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ellenscult) wrote2009-02-17 02:56 pm
ellenscult) wrote2009-02-17 02:56 pm
Honey, I'm home!
This are yet another 'Aten't Ded Yet!' post, brought to you from my busybusy workdesk... *grin* From which you may surmise that I'm skiving and really should get back to doing some work.
So, being not dead, I find myself continuing to recover from that wheat-induced bout of ME (see, I can type it...). My attention span is largely back to normal, which is to say that it varies between absolute single-mindedness and Ooh! Shiny! My fatigue is tiredness rather than exhaustion; the lethargy has lifted, I can walk for more than two minutes and faster than at a very slow trundle. I'm using the Wii Fit (over 10 hours of exercise logged! In a month! Woo!) and I'm cycling to the station and back on my bike. I even drove to the supermarket last night! On my own! (I stopped last month when it became blindingly obvious to me that I wasn't paying enough attention and I couldn't react fast enough and anyway all the car headlights were WAY too bright.)
I'm back at work - 3 days in last week, with 2 days working from home (the snowy ones, as it turns out, which was rather fantastic). I've even got quite a bit of work done, which is lovely. I'm not reading LJ quite as often, but I'm catching up when I do read it, but that does mean I'm also not commenting as much. I'm not reading as much fanfic over on my other lj and, related to that, I'm moving back to writing original fiction and - I hope - I'll get on top of those slushpiles which wot are waiting for me to return.
I'm learning how to make small changes in my life in order to maximise the 'spare' energy I have, so that my immune system can fix itself and I can get rid of my ME. At least, that's the plan.
I shower in the evening to wash my hair (it's long and it takes a while, but if I don't wash it at least every other day, I get a really itchy head) rather than in the morning, and I sit in the bath to do so rather than standing up. I get dried while sitting on the edge of the bath. I brush my hair, my teeth, while sitting on the lid of the loo (it's a tiny bathroom).
I'm learning how to relax my muscles when I sit, stand, lie down. I'm discovering a whole pile of aches as muscles which have been tense for most of my life, seemingly, begin to give up their knots.
I'm working on carrying only what I'm actually going to use in a day rather than carrying things just in case, or because I haven't gone through my bag in a while. I'm back to using a rucksack so that these things are easier to carry around, and I'm learning how to have a walking speed (and cycling speed) which isn't crawl or race and nothing inbetween.
I'm attempting to do one thing at a time. Or two at the most. No, really...
The most difficult thing is learning to listen to my body. How bizarre!
Anyway, I got the results of the Helicobacter Pylorii test back yesterday. One of the GPs from my surgery gave me a call. It turns out that it isn't present in my stomach, nor is anything else nasty causing my ulcers. I'm justa ball of bile and spleen producing too much stomach acid (no Alien jokes, thanks). So ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
ravenlas very kindly (because he is the best husband ever) picked up my prescription, got it filled, and as of this morning I'm now on one-a-day Lansoprazol, a proton pump inhibitor which suppresses a lot of the acid production in my stomach. I'll be on it for 3 months; in around 2 months I have to go back to the hospital for another gastroscopy to check my ulcer and those ulcerated striations have healed properly.
And that's pretty much it for muchly boring health news!
Also,ravenlas and I went to see Steve and Lesley on Saturday evening, which was fantastic. I didn't suck utterly at SingStar! Padme came and sat on my lap - twice! MotorSport Pacific Rift (I think it was) is very, very funny and completely bonkers, even while not playing using the NY fire trucks... :)
pds_lit reminded me about Ravelry... I logged onto my account - I have been too scared to - and now I fear all is lost! Doom! My inner crafter has joined forces with my inner librarian. I can CATALOGUE my yarn stash!!! If you don't hear from me again, send a search party into the labyrinth (but not equipped with a ball of yarn to guide them back out!). My username is - as always - ellenscult. I've joined the Sheepish group, since that's where I love buying wool from. At some point, thanks to the joys of wi-fi, I'm going to sit upstairs in my sewing room and catalogue my yarn. All of it. And then calculate how many years it'll take me to knit up... Doom!
Right! I probably had a bunch of other things to blog about... Birthdays!
Many happy returns of the day to
Mazel Tov to
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So, being not dead, I find myself continuing to recover from that wheat-induced bout of ME (see, I can type it...). My attention span is largely back to normal, which is to say that it varies between absolute single-mindedness and Ooh! Shiny! My fatigue is tiredness rather than exhaustion; the lethargy has lifted, I can walk for more than two minutes and faster than at a very slow trundle. I'm using the Wii Fit (over 10 hours of exercise logged! In a month! Woo!) and I'm cycling to the station and back on my bike. I even drove to the supermarket last night! On my own! (I stopped last month when it became blindingly obvious to me that I wasn't paying enough attention and I couldn't react fast enough and anyway all the car headlights were WAY too bright.)
I'm back at work - 3 days in last week, with 2 days working from home (the snowy ones, as it turns out, which was rather fantastic). I've even got quite a bit of work done, which is lovely. I'm not reading LJ quite as often, but I'm catching up when I do read it, but that does mean I'm also not commenting as much. I'm not reading as much fanfic over on my other lj and, related to that, I'm moving back to writing original fiction and - I hope - I'll get on top of those slushpiles which wot are waiting for me to return.
I'm learning how to make small changes in my life in order to maximise the 'spare' energy I have, so that my immune system can fix itself and I can get rid of my ME. At least, that's the plan.
I shower in the evening to wash my hair (it's long and it takes a while, but if I don't wash it at least every other day, I get a really itchy head) rather than in the morning, and I sit in the bath to do so rather than standing up. I get dried while sitting on the edge of the bath. I brush my hair, my teeth, while sitting on the lid of the loo (it's a tiny bathroom).
I'm learning how to relax my muscles when I sit, stand, lie down. I'm discovering a whole pile of aches as muscles which have been tense for most of my life, seemingly, begin to give up their knots.
I'm working on carrying only what I'm actually going to use in a day rather than carrying things just in case, or because I haven't gone through my bag in a while. I'm back to using a rucksack so that these things are easier to carry around, and I'm learning how to have a walking speed (and cycling speed) which isn't crawl or race and nothing inbetween.
I'm attempting to do one thing at a time. Or two at the most. No, really...
The most difficult thing is learning to listen to my body. How bizarre!
Anyway, I got the results of the Helicobacter Pylorii test back yesterday. One of the GPs from my surgery gave me a call. It turns out that it isn't present in my stomach, nor is anything else nasty causing my ulcers. I'm just
ravenlas very kindly (because he is the best husband ever) picked up my prescription, got it filled, and as of this morning I'm now on one-a-day Lansoprazol, a proton pump inhibitor which suppresses a lot of the acid production in my stomach. I'll be on it for 3 months; in around 2 months I have to go back to the hospital for another gastroscopy to check my ulcer and those ulcerated striations have healed properly.And that's pretty much it for muchly boring health news!
Also,
ravenlas and I went to see Steve and Lesley on Saturday evening, which was fantastic. I didn't suck utterly at SingStar! Padme came and sat on my lap - twice! MotorSport Pacific Rift (I think it was) is very, very funny and completely bonkers, even while not playing using the NY fire trucks... :)pds_lit reminded me about Ravelry... I logged onto my account - I have been too scared to - and now I fear all is lost! Doom! My inner crafter has joined forces with my inner librarian. I can CATALOGUE my yarn stash!!! If you don't hear from me again, send a search party into the labyrinth (but not equipped with a ball of yarn to guide them back out!). My username is - as always - ellenscult. I've joined the Sheepish group, since that's where I love buying wool from. At some point, thanks to the joys of wi-fi, I'm going to sit upstairs in my sewing room and catalogue my yarn. All of it. And then calculate how many years it'll take me to knit up... Doom!Right! I probably had a bunch of other things to blog about... Birthdays!
Many happy returns of the day to evieb, gaxx and Miss India!
Mazel Tov to vin_petrol, trash_petrol and evie_petrol on the latest addition to their family!
Plugs:
Hub - Europe's largest weekly SF, F & Horror ezine. Fiction! Articles! Free!
Pseudopod - the world's largest horror podcast. Also free!
Kiva Loans - changing the world one loan at a time.
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Ooh, if you can, get hold of the Shaun White Snowboarding Road Trip - it uses the balance board. *big grin* Family Ski is *incredibly* annoying, though - the music is some of the most irritating I've come across on a game.
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Glad to hear you're feeling so much chipperer, E!
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*hugs*
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I really must get back to using my Wii fit but at the moment I'm addicted to the latest Zelda offering :)
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