Off to hospital tonight :|

Good luck dude, make sure you pay the £5 a minute internet fee to keep us in the loop.

If hospital doesn't help, try extremely diluted apricot pits.

They gave you an injection to test your blood-oxygen saturation? They can test that by putting a "magic thing" onto the end of your finger.

I forgot to get the curry out of the freezer last night.

*taps nose and nods*
When the seagulls follow the trawler, it is because they think sardines will be thrown into the sea.

I knew exactly what Mr Cantona was talking about when he said that, and still don't to this day understand the brouhaha over the statement.

I knew exactly what Mr Cantona was talking about when he said that, and still don't to this day understand the brouhaha over the statement.

Paging Dr House!

Be well, Rich..

“Found it! Turned out he had a tick on his vagina.”

#notes" class="postlink">Update, for those of you not directly following my blog (I'll stop spamming links if everyone is already reading it over there though...)

What's your concern around travelling - flying while on Warfarin, potential DVT complications (if they find a clot but don't identify a source), or not being able to get insurance?

or not being able to take needles on planes

I concur with the wellwishers. Please get well, Rich, I hope it's just patheticness on your part

I have a tummy nay I have struggled to eat properly for a few weeks now. More or less every time i have a meal, my stomach feels like it's having a battle with itself. I have been drinking Milk of Magnesia (bleugh!!) and reducing what i eat to basically next to fuck all. I haven't had a meal since Friday and last night I had a sausage and a piece of toast and this morning, my stomach was like a huge bloated rock Urgh.....time for a doctors appointment I think.

Ditto. I hate needles too, though.

On the bright side, this is exactly the sort of thing that gets you well accustomed to it. After a year of having to stick myself 3 times a week, I am now not even slightly bothered by needles.

Last Tuesday I went to the doctor's with a dry, hacking cough I'd had for a couple of weeks and get every so often. They started to chase a diagnosis of asthma. I did peak flow readings, but they were all super high, suggesting no asthma; plus Ventolin didn't help at all. Over the weekend, I started getting breathless with a 100+ bpm heart when doing anything physical at all - even walking up stairs. I'm also fatigued and achey all the time and I still have the cough.

At a doctor's appointment today, she was a hair's breadth away from sending me to hospital for observation for the breathlessness and high heart rate I am suffering from, following an ECG (which was clear) and Pulseox test she didn't like the look of. As it was, I got a strong dose of antibiotics in case it's a bacterial infection, and I have to go back for more tests tomorrow. If I disappear, I'm in hospital. Next most likely diagnosis is a viral infection; then obscure-ish variants of pneumonia etc, and some way out on the probability curve after that is a blood clot on the lung. I'm statistically at a very low risk of that, but I'm a bit alert to the possibility because of recent events.

So, umm, yeah.