make me feel better. It only made me worse. I had to lie on the bed for the next half an hour just to recover. I was desperate to see Take That, so I dragged my butt into the car and went up to Mammy's house, sure I'd feel better once I got moving. But I was wrong. As we pulled in I felt even worse and had to turn-tail and go home.
I've spent the day on the sofa, trying not to move too much, while Mammy and Jem have gone up to Manchester to see Take That :( It was a tough decision but I knew that the five-hour ride up in the car would kill me and then the three hour wait in the queue before the doors opened, added onto the four hours after that until Take That came on stage... Knowing I made the right decision isn't much comfort to me now, though.
I'm going to curl up on the sofa again and try to keep my temperature down. Because as for what's wrong with me I have no idea. I seem to have a bad throat, bad ear, aching joints, coupled with a woozy-feeling that's making me feel nauseas. Why oh why couldn't it have held off one more day? The only good thing about the last twenty-four hours was the massive thunderstorm we had last night that seemed to last all night.
I woke up this morning at 4am feeling very sick with a bad stomach. It kept coming in waves, getting worse every time. At 6am I tried a shower to see if that would make me feel better. It only made me worse. I had to lie on the bed for the next half an hour just to recover. I was desperate to see Take That, so I dragged my butt into the car and went up to Mammy's house, sure I'd feel better once I got moving. But I was wrong. As we pulled in I felt even worse and had to turn-tail and go home.
I've spent the day on the sofa, trying not to move too much, while Mammy and Jem have gone up to Manchester to see Take That :( It was a tough decision but I knew that the five-hour ride up in the car would kill me and then the three hour wait in the queue before the doors opened, added onto the four hours after that until Take That came on stage... Knowing I made the right decision isn't much comfort to me now, though.
I'm going to curl up on the sofa again and try to keep my temperature down. Because as for what's wrong with me I have no idea. I seem to have a bad throat, bad ear, aching joints, coupled with a woozy-feeling that's making me feel nauseas. Why oh why couldn't it have held off one more day? The only good thing about the last twenty-four hours was the massive thunderstorm we had last night that seemed to last all night.
FEELING: crushed | |
Labels: gigs, illness, jem, mammy, take that
Off We Go
Thursday, June 25, 2009 | 3:45 PM
I've had a busy couple of days.
I completed the first book of my new novella series. I want one last read-through and then I'm allowing it to be read by others (Jem and Ray get first reads and then I'll decide where it goes from there). I have also revamped my Joe Absolom site. It's not much different. I just changed a few things around so that updating would be easier for me. Next I'll have to sort out my writing site. I have managed to catch all of Lleyton Hewitt and Andy Roddick's matches at Wimbledon. And I've cleaned the house from top to bottom. So all in all I'm feeling quite pleased.
Now I'm off to see Take That. Which means no thinking coherently for another forty-eight hours. Sounds fantastic to me :)
Have a great couple of days... I know I will ;)
I completed the first book of my new novella series. I want one last read-through and then I'm allowing it to be read by others (Jem and Ray get first reads and then I'll decide where it goes from there). I have also revamped my Joe Absolom site. It's not much different. I just changed a few things around so that updating would be easier for me. Next I'll have to sort out my writing site. I have managed to catch all of Lleyton Hewitt and Andy Roddick's matches at Wimbledon. And I've cleaned the house from top to bottom. So all in all I'm feeling quite pleased.
Now I'm off to see Take That. Which means no thinking coherently for another forty-eight hours. Sounds fantastic to me :)
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Have a great couple of days... I know I will ;)
FEELING: hyper |  |
Labels: gigs, lleyton hewitt, take that, tennis, websites, wimbledon, writing
Explosions & Sexapades
Wednesday, June 24, 2009 | 9:11 AM
Yesterday afternoon a can of mousse exploded under my desk!
Lucikly, I'd just finished my writing for the day so my attention was back in the real world. I heard a hissing sound first and then a strong scent of mousse. I knew immediately what it was because for the past few days I've been wondering how hot it has to get to make a can explode.
There's shelves under my desk but the mousse is too tall to fit on one so I just leave it standing upright next to the shelves. Only the space under the desk is quite small so it has to sit next to my adapter-plug for the laptop. The adapter gets extremely hot. In winter months I warm my feet on it but, of course, it's summer now so the room is that much hotter. Hot adapter coupled with extremely hot day and bam! you get exploded mousse can.
Is anyone else watching Joe Absolom's new show Personal Affairs? I'm quite enjoying it :) I know I may sound surprised but that's because I am. Often Joe's shows can be a little on the lame side. He was doing one of the girl's up against the wall of a lift in one of his first scenes ;)
And, no, that's just not just why I like it (but it certainly helps ;D). I have to screencap that scene for the site. Ahh it's a hard life ;) If you can, you should try and watch the show. The story is certainly not very original, neither are the characters, but I think it's put together in an orginal way, at least. As long as you're not looking for something serious you should like it :) Plus you get to see Joe Absolom, who is such a cutie. I'm such a sucker for blue-eyed boys ;)
Lucikly, I'd just finished my writing for the day so my attention was back in the real world. I heard a hissing sound first and then a strong scent of mousse. I knew immediately what it was because for the past few days I've been wondering how hot it has to get to make a can explode.
There's shelves under my desk but the mousse is too tall to fit on one so I just leave it standing upright next to the shelves. Only the space under the desk is quite small so it has to sit next to my adapter-plug for the laptop. The adapter gets extremely hot. In winter months I warm my feet on it but, of course, it's summer now so the room is that much hotter. Hot adapter coupled with extremely hot day and bam! you get exploded mousse can.
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Is anyone else watching Joe Absolom's new show Personal Affairs? I'm quite enjoying it :) I know I may sound surprised but that's because I am. Often Joe's shows can be a little on the lame side. He was doing one of the girl's up against the wall of a lift in one of his first scenes ;)
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And, no, that's just not just why I like it (but it certainly helps ;D). I have to screencap that scene for the site. Ahh it's a hard life ;) If you can, you should try and watch the show. The story is certainly not very original, neither are the characters, but I think it's put together in an orginal way, at least. As long as you're not looking for something serious you should like it :) Plus you get to see Joe Absolom, who is such a cutie. I'm such a sucker for blue-eyed boys ;)
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FEELING: silly | |
Labels: joe absolom, life, sex, tv, websites, writing
There Is No Order
Tuesday, June 23, 2009 | 12:03 PM
I had a meltdown with my Epson Stylus DX7450 printer yesterday afternoon. You know, when the machine just won't work and in the end it literally drives you to tears? Just like that!
I bought ink for it - completely compatible ink that had the exact code on it was meant to - and even though the printer acknowledged it was in there it would not print with it. All my documents came out white. I cleaned the heads, etc. but that didn't help. And in cleaning and then printing a test page out after every clean it ran out one of my coloured inks and, bam! that was it. The printer now refuses to print anything - even though I've set it to just print black - until I replace the empty colour cartridge. The printer very nearly ended up on the pavement outside, having been dropped from a very high place. I've given up with it. It looks as though we'll have to fork out £30 for the official Epson ink catridges. Which we can't really afford :/ But without the ink I can't print out "Soul Mates" to send off to publishers to try and get published. Grr.
So to cheer myself up I went looking for a Transformers 2/Shia wallpaper. There are none out there! Have people stopped making wallpapers? Where are all the artistic fan girls? There used to be tons! In the end I had to splice two wallpapers together from this Shia site, to make this:
Yummy, no? ;)
I'm thinking of disabling the comments on here. I've always had this weird thing about comments. It's like, do I really want to invite people I don't know to make comments about the tiny parts of my life I talk about on here? I know I've made some great friends through the comments but I really don't these days. It's like the less people comment the more happier I am. Therefore I have to ask myself why do I leave the comments up? It used to be a vanity thing. How many people are reading my blog? Now I'm almost scared by how many people are (yes, I know you're out there; I have the stats). I like it that you silent people don't comment, so don't feel I'm trying to out you; stay quiet and give me peace of mind ;) I think I probably will disable them. I never had them on any of my previous sites and really only added them on here cos they were a new toy I could play with ;) Anyway, the emails right there if someone really feels riled up and wants to shout at me or congratulate me or just have whine ;)
Really these posts have become so rambling and uncordinated lately, haven't they? I think I need some order back in my blogging! I just have no discipline ;)
I bought ink for it - completely compatible ink that had the exact code on it was meant to - and even though the printer acknowledged it was in there it would not print with it. All my documents came out white. I cleaned the heads, etc. but that didn't help. And in cleaning and then printing a test page out after every clean it ran out one of my coloured inks and, bam! that was it. The printer now refuses to print anything - even though I've set it to just print black - until I replace the empty colour cartridge. The printer very nearly ended up on the pavement outside, having been dropped from a very high place. I've given up with it. It looks as though we'll have to fork out £30 for the official Epson ink catridges. Which we can't really afford :/ But without the ink I can't print out "Soul Mates" to send off to publishers to try and get published. Grr.
So to cheer myself up I went looking for a Transformers 2/Shia wallpaper. There are none out there! Have people stopped making wallpapers? Where are all the artistic fan girls? There used to be tons! In the end I had to splice two wallpapers together from this Shia site, to make this:
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Yummy, no? ;)
I'm thinking of disabling the comments on here. I've always had this weird thing about comments. It's like, do I really want to invite people I don't know to make comments about the tiny parts of my life I talk about on here? I know I've made some great friends through the comments but I really don't these days. It's like the less people comment the more happier I am. Therefore I have to ask myself why do I leave the comments up? It used to be a vanity thing. How many people are reading my blog? Now I'm almost scared by how many people are (yes, I know you're out there; I have the stats). I like it that you silent people don't comment, so don't feel I'm trying to out you; stay quiet and give me peace of mind ;) I think I probably will disable them. I never had them on any of my previous sites and really only added them on here cos they were a new toy I could play with ;) Anyway, the emails right there if someone really feels riled up and wants to shout at me or congratulate me or just have whine ;)
Really these posts have become so rambling and uncordinated lately, haven't they? I think I need some order back in my blogging! I just have no discipline ;)
FEELING: boiling |  |
Labels: blogging, comments, printers, shia labeouf, wallpaper
