A quick update on recent ‘events’. Continue reading
Random gruntings
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Upwards and onwards?
On Friday I received the following from the NHS specialist I saw at the end of May.
Out
Yesterday’s vigil for Orlando was the furthest I’ve gone from home (cyclemeter map) in weeks, apart from medical appointments. I’m very glad I went, not least because I met by chance with a former colleague from my publishing career.
I couldn’t hear most of the speakers but the First Minister’s message came through loud and clear:
We stand here in defiance of hate with a very clear message – love is love.
A true Scotsman?
Don’t read on unless you really want to know about my innards. This post is mostly so I can record what happened while I still remember it. Continue reading
Up periscope – again
Some of the following may be gross. Continue reading
Progress?
My appointment with the private GI specialist took place yesterday. It had been set for 09:45 but early that morning I was asked to if I minded a postponement to 2:30 pm. There had been some sort of emergency that had upset the doctor’s plans – I don’t recall what it was. Continue reading
Not diseased
I forgot to say that whatever is wrong with me, it’s not coeliac disease. It turns out that the blood taken at my appointment with the NHS specialist last Monday was to test for this. My GP could access the results but the specialist’s secretary has not phoned to tell me. This is despite her promise to do so once she had typed up the notes from that appointment. Bah!
On yer bike!
Elly’s Tour de Forth souvenir
There are glimmerings of recovery! As mentioned yesterday, I can now sit for a while before guts-ache drives me prone again. I have apparently been more interactive over the past week. (I’m not sure of this – I still think I’m an antisocial so-and-so.) I’ve certainly done more than I could in previous weeks, even though that ‘more’ is still almost nothing. I even have plans to do more towards the great clear-out. And the pain, while still constant (and still moving around unpredictably), is moving from unbearable to very annoying. It was even possible to talk about our much-postponed cycle-adventure this morning without falling into despair. Continue reading
Update
Just to record what’s been happening: I seem to be a bit less shattered at the moment. Continue reading
On the PiL!
Hey, a post that isn’t about my innards!
Servants’ Quarters now boasts a record deck. So the vinyl that has followed me around for devades, and been on display but unplayable for around 8 years, is getting a new lease of life.
The first three records we’ve played are
Public Image Ltd’s album, Pink Floyd‘s Wish you were here and Cherry Vanilla‘s Bad girl.
The next challenge is to use the deck’s record-to-mp3 feature to make my vinyl ‘portable’. Watch this space!
Digital evidence that Bruce might have a life 