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Finally some progress! Today was the first day I woke up and the swelling had gone down, not stayed the same or got worse… woooo!

Hopefully this will continue now i’m back on the anti-inflam and with the turbo boost of the steroids.

Woop

UPDATE: Topical spam… I’ve just had an email offering me cheap Tramadol.. no ta, I got 2 boxes already!

              

so the knee, toes and ankles are more swollen again… i’ve spoken to my doctor and I’m changing tablets again, plus… and here’s the scary bit… they’re going to give me intramuscular (updated from inter-m) steroid injections this afternoon… EEK! The doctor said it will be painful, they normally say they won’t hurt much.. and they do… so yikes!

Seeing how I can’t bend my left knee much, or my right toes at all (and they feel like they’re about to pop!), or put weight on either ankle… it’s gotta be a step in the right direction.

Hamster… I’m still undecided, it would be cool to have a pet, but i don’t have a good track record of looking after things. Anyone got any spider plants btw? I want to get some, i managed to keep one for years as a kid so how hard can it be… plus i read they’re one of the best for oxygenating a room.

Think about me, send me “it wont hurt and it’ll fix it” vibes for this afternoon

              

its been a weird few days, on saturday i started getting side effects from the anti-inflamatories i’ve been taking since dec.

After consulting with nhs direct, i stopped taking them and contacted my doctor first thing monday, after a phone consultation (incidentally props to my doctors surgery, you can’t get an appt same day, but you can get a phone call, if you then need an appt in you go same day, a brilliant way of doing it) i went in for some tests, blood pressure, pulse n stuff.

The doctor then prescribed me some tablets to counteract the side effects and told me to switch to paracetamol - plus another prescription in case they didn’t have any impact.

By tues morning i could barely move, my left knee has now swollen up

and the toes on my right foot are so big they don’t bend anymore.

After much cursing i picked up my new painkillers tramadol something or other…

Christ on a bike! They’ve not done anything so far to counter the swelling, they have made the pain manageable… and turned me into a complete space cadet! Weeeee!

I’ve also now hit a milestone… I’m on my 10th prescription! check out these badboys:

So now its 6am, i can’t sleep (is this a reversal too of the excessive sleep i had needed?) i’m in bed with a moderate head spin pondering the worlds mysteries.

Apologies this isn’t another cute animal post - thanks for all the hamster opinions, keep them coming - but i needed to do something to occupy my mind… Hopefully i can now drift back into sleep…

Update: still in bed, dozed but no real sleep, just waiting for my morning dose to kick in, then i’ll be uploading the pics.

              

I’ve been pondering getting a hamster to keep me amused during my period of illness… what do you reckon?

              

Well folks, I’m in the 1st draft editing stage of the eBook, soon to be sent to a select few early reviews… aiming for a Feb 14th release…

“You’re really nice, but…” (the nice guys guide to women)

In honour of the impending release upon the world, if you so desire you can track the sites and books progress on it’s own webpage! ooohhh!

For those of you who don’t know much about it, it’s a guide for “nice guys” everywhere… what it means when girls use those horrid 4 words… what to do about it and much more!

Using my experiences watching people meet in clubland and bars (I’ve been working in clubland for over 10 years now!)… the psychology stuff I’ve learnt (not least my Master Practitioner in NLP)… and well… having heard those lines plenty of times - I’ve stuck lots of advice together into this eBook… maybe a full book to follow, lets see how it goes.

Link above or on the right, nowt to see so far… just a temp site.

              

for the record, i have an organ donor card, i’d ask that my wishes be respected if anything ever happened to me.

How can anyone object to their useless body, which will just rot or be fried, giving another human being a greater chance of living after they’ve gone, to me that seems the ultimate selfish act to deny someone a greater chance at life for nothing more than vanity.

I love the idea proposed yesterday that only people who carry an organ donor card can recieve organs, that seems fair.