Weighed myself this morning and I seem to have *gained* weight with it rising 135.90 kilos instead of dropping some of the 135.40 I was yesterday! What makes this ‘odd’ is that I had very little to eat yesterday!
The wife knocked up a very nice salad for lunch, but other than a couple of small helpings of trifle I can’t remember eating much else. I can only assume there is a lot of digested food inside somewhere just waiting to explode at the most inappropriate time!
One reason I didn’t eat much was because my aches and pains intensified. My damaged rib hurt when I coughed, and I coughed repeatedly and unproductively all day. Again I found myself desperate to breathe in, and unable to. In the end, the wife ‘loaned’ me her Ventolin to see if it would help.. which it did! My ribs also hurt when I ‘hiccoughed’, which I did (and still do) regularly.
Another, and maybe worse, problem was an intense pain in my chest. It wasn’t hurting before I took my morning medication and I assumed it was caused by one of the tablets not being swallowed entirely and causing a ‘burning’ sensation as it dissolved, possibly causing some damage. In practice, the pain was similar to that of ‘reflux’ so I took Myloanta tablets and thought it would go away… but I took more this morning and it hasn’t gone. My latest interpretation is that the blood clots have shifted and are causing the pain. Of course, in reality, I have no idea of the cause, or how I can treat it.
So… I’m entering the New Year with blood clots, a painful cough, a cracked rib, a possible reflux, and a general feeling of ‘sickness’. Can’t claim this is the best start to 2024. Still, there are a few days before the year starts so who knows what’ll happen next. I hope I’m still here to see it! 😀
The Eclectic Interweb 