Wow, can't believe I have so much to write. Busy, busy, busy!

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I am about to ring into work sick for the 4th working day.

I tried to return to work last Friday but had to pull over twice on the way in as I thought I was going to throw up. After going home I got more migraine precursors and more head pain, which continued into Saturday.

Yesterday I felt a little better and Pat commented that my colour was improved.

However this morning I feel awful again. Pat was snoring all fucking night to the point where eventually I just got up and came downstairs at around 5am because I thought I was going to smother him. I reckon I have probably had about 3 hours sleep, tops. I'm at the point where I'm just crying with frustration and exhaustion.

In November last year, I went dahn sahf to visit Mum and Moggy and do some Xmas shopping. On my journey home I picked up a bucket of KFC for us.
Pat bit into a piece and loosened his two bottom front teeth on a bone. (Why he didn't realise it had a bone in it is not a question I'm prepared to tackle.)
After faffing about for a month he finally went to the dentist the week before Xmas and had the two teeth out.
That's when he started snoring. Because his mouth was painful so it was hanging open, I suppose.
Then our bed started falling apart so Pat ended up sleeping on the sofa for a fortnight anyway until we got a new one.
Now we have the new bed, he is coming to bed every night and driving me crazy with his snoring!

What can I do? If he gets false teeth, you can't wear them overnight anyway, so that won't help.
I don't want to relegate him to the sofa every night and we don't have a spare room, so it's not like I can just go and move elsewhere when he starts. And I can't sleep on the sofa because it kills my back.

Let's just look at my woes:
Exhausted; lack of sleep
At least 4 stone overweight
Blood pressure too high
Chronic back pain (medicated)
Carpal tunnel syndrome (medicated)
Intermittent mastalgia
Lost interest in sex
Can't concentrate
Seem to be either crying or losing temper all the time
Infertile
And to top it off, have just discovered what looks like a ringworm patch on my shoulder.

Now, does that all sound it could come under the aegis of "stress-related illnesses"? Yes, I thought so.

When I get headaches, I have to be careful what I take anyway, because of my medications for my back and wrist pain. I'm already on codeine phosphate, amytriptyllin and diclofenac. So I can't take any extra anti-inflammatories. Codeine unfortunately can often cause or worsen headaches in the course of treating the pain it's aimed at, so I've tried skipping that for the last few days but have ended up feeling as if someone replaced my spine with a length of rusty barbed wire. (Naturally this didn't manifest itself until we were in Morrisons yesterday.)

Well, I have phoned in to work and spoken to my mate Oona which at least has cheered me up a bit cos she knows where I'm coming from with the back pain, and with the snoring since her husband is a pain with it too!

Got a doctor's appointment for 3.55 today so will see what s/he says... Never seem to see the same doctor twice at our surgery which is a bit disconcerting... Hope they don't send me for an ECG again...

Do not try on clothes whilst shopping until no longer a munter.

That is all.

I hit the scales this morning... and I am now in the Half-Century Club!

I've lost 50lbs!

*dancing*

200/150/140 since April 7th 2003

(Crossposted pics of my weight-loss to atkins_ba_pics

Finally got my camera out this morning and reinstalled to my PC... here are the results!

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Well, back at work today :-p Here's a resume of my weekend: ( Read more... )

YYYYEEEEEEEESSSSSSS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Very happy to weigh in this morning and find that I have now officially lost 2 stone. Yay me!

Also found a great site, Virtual Model which allows you to input your current/goal/start/whatever weight and see how you would look.

( So here are my pics, lurking behind this tag )

I was walking through the office earlier idly wondering why the hell my butt muscles hurt so bad, doing the old mental checklist thing, you know: "Anal sex? No, I'd remember. Did I get to the gym? Ha, yeah, right. Someone's been punching my bum while I've been sleeping? Well, possibly..." when suddenly it dawned on me - I dyed my hair yesterday, so was bent over the bath for about 30 minutes.

Shit, I am so unfit, I frighten myself.

Anyway, it is pissing down with rain which while annoying me on my fag breaks, is actually good as it makes me feel smug about going away tomorrow :o) By this time tomorrow we should be checked in! Tra-la-la...

( Things to do when I get home. )