h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

- the computers at Argos are apparently melted today, by the heat... W went to pick up at least one, maybe both of my recent EBay purchases.... all the staff were standing outside, the shop doors wide open.... and unable to sell anything or let anyone collect parcels, as their computers had melted in the heat

Went to gym yesterday, as it was hot, I didn't do so much direct cardio work, just a short twenty minutes (5 KM) on the exercise bike, then did some other stuff instead... pull ups, lots... some weight work with kettle weights (about 8 KG), then some odd bits n pieces, like step exercises, and using some weird rope things, to kinda work my back and arms, against the weight of my body, and of course the ladder and stretching stuff, and more pull ups... and some punch bag

Didn't feel tired at all... but did it feel so warm when I came out of the gym, and from air conditioning to no air conditioning arms noticing it a bit today.
hmm. not even sure I should do pull ups, surely that is more than 20 KG or whatever it was the cardiologist said I can't lift more than for the risk of rupturing my aorta mind, I'm still not even quite sure if she ment 20 KG per arm, or both arms combined

Got home and once I'd stopped sweating a little (the heat is enough to make me sweat at the moment, let alone with added exercise), I showered, thenw went out last night for ten pin bowling.... ten pin apparently no longer y airconditioning.... and that was painfully hot so of course I had to drink 5 pints of (well its half price there on Tuesday nights so that wasn't even overly expensive...)

Had wild rice salad last nihgt and finished off that today, with some more salad, for lunch, to finish the rice... no idea what we'll do for dinner tonight, its too hot to want to cook much... over 30 degrees C inside the house....

Was up early this morning, so we went out for a walk... by the river... for an hour and 45 minutes about 8 miles I think maybe a bit less...

W has gone for a nap, I tried but its too hot and its noisey outside anyhow... wish this heat would go I'm constantly drenched in sweat from within a minute of getting out of the shower - autonomic nervous system things, like temp regulation and sweating etc, are broken thanks to the hormones and I wasn't exactly that great with heat even before the hormones went AWOL Actually, I expect a lot of the heat thing and sweating etc, is hypothalamic in nature, more neurological than endocrine, though of course with the overlap between hypothalamic and pituitary it is more likely a bit of a mix of the two....

Got a letter through from Papworth, cancelling the MRI scan on my broken aorta and brain and stuff, but rescheduling it for the previous day

Phones them up, explained they've still not contacted me to confirm I can have the scan (they were worried out possible metal clips left in my bbrain), - they now have conformation from Addinbrookes neurology that I don't have metal clips, only, they'd not phoned me as they said they would, to let me know this
Pointed out to them, that being blind, and unable to drive, I had arranged transport for the appointment, now canceled, and that I had no idea if I could make new transport arrangements for the day before the origional app. - they did a verbal equavelent of a shrug, 'not our problem'. great. still trying to get hold of the person who said they could give us a lift to the origional app, to tell him, that it isn't on that day now, and find out if he's availible for a trip the day before instead, if not then I cna't go, and they can rearrange me a scan at a hospital we can get too, Addinbrookes, London, Leeds, anywhere but a hospital in the middle of nowhere with no public transport.

Still not had any blood results back from the hospital, from the last bloods I had done, I should chase them up, maybe this time I need to Email them again, and politely explain how they could help me, by E-mailing them and ignroing their 'confedentuality ' thing, which apparently means they can't E-mail results, - afterall they do seem blissfully unaware section four of the DDA has now applied to hospitals for quite some time and they have a legal obligation to provide information in accessible format, its not like I'm requesting they Braille it, or anything that would even cost them money, I'd just like them EMailed.

Despite being hot and sweaty, I'm coping oddly well with the heat, I never used to like hot weather at all (anything above 19 degrees C being hot), and its now been several days at about 29 or more pretty much all day and most of the night, yet, it doesn't seem to be making me feel as ill as it normally does.... - looking at other people with secondary AI and Addison's, across social networks, proves this is not just odd, but, seemingly polar opposite, I've seen a few people driven into crisis and hospitalised due to the heat, the past few days, and others having all kinds of sodium/pottasium problems, and undue swelling and suchlike
Think I'll go to the gym tomorro mowning, hopefully as early as possible, just a bit after 9 (I assume they are busy just before 9 in the AM), probably just some cardio and free weights and bench pressing tomorrow, I save the more exotic things wfor when I'm in with the PT as he knows what he's doing

may head out tonight, after dinner for another hours walking if its cooled nicely

might do another salad tonight, if I can be bothered to cook up some bulghur and maybe pearl barley, to do a salad with that.... if not... probably just salad with pasta, as that only needs three minutes or less to cook the pasta, and so far less steam to thicken the air further