Day eighty one

It's 11am and no post! But yesterday evening the pain started again. Sometimes it feels like a presence that doesn't want me to sleep. I woke up before 4am this morning with the feeling like someone was inside me shooting arrows into me. It's funny that that was the thought - it wasn't like being stabbed (I have never been stabbed, so I have nothing to compare it with) because it was too pointy. So the thought came of bows & arrows.

Then, around 9:15 I decided to go for a walk. Exercise is one of the things they recommend for my various identified issues. I got about 100 yards before the pain kicked in (I have never been kicked, but I can guess what it feels like). Where we live there are no garden walls, so I couldn't sit down. I carried on, stopping from time to time until the pain went away.

And now it is bearable. But I am tired!

Next week I have to order another "Fit Note". I think I will ask for blood tests for cholesterol and blood sugar at the same time. That might get something moving. When the NHS sent me the text telling me my blood sugar was high a note went on my NHS App saying I had been put on a "Diabetes Prevention Programme". If I have (and this was last October) the programme mustn't have started yet. But I am curious to see if the statins have reduced my cholesterol.

It is fascinating (to me at least) that I can have so many things wrong with me all at once. I remember going to see a doctor during Covid, because, for the first time in my life I had an ear infection. They checked my record and I hadn't seen a GP in the previous 10 years. And now I'm a frequent flier; regular customer.

The antibiotics I was prescribed for the ear infection was the last time I had to pay for a prescription. I'm glad I don't have to pay now. I have never had so many tablets.

But, definitely, when I go back to work in March I will be "Fine". I will not talk about this again.

That's the plan at the moment anyway!