It Would Appear It’s Nothing Serious
The doctor did a thorough job and used all the equipment in his back-room to give my sinuses a thorough check-over and it would appear it’s nothing more serious than neuralgia. I’m to have a CT Scan for a final check and go back to see him in six weeks.
So that isn’t too bad is it?
He also gave me some pain killers to take before I go to bed.
Blast! I Just Broke a Glass
I like to document all my clumsiness, so that I try harder! I was looking for something to drink and found a bottle of Green’s Premium Golden Ale. it’s not my favourite, but I try to like it. Perhaps these thoughts made my hand slip with the opener and the bottle fell over on the tumbler and broke it!
I must be more careful, next time!
My State of Health
Since I ended up in Addenbrooke’s a week ago, I’ve not felt well at all.
- My teeth feel like I haven’t cleaned them in a week and it’s almost as if they’re covered in slime, which I guess is the muck pouring out of my sinuses.
- My arm and face are in pain. But it seems that my left hand is better on the keyboard though!
- But at least my eyesight has improved and I am able to use a pair of binoculars. I thought that yesterday at the football, I followed the match better than at any time since my stroke.
- My throat hurts and I suspect that is the coughing to try to clear it.
- I thought for a while yesterday that I was totally constipated, but that cleared up this morning.
- At least I’m sleeping reasonably well, but I don’t like the number of pain killers I’m taking. I’m well below limit set by my doctor, so I suppose that is one thing.
I’m seeing a consultant about my sinuses on Tuesday morning, so at least the end might be in sight.
I really hope so!
Feeling Much Better This Evening
Because of the infection I had treated in A & E on Sunday, I’ve been taking anti-biotics. And I’m feeling an awful lot better. For instance, I just got a pair of binoculars out to see if I could see any of the heavens. It’s overclouded so the stars were all obscured, but I could pick out lights in the distance easily. So my eyesight definitely is better! Last time using binoculars was actually painful.
So have I had this infection ever since I’ve come home from hospital? I really do think so!
A Bit of a Scare
I got up at the usual time of about six this morning, as I was intending to see the Japanese Grand Prix. However, within a few minutes, I had such pain in my face, that I did the only thing I could think of and that was dial 999. The thought of another stroke occurred to me, but then I could still type and speak!
The ambulance arrived fairly quickly and I was taken off to Addenbrooke’s after they found me wandering about in the house.
It turned out to be a blocked sinus, or that’s what they think it is. I’ve had bad taste in my mouth for months, teeth and cheek pain and a lot of other symptoms that fit with a severe sinus problem. I should also say, that for years as a child I suffered from the same problems and they really only went away when I went gluten-free.
At least now, as i write this, I feel a little bit better! but i must get to see a specialist.
For example could the blocked sinuses, which often cause a lot of muck to discharge into your throat and gut, be the cause of my almost permanent soft and very ginger motions?
Messages That I Like
One of the members of the UK-Coeliac Yahoo Group has told me that my typing seems to be getting better.
I like that! Thanks!
A Bone Scan at Addenbrooke’s
My gastroenterologist thought that as a coeliac, that I ought to have a bone density scan and I did today. I also decided that it would be easier, if I took the train to Cambridge and then got a bus to the hospital. I could have got someone to drive me, but in some ways there is less hassle if you take a bus, especially, as the stop is in the station forecourt.
I actually arrived early and after being booked in by the receptionist, she advised that I went and had a coffee and returned on the booked time. That shows a high degree of professionalism and confidence that the radiologist can keep to te set schedule.
They’d said if I didn’t want to wear a hospital gown, then I should wear clothes without zips and fastenings. But as I haven’t been warm for a few days, I wore my usual uniform of blue cord trousers, short sleeved shirt, jumper and Jodhpur boots. The radiologist said that would be fine, as all I would have to do is drop my trousers to my knees. I could make a comment about when young ladies say that, but I won’t!
It took perhaps fifteen minutes to do the scan, with the machine moving up and down my lower body. It was completely without any feeling and all I’ve got to do is wait for the results to be assessed.
I think as medicine progresses, we’ll see more and more specialist machines like this, developed with clever software and hopefully operated as many hours of the day as is possible. Assets should always be made to sweat!
About an hour after arriving, I was back at the station waiting for the train home.
The Effect of Calcium Tablets
I reported in Calcium and Vitamin D, that I thought that the calcium tablets were helping me get a bit better.
It is some days since I wrote that and my typing seems much better. It could also be today, that Ipswich beat The Damned United yesterday and that gave my brain a lift.
But I’m not going to knock it!
Also, my mouth seems better. I just wonder if my mouth is rather acidic and of course the calcium tablets, which are mainly calcium carbonate will neutralise the acid and generate carbon dioxide. Could that create a beneficial effect?
The Welcome Invader from the East.
After racing yesterday, I took the train from Thirsk to York, so that I could see my old boss, who was in hospital in York. He seemed better in some ways to when I saw him a few weeks ago, but I understand from his family he has a long way to go. But I know he’ll do it, as he’ll find some way to pull through. I’ll also visit him when I can, as he has been such a great support to me over the previous couple of years through my troubles and I know I must pay that back. But I’m not that good on those sorts of debts!
But as I got back from York to Cambridge for the princely sum of just £13.20, it’s not something that would worry anybody on cost grounds!
After I’d seen him in hospital, I went with his son to the local Premium Inn. They had bottles of Aspall cyder in the bar! So over 250 years after it was first brewed in Suffolk, it finally invades Yorkshire!
I certainly needed a drink after the day I’d had!
Fragile Warfarin Tablets
The pharmacist recently changed my Warfarin tablets to a different make; Teva UK, Leeds LS27 0JG.
TEVA Warfarin Tablets
Medically, I ASSume they’re OK, but I tend to break them getting them out of the packaging. The dog doesn’t mind, as she’ll eat anything that can go down a basset.
The Anonymous Widower 