The Anonymous Widower

A Funny Turn On Friday

Thursday, 3rd August

I’d slept with the window open, as I often do and woke up to a very damp bedroom. I suspect, that I’d had a similar incident to the one in My Strange Skin.

I measured my INR at 0800 and it was 2.4.

I had my usual bath and breakfast in Leon on Moorgate.

Afterwards, I just went home and added to this blog.

One thing I noticed was that my left leg was going dead, as I sat on the chair typing. but then that happens regularly. It was similarly to the incident in Saved By A Beer?.

Later I had a tremendous itch in my left foot which I treated with copious amounts of the Body Shop’s Hemp Foot Protector.

Friday, 4th August

I had intended to go to the section of the city wall, that has been put on display at City Wall At Vine Street.

But as I was bumping into people and street furniture, I thought there might be something wrong, so I diverted to the A & E at the Royal London Hospital. I was also dropping my brief-case, when I held it in my left hand.

After various tests, including a CT-Scan, I finally left at 21:30, after they’d found nothing serious.

They measured by INR and they said it was 1.9. As I’d not eaten or drunk, large amounts of food and drink, that would drop my INR, how did it drop by 0.5 in 24 hours?

I went home on the Overground and a bus.

Saturday, 5th August

I wasn’t feeling unwell at all.

I was in all day watching the sport.

I was drinking a lot. Perhaps it was 4-5 mugs of tea and a 500 ml. bottle of Adnams 0.5 % Ghost Ship.

Sunday, 6th August

Very much like Saturday, except that I had lunch with my granddaughter.

I had two bottles of 0.5 % beer.

Monday, 7th August

I measured my INR at 0800 and it was 2.8.

August 7, 2023 - Posted by | Health | , , ,

2 Comments »

  1. I am glad that your are OK – I don’t know much about INR, although my dad took warfarin. After 5+ months of being unwell myself, we finally have an answer and I have tablets to take, and I feel very very well. I don’t think the recent up and down weather is helpful to anyone though.

    Comment by nosnikrapzil | August 7, 2023 | Reply

    • I have a very strange skin.

      My Strange Skin

      This means that in the right conditions I dehydrate fast. I’m certain, that’s what happened on Friday. Physics dictates that if your blood loses water, your INR goes down and the blood is more likely to clot.

      People might even be more likely to get a stroke in hot weather.

      Comment by AnonW | August 7, 2023 | Reply


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