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Posted Sep 12, 2023
For open heart surgery 28 September. Also I got logged back in here.
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Gym.
Posted Apr 10, 2021
Monday. at last. will take months again to get back any level of fitness. 
not felt as unfit as I do now, for years 
Sleep still all messed up, well, I'm not sleeping full stop. since... I can't recall 
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Latest reply: Apr 10, 2021
Shingles
Posted Feb 20, 2021
Ouch.
So I got my Covid first vaccination injection, back err, three weeks ago, and then, over the next few days.... I grew me the shingles...
So I got a combination of Shingles, plus the flu-like side-effects of the covid vaccine - No idea if the shingles cropping up at the same time as the vaccine was connected or not... who knows. 
shingles cleared up after a week of anti-viral medication 
But, now, three weeks on, its agony still, I assume as the tissue is repairing itself.
It popped up on my eyelid/eyebrow, forehead, and the scalp all on one side of the face; of course on the same side I've already got a whole pile of scar tissue, and some nerve/neuropathy damage 
spots have all cleared, did so very quickly really, and just a few scabs/wounds left, where a bunch of the spots coalesced together; one in the middle of my forehead, and one, in the corner of my eyelid just above the tear-duct
Its the one on the eye that hurts the most.
taking codeine phosphate 8 X a day, and paracetamol, also 8 X a day, plus amitriptyline, now up to 50 MG a day, though, to be honest, none of them is doing sod all for the pain.
I can't go outside; about the worse pain, for some reason is 'gentle', - just the lightest of wind, across the face, and it feels like I'm about to pass out.
So, not really done anything for weeks, except reading 
of course.. 
Havent slept more than 2 or 3 hours in any 24 hour period now, for at least 3 weeks 
haven't been to the loo in a week, thanks to the codeine... - I stopped the codeine for a week, after the spots/active infection cleared up, but then the pain got a lot worse, so I went back on to it
and our oven is broken, so at the moment are waiting for 'non-essential shops' to open, so we can pick up a new one (just another cheap one, as the whole kitchen needs replacing still, once we've got the bathroom done; but we can't do the bathroom until hotels, etc., are open again properly, as we only have the one bathroom in the house) 
so just sitting reading, not sleeping, and waiting for the lockdown to end, so we can sort out the house, and so I can get back to the gym, and start feeling better hopefully 
Will phone the GP again, Monday/Tuesday, as he wanted an update on my medications and suchlike
I've just about got the new prescription for growth hormone sorted out, took from November until Febuary to get the prescription written by the hospital, and sent to the GP.
I saw the E-Mail.
Oh. My 
ing BoB.
Every single bit of the 'letter' was wrong. dose, the format, and the language used, I was shocked the GP took any notice of it. - my specialist nurse, thinks that 0.2 ML is the same as 0.2 MG. seriously. What. The. F ????
Mind, this is the same specialist nurse, who when I asked for advice on steroid updosing, for the shingles infection, she began contemplating "where I might have picked up the infection from" 
- doesn't everybody know that shingles is the infection from having chicken pox as a child, which sits out, hidden away in some nerve cells, ready to emerge if the body is under stress/immuno-compromised? 
I totally ignored her advice on updosing, BTW, as it was then utterly wrong. of course.
So, now I've lost the good, experienced specialist nurse (retired), and my pharmacist (able to do maths and calculate dosages) 
Oh, and my GH daily dose, of 0.2 MG, were I to inject 0.2 ML, would actually mean I was taking 0.66666 MG per shot. Three times! 
and even my rubbish maths ability let me work that out, approx that, in my head (yes I did confirm with a calculator, working it out in decimal and in fractions too)
BoB protect us from morons and idiots.
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Latest reply: Feb 20, 2021
Hmm..
Posted Jan 4, 2021
Quiet. innit?
not sleeping again. last four nights, less than an hour a night.
Did towel laundry yesterday, clothes laundry today. which, is about as exciting as it gets here, during lockdown, with no pubs and no gym, and... well, nothing really.
Dr appointment, for this month, now switched to telephone, which saves a trip to the hospital that is another bone clinic app, with the chief honcho consultant, as my last results were basically saying my bones are fine now - need another bone scan, but I doubt they're doing them during the pandemic, as they really ain't exactly essential/time crucial things
Still waiting for hospital endocrinology, to write a letter, or send a carrier pigeon, to my GP, to get me prescribed a different brand of the growth hormone, they've had err, four months and still not managed it, only have a few weeks left of the medication now - mind, still waiting for them to send a simular missive to the GP, requesting the bloods they're ment to do before each testosterone injection; due the next of them, by the end of this month 
- I've asked them, for both of these; and also reminded them, via E-Mail, and spoken to them on the phone regarding it also, I can't really do any more, so I'll just wait, and maybe send another message when I run out of the growth hormone, and again after the next testosterone injection, missing the bloods beforehand.
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Latest reply: Jan 4, 2021
All that Jazz
Posted Nov 27, 2020
Well, Lockdown II, The Quickening, was about as naff as most sequals. Though I fear its heading into some kind of dredful mini-series, with all the endlessness that entails, at least until March, as it may now seem.
Guttered pubs aren't now reopening, unless of course your eating which now seems the ultimate protection from the killer--virus. Perhaps rather than face-masks we should wear sandwiches or pies on our faces as protection
At least the gym is reopening from next week 
- its getting a bit cold out for that much in the way of walking 
In otter news... nothing... nothing at all just reading, and reading. finished the aaronvitch London series, and then read all the Robert Rankin books/series, which were both good authors/series still have some William Boyd left to read, but, really must try find some more authors to delve into, reading about 1 book a day ATM, sometimes more (varies from 6-8 hours (short book), to 30-40 hours (long book). the longer ones last a few days but the shorter ones vanish in a day ATM.
Currently reading the Ian Rankin Rebus series, about 30 books I think, each fairly short, so that should be nearly a months work. having said which I've read 3 of them in two days so far
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Latest reply: Nov 27, 2020
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