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anyone want to come to the wedding? think we're more or less full for the ceramony at the shire hall, but there is the pub after for anyone who'd be in the vacinity... err, Thursday the 26th, starting early afternoon I think

in otter news, I didn't sleep at all last nightm and today felt better than I have in weeks; I even took morning meds and didn't respond badly to them.

dismantled bed. then re-mantled bed, in new master bedroom.

moved clothes between wardrobes,moved sets of drawers (putting the felt feet on stuff funature wise)

and moved stuff, and swept, and cleaned.

painter was painting front room, that should be finished Tuesday did laundry today too. passed out asleep about 4 or 5 PM, until 9, then had way too much Chinese for dinner. must shower soon.

Traveller in Time
"And I thought I missed the one post where you announced the event . Apparently I just found it .
Easy to remember, right after Towel Day



I would love to join in anyway. However, well lets say other obligations No chance to make it .

Why not have a talk with your general practitioner as beeing specialised in general he might be able to see an overview of your condition.

No worries about laundry , it will not off by itself most of the time ."

So...


Is permanent premod a thing now?

As I said before, I would have come, as it's right on my Mum's doorstep, but I had to be in Newmarket earlier in the month and couldn't have got more time off work. The 26th is a holiday here, but I couldn't have done it in one day.

All the best to you both - I hope the house renovations get finished on time and I wish you both the best for the Big Day and for whatever life offers afterwards.

can't make it

But all the best to the two of you

Re my GP: I keep him up to date with endocrine stuff, and my specific cancer stuff, as they all end up pretty specialised really... just hopng the nurse s can listen properly Tuesday and the tests might reveal something (my guess is my bodies own natural serkadian rhthems are not 'normal', and hence I don't get a 9 AM spike from a normal serkadian release of cortisol at about 4 AM, instead my level probably peaks a lot later in the day), just hope their testing until 4 PM is late enough in the day to show the peak; I tend to wake up by about 9 or 10 at night; although that does also rather coincide with the hydrocortisone final dose at about 4 PM having worked through my system, all my feeling ill coincides with dosage of the hydrocortisone, and a lot I think is the low blood pressure side effect (light headed, dizzy, fatigue, brain fog, water retention etc., etc.,)

didn't sleep again last night, and felt fine today all day, for a second day in a row... so, if I don't sleep at all two days on a row, I feel better than if I had have slept - guessing this is serkadian again, and/or Blood pressure related.- simularly been very busy the past two days, so that has raised my BP, and perhaps also made me feel better (oh, and I took only 10 MG each of those two days I think err... certainly today anyhow, may have had 15 MG yesterday (they want me on 20 MG).

just dropping from 20 MG to 15 makes me feel a bit better, and returns my eating/hunger vaguely to normal, 10 MG I feel a thousand times better and have normal hunger (the hydrocortisone also messes about with insulin and blood sugar an aweful lot, long time use often causes diabetes eventually (as well as brittle bones etc)

well paimting in front room now finished <cool. DEcorator back Tuesday to finish off, tidy up, fit new lights and curtains etc.

bought some more furnature fro bedrom today, which is arriveing tomorrow, and also a writing desk for W, plus a stool, and a filing cabinat, all arriving tomorrow.

no matter how often I sweep upstairs, more comes off the floor did more laundry today, and tidying, and sweeping, and clenaing and stuff, all on no sleep, and I felt fine. Must start cooking dinner son then as its a nice evening I think to the pub for an hour or so furnatur e arriving tomorrow, some to assemble, (loverly huge set of tall draws for the bedroom in natural wood, to match the floor and the skirting etc) so have that to assemble, and must try get out to get my hair cut and have my ears repearced after the first attempt sealed itself up immediately on removing the studs (bloke at the tatoo and pearcing place is doing it for free... I'm still trying to persuade someone to let me have more pearcings ) pizza for dinner I think

Good luck for Tuesday - I'll be thinking of you. I do worry that the blood tests aren't reading right because the cortisol is in you rather than in your blood, hence adding more makes things worse rather than better, but it sounds like you'll have a good conversation with the nurse and try to work things out

Impressive progress on your decorating

All the best for 26th, too - I won't be in the area, but I look forward to reading about how you enjoy the day

I just hope I remember the day; memory is so badly affected by the hydrocortisone... Assuming I'm not feeling so ill I can't make it of course... see what you mean about the cortisol, the results and numbers are more or less meaningless anyhow, 'normal' range of the hormone is so wide, and the normal range is only a range anyhow, so I assume some people fall either side otu of the range, yet are still 'normal' for them... as it were... my last 9 AM reading for cortisol is within normal range as far as I'm concerned, yet they consider it not to be... - lots of talking to em is needed, and to look at my leg swelling; asides anything else, I mentioned that to oncology back last year (they ignored it); blood clots in the legs is not uncommon for people who had the chemo drugs I had, and hydrocortisone itself can cause leg swelling (not sure how, I think by messing with potasiium levels etc...)


so tired. and exausted. so much to do this week now though, all the moreso as all day tomorrow is gona be at the hospal - hope they can find a vein this time. that works...