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

Well today I have ages to write my journal. It's nearly quarter to three in the afternoon.

Having said that, I genuinely haven't been free that much today. I've been experiencing odd periods of being extremely overheated and a bit dizzy recently, so, after my wife pretty much bullying me in to it, I followed my own sage advice from The Post and went to the doctor. She has diagnosed a nasty sinus infection (again) and prescribed antibiotics. SO I went over the road to get the antibiotics (that's where the pharmacist is, you understand) and then trudged home in the pouring rain. Now for some reason by the time I got home I was feeling hot a drowsy again. I might have been the rain, or the fact that the doctor applied careful but disruptive pressure to my sinuses, or it might have been the antibiotic.

Either way, my wife returned shortly after I did. we settled down to listen to the radio. I suddenly found myself feeling sick, dizzy and tired, so I announced that I was off to lie down for a bit. About an hour and a half later, I woke up. Feeling refreshed and much better I made us both sausage sandwiches. After that, my wife headed off to The Blind Society, where she helps out with the art group on a monday afternoon, leaving me to answer her mobile for her as she went. Then I made another phone call. Then I made a drink. Now I am here, typing this.

Okay?

Hope the antibiotics kick in soon.

Deb

Antibiotics tend to knock out the good bacteria in my tummy, making me feel . Usually it helps to boost the good guys with one of thos probiotic yoghurts.

I take acidophilis capsules when I take antibiotics, especially if I'm given amoxycilin. That goes through me at a rate of knots, turning my insides to liquid as it goes, and gives me raging thrush. But it's very effective. And the acidophilis (or the placebo effect, I really don't care which) stops that completely.

Deb

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