Date:	2009-11-09 09:00
Subject:	First frost
Security:	Public
Mood:	tired

First frost of the season and I have celebrated by not getting any deep sleep last night. I'd forgotten how bleary that makes my mornings. Send coffee.

Need to really start watching what I eat again, in the last month I seem to have put on half a stone...

Date:	2009-11-08 17:40
Subject:	A good day :)
Security:	Public
Mood:	cheerful

We started lazily with pottering and knitting this morning. After a bacon muffin for lunch we headed to a garden centre where fen_wolfchile's mum had seen gloves that might be long enough to fit my really long alien hands. Gloves were tried on and turquoise gloves purchased, then round to the in-laws' to show them the new gloves and ended up leaving them there as they are to become my birthday present :) After that we popped in to see Karl for a cuppa and took away books he wanted charity shopping as we have a car and he doesn't. Since getting home I have organised the charity shop pile into three boxes and a bag, fen_wolfchile has tinkered with Karl's vacuum cleaner so it should work again, I have made a batch of soup for lunches next week, and my wonderful husband is currently preparing Goan-style Hot and Sour Pork :D

Date:	2009-11-07 13:21
Subject:	yey for sunshine!
Security:	Public
Mood:	cheerful

We have been out in the garden :) Ant has been pruning and I have done some much needed weeding and planted my daffodil bulbs :) Bacon and egg muffin for lunch :D

I went for a little wander at lunch, and found myself at Knitty Gritty in the Victoria Centre Market. They have lovely exciting yarns and I showed tremendous will power in leaving them all there! The nice man gave me some flyers to take to knit club on Monday too :D

... don't tell anyone, but I think I might be getting it all under control :D

Date:	2009-11-02 21:47
Subject:	yey!
Security:	Public
Mood:	cheerful

First wedding anniversary at the weekend, we had a lovely meal out on Saturday at the hotel we got married in. I felt very pampered :D

Sunday, our actual anniversary, was a lazy day of bacon muffins and Grand Prix, and later on some fizzy wine :D

Today I have been back at work for the first time in nearly a month, and I've had a really good day! I have de-spammed my inbox, looked through all the emails and even dealt with some of them. The mountain of paper on my desk has been reduced to a small hillock (to be fair most of it just needed scanning and filing, but it was very satisfying to see it go down), I am on post all week so spent an age sorting that out until lunchtime because I had Friday's post as well as today's because of the strikes, and I am now all organised and know what the first couple of things I'm going to do when I get in tomorrow are :)

So far this evening I have washed my hair, eaten very yummy lamb curry, and tessellated some fish :D

Date:	2009-10-29 17:31
Subject:	What I have been doing
Security:	Public
Mood:	cheerful

As I've grumbled about, I've not been able to read with this bug, however knitting easy things has been fine, so this week I have been knitting baby hats :)

MISI shop

Date:	2009-10-28 10:24
Subject:	labrynthitis
Security:	Public
Mood:	sick

Hmm... just heard from someone who is in week 3 of having labrynthitis triggered by a virus

When I had the initial attack it was like the room spinning, but now I would describe it more like seasickness and a lack of balance. It comes and goes, some days are better than others. I also get headaches which are like the beginnings of a migraine and goes down into my inner ear. If I can stop what I am doing and sit/lie with my head straight and eyes closed, that relieves it.

I can knit and read but only if I concentrate on that and don’t look up. Being on the computer is not good and I can’t drive. I am taking the same tablets that you are. Have you tried googling it?

Does this sound the same as you?

Yes it does, it sounds exactly like me, except I can't read without triggering the headache.

I had ruled out labrynthitis as at now point had I felt like the world was spinning, although way back on the 6th Oct when this all started the room was not as it should have been when I got up, but my head hurt so much and I felt so sick I didn't really register the room moving as well. But the seasickness, yup, that's what it feels like now.

I have been good, I have made notes with a timeline so if I'm not well enough to tackle work on Monday I can take them to the Dr's, and after typing them and this I am going to put the laptop to sleep and do something that doesn't involve moving or text as I'm starting to feel queasy again :s

Date:	2009-10-26 09:33
Subject:	Back to the Docs
Security:	Public
Mood:	down

I did not make a miraculous recovery, so it's back to the Dr's with me this morning instead of back to work :(

I am finally on the mend, just nowhere near well enough yet to try and get to the office. I can now read text for 5 to 10 minutes before the splitting headache and feeling sick kicks in, which is a definite improvement on when just trying to focus on the text had that affect. Also walking around unsupported now only feels like I'm on a boat in a choppy sea rather than on one in a storm, still feeling sick though :(

I have been passing the time by looking into knitting things to sell on misi to bring in a little extra cash as quite frankly we need it, but I'm not sure i can be bothered with it all today.

Am not enjoying being stuck at home, it's making me depressed :(

Date:	2009-10-21 15:40
Subject:	Still alive
Security:	Public
Mood:	blah

Not a lot to report as I'm not doing anything, but I'm still alive!

New anti nausea pills are making a difference in that i get a couple of hours after each one in which i don't feel nearly so sick, and last night I slept better as i didn't feel sick when turning over in bed. Hadn't realised how much this bug thing had affected my sleep until i got six hours straight!

Other than that I have been knitting blanket squares because i don't need to read a pattern to knit those (reading makes my eyes and head hurt, which makes me feel sick)

Date:	2009-10-19 09:43
Subject:	Another week
Security:	Public
Mood:	sick

I have been to the Dr's. He has signed me off for another week, given me different anti nausea pills to try as the last lot didn't work, and I have to go have blood tests - kidney function, liver function, thyroid, non-fasting glucose, pregnancy, and another one.

Having peered in my ears last week he looked in my eyes today as the headache is generally round my forehead but sometimes behind my eyes.

He said he's not sure what it is, as he would have expected a virus to have shifter after 2 weeks and I'm no better at all, although he also said there are some nasty ones that hang around a lot longer.

I am to go back next Monday if there's no improvement, and before then if there are any changes for the worse.

I am lying on my sofa again

Date:	2009-10-17 15:37
Subject:	Ok, I was wrong and you're all right
Security:	Public
Mood:	sick

even thinking about trying to go to work on Monday was a stupid idea

I just walked round the corner and back with my stick and very nearly was sick rather than just feeling very sick :s Before I moved I was sitting on the sofa, now I'm lying very flat as it's all I can do without wanting to hurl - thank goodness for lightweight macbooks is all I can say!

I really hope it doesn't rain before Ant gets home as I am in no fit state to go and fetch the washing in

Date:	2009-10-16 10:42
Subject:	Hmmm..
Security:	Public
Mood:	blah

I think I can honestly say that I feel no better now having had a week off than I did on Monday. Moving still makes me want to hurl and sets my headache off, even with the anti-nausea tablets. Lying down is good. Sitting makes me feel slightly queasy still but that's OK, I can generally work through it. Even standing isn't too bad as long as I have something to lean on as my sense of balance is still shot, and I don't try to move anywhere. Did I mention the moving makes me feel sick?

My early morning trips to the loo still make me feel like I'm going to be violently sick, although i haven't been sick once so far.

As I managed a day and a half at work feeling like this at the end of last week I am tempted just to go back in on Monday. I can catch the horrendously expensive tram up from the station, settle at my desk, not move much, and get stuff done. However the disapproving look i got from the Dr when I mentioned I'd been to work feeling like this and the speed at which he then signed me off leads me to suspect that the medical opinion on these things is that if moving makes you feel sick then you shouldn't be going to work. In which case I should probably be calling them again on Mon to get another appointment... but there's things and stuff that need doing at work. *dither*

I hate being off sick

Date:	2009-10-15 10:34
Subject:	still on the sofa
Security:	Public
Mood:	blah

Nothing much to report, except today I am lying on the other sofa for a bit of a change of scenery. By the time I went to bed last night and the night before I didn't feel too bad, then I wake up needing the loo in the early hours of the morning and it feels like I'm going to be sick as soon as I move, and then the headache joins in :( More sofa guarding for me! Just hope it's cleared up by Monday, I could do with being back at work.

Date:	2009-10-12 16:31
Subject:	Signed off
Security:	Public
Mood:	blah

I have been signed off work for a week with a viral thing and given instructions to lie down, rest, take paracetemol and drink lots of fluid. I have also been given anti-nausea pills :( Dr took my blood pressure, looked in my ears and down my throat and said he doesn't think it's anything sinister, but if it's not gone in a week to go back and see him again.

I suspect I probably shouldn't have gone to work last Thurs and Fri, but I can get a long way on caffeine, sugar, and sheer bloody mindedness

Glad to be lying back on my sofa though

Date:	2009-10-12 14:43
Subject:	Weekend
Security:	Public
Mood:	blah

Lovely weekend away in Snowdonia, all very pretty. We looked round a castle, and ate lovely ice cream.

Unfortunately the headachy sick thing did not go away with relaxing and a change of scenery, in fact it has arguably got worse. Drive there on Fri afternoon was fine, but I was most miserable after the drive home yesterday - felt better almost instantly as soon as I lay down though.

Dr soon, hope he can fix me.

I think I would like to go back to that bit of Snowdonia again, without an ear thing next time, I'd get more out of it

Mainly for me so i don't lose the link and can read it later

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/has-science-found-the-cause-of-me-1799944.html

Date:	2009-10-08 10:53
Subject:	made it
Security:	Public
Mood:	accomplished

I made it into work today, on time, of which I am very proud. OK, i took the tram one whole stop from the station to do it, but there was no way I was going to walk up that hill!

I have a large bottle of coke as the thought of coffee just turns my stomach, and have sorted out the urgent fund stuff I need to do today. There's a large pile of it, and I suspect it will be an all day job. I am cheerfully ignoring the last two day's worth of post sitting at the end of my desk.

The considered opinion in the office is that I might not have a viral thing that can be ignored until it goes away. Apparently there is an inner ear bug that only goes away with antibiotics which if you're lying down you feel fine, but as soon as you sit up, stand up or move makes you feel really sick. That's me that is! I'm hoping it clears up over the weekend, but if not I have an appointment with the Dr already booked for Monday as part of my ongoing Fibro check ups so can mention it to him then.

Date:	2009-10-07 16:48
Subject:	today
Security:	Public
Mood:	tired

I have got up, had breakfast, showered, dressed, been to a meeting from 11 until nearly 4 when I got home, keeled over, and am now back on the sofa with my headache.

Spoke to director who was at meeting him, told him torrow's goal was to get to the office to process the fund switches, that i made no guarantee as to when i would get in, and that anything else that got thrown at me tomorrow was likely to be ignored. He's a nice man, he was OK with that:)

Date:	2009-10-06 11:06
Subject:	sofa is my friend
Security:	Public
Mood:	sick

I have not made it to work today. I spent much of yesterday in work feeling a bit queasy with a faint headache, which I put down to tiredness and was ignoring. When I got off the sofa to go to bed it felt like my head was going to explode and I would be sick right there and then. Still, good night's sleep and it will all be fine right?

Nope, woke up this morning feeling better, then I stood up and it felt like my head was going to explode and I was going to be violently sick. I have not gone to work, I have let my lovely boss know, she is going to let directors know (which sounds a bit ominous), but right now I don't care. I don't care that I have a large pile of stuff to do, I don't care that I have hit the magic 3 absences that starts to impact pay reviews and bonuses which were only announced yesterday, right now all I care about is moving as little as possible to stop my head exploding.

I have made it from the bed to the sofa mind, change of scenery and all that.