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Not feeling too good today, in fact I haven't felt well since Thursday. I expected to feel bad on Thursday because of the looooong day I had on Wednesday, instead of which I woke up bright eyed and bushy-tailed, but ever since I've been feeling lousy.
I've got three things that are driving me nuts. One is that my arthritis has got very bad in the last few days so much so that I woke myself up screaming with pain on Sunday night because I'd managed to do something to my knee turning over in bed. I'm taking all the medication I'm allowed and it seems to get better during the day, only to get worse overnight, which is ridiculous. It seems that I didn't wake anyone else except the cats, which isn't really very reassuring.
The diuretic I'm taking doesn't seem to be working as well as it was, which means my legs feet and ankles are swollen, as well as my hands, and possibly other bits I haven't noticed. I imagine that this may be making the arthritis worse.
Then this ghastly dry cough I've had for months now has got much worse. Apparently I'm coughing half the night, certainly I've woken myself up several times feeling as though I'm choking and John and Charles both say that I'm coughing a lot even when I don't wake up. It's a very strange cough, in that it's like the cough you get when you've had a really bad cold or flu which normally settles down to be a cough producing loads of sputum and which finally goes away as you get better. But this cough is stuck on the dry, unproductive bit of the progression and no matter how much cough mixture I take, it doesn't get any better or any more productive.
I feel a bit cheated when I remember that I gave up smoking 17 years ago, in the hope I could avoid breathing and chest problems!
I'm pretty sure that it's associated with my heart condition, but whenever I mention it to medical people, they don't see it as a problem. Well it is one now! I suppose it might be something to do with some medication I'm taking, but it's been going on for more than a year and getting worse all the time. It can't be anything extra because I've had so many X-rays and chest scans recently that they would have shown anything nasty.
Another thing is that I'm feeling a bit wobbly this afternoon. I know that this new medication is meant to reduce my blood pressure and when I took my blood pressure with this new electric machine I bought from the pharmacy as recommended by the quack it was in the realms of perfect, which must be about the only perfect thing about me, so it can't be that. I've used it several times over the last couple of weeks, so I don't think I've done it wrong.
I'm feeling very mortal again.
Gah! I'm so fed up with it all!
We seem to have been pretty lucky with the weekend weather. It certainly snowed on and off on Sunday and yesterday as well, but Saturday was pretty good, and in any case, none of the snow stayed for very long. It has been quite cold, though and the boiler chose this weekend to start playing up. It keeps shutting itself off and refusing to start again until someone clicks the button to light the pilot light, then it works for a while and stops again and so on ad infinitum.
The TV aerial is still not working properly so we think we need to replace the coaxial cable from the actual aerial on the roof down to the sitting room. It's only the TV in the sitting room which is playing up, as the other TVs come off a different branch which Christopher installed, but it's very annoying if we were to want to watch something together. However, since there's been very little on except for Dr. Who, which, being BBC, we could receive OK, it hasn't yet been too much of a problem. I don't like to ask Christopher to clamber about on the roof when it's freezing and windy, but I'll have to ask him to come when he can.
I have a strange advertisement on my posting page inviting me to customise my Zwinky. I wonder what a Zwinky is. It looks like some sort of cybernetic dressing up doll like those cardboard ones we had as children with clothes with little tags on which you were meant to dress up the doll with. I was useless at it. I could never manage to get the clothes to hang straight.
I've got three things that are driving me nuts. One is that my arthritis has got very bad in the last few days so much so that I woke myself up screaming with pain on Sunday night because I'd managed to do something to my knee turning over in bed. I'm taking all the medication I'm allowed and it seems to get better during the day, only to get worse overnight, which is ridiculous. It seems that I didn't wake anyone else except the cats, which isn't really very reassuring.
The diuretic I'm taking doesn't seem to be working as well as it was, which means my legs feet and ankles are swollen, as well as my hands, and possibly other bits I haven't noticed. I imagine that this may be making the arthritis worse.
Then this ghastly dry cough I've had for months now has got much worse. Apparently I'm coughing half the night, certainly I've woken myself up several times feeling as though I'm choking and John and Charles both say that I'm coughing a lot even when I don't wake up. It's a very strange cough, in that it's like the cough you get when you've had a really bad cold or flu which normally settles down to be a cough producing loads of sputum and which finally goes away as you get better. But this cough is stuck on the dry, unproductive bit of the progression and no matter how much cough mixture I take, it doesn't get any better or any more productive.
I feel a bit cheated when I remember that I gave up smoking 17 years ago, in the hope I could avoid breathing and chest problems!
I'm pretty sure that it's associated with my heart condition, but whenever I mention it to medical people, they don't see it as a problem. Well it is one now! I suppose it might be something to do with some medication I'm taking, but it's been going on for more than a year and getting worse all the time. It can't be anything extra because I've had so many X-rays and chest scans recently that they would have shown anything nasty.
Another thing is that I'm feeling a bit wobbly this afternoon. I know that this new medication is meant to reduce my blood pressure and when I took my blood pressure with this new electric machine I bought from the pharmacy as recommended by the quack it was in the realms of perfect, which must be about the only perfect thing about me, so it can't be that. I've used it several times over the last couple of weeks, so I don't think I've done it wrong.
I'm feeling very mortal again.
Gah! I'm so fed up with it all!
We seem to have been pretty lucky with the weekend weather. It certainly snowed on and off on Sunday and yesterday as well, but Saturday was pretty good, and in any case, none of the snow stayed for very long. It has been quite cold, though and the boiler chose this weekend to start playing up. It keeps shutting itself off and refusing to start again until someone clicks the button to light the pilot light, then it works for a while and stops again and so on ad infinitum.
The TV aerial is still not working properly so we think we need to replace the coaxial cable from the actual aerial on the roof down to the sitting room. It's only the TV in the sitting room which is playing up, as the other TVs come off a different branch which Christopher installed, but it's very annoying if we were to want to watch something together. However, since there's been very little on except for Dr. Who, which, being BBC, we could receive OK, it hasn't yet been too much of a problem. I don't like to ask Christopher to clamber about on the roof when it's freezing and windy, but I'll have to ask him to come when he can.
I have a strange advertisement on my posting page inviting me to customise my Zwinky. I wonder what a Zwinky is. It looks like some sort of cybernetic dressing up doll like those cardboard ones we had as children with clothes with little tags on which you were meant to dress up the doll with. I was useless at it. I could never manage to get the clothes to hang straight.
