Two toasted cheese sandwiches and some tomato soup.
Archive for November, 2009
Colonoscopy: 2 day prep
Posted in Health, tagged colonoscopy, colonoscopy preparation, Health, hospital, IBD, inflammatory bowel disease, prep on November 30, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Tiredness kills
Posted in Health, tagged Health, hypochondria, mind, primary sclerosing cholangitis, PSC, sleepy, symptoms, tiredness on November 25, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Tiredness kills – or so the saying goes. But what about when you are not driving? What about when you have just got up from 9 hours sleep? Then what?
Lie back and think of England
Posted in Health, tagged colonoscopy, enema, Health, hospital, IBD, inflammatory bowel disease, pain, primary sclerosing cholangitis, PSC, sigmoidoscopy on November 18, 2009 | 3 Comments »
Just breath through the pain.
Sup?
Posted in Health, tagged alcohol, beer, drink, drinking, Health, liver, primary sclerosing cholangitis, PSC, wine on November 15, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Whatever your tipple, a little bit of alcohol is a good thing. I’ve even heard that it can be used to sterilise wounds. What a wondrous drink; so much so, that it is often just referred to as just that – Drink.
Mind over body
Posted in Health, tagged Health, hypochondria, itching, jaundice, liver, mind, pain, primary sclerosing cholangitis, PSC, symptoms, yellow on November 12, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Since finding out that I have Primary Sclerosing Cholangitis on Friday I have been utilising all of my Google-fu skills to find out as much as I can. Better to know than not to – or at least that is what I thought.
Medication
Posted in Health, tagged azathioprine, calcium, Health, IBD, ill, inflammatory bowel disease, medication, mesalazine, pills, primary sclerosing cholangitis, PSC, ursodeoxycholic acid, vitamin D on November 9, 2009 | 1 Comment »
When I was a young’un in secondary school, ‘popping pills’ was a phrase that really only came up in drugs awareness classes. ‘I want you all’, said the desperately-trying-to-be-hip teacher, ‘to write down as many phrases for taking drugs as you can.’ Nowadays, popping pills is something I do each and every day. Unfortunately, none [...]
Friday Ups and Downs
Posted in Gay, Health, tagged 2011, enGAYgement, Gay, Health, IBD, inflammatory bowel disease, primary sclerosing cholangitis, PSC, rings on November 8, 2009 | 3 Comments »
I believe a good day is defined by the ‘ups’ outweighing the ‘downs’. This is a look back at last Friday, which, well… was a bit hectic.
