lessons

1) Cat hair makes my skin itch, so it's better not to let the cat climb all over my face at 3am.

2) Going to bed late when ill and tired is not so good an idea.

3) Mattress heating pads are wonderful for relieving some of the muscle tension in my back. Want one! Pretty!

4) After being shut out of the room at approximately 04.30, the cat seems to have decided I'm not going to feed her after all, and disappeared. I'm sure she'll turn up soon though. She's a lovely cat. Yay cat!

5) Forgetty toothbrush is BAD. Yes, I will be picking one up today.

pfy got stuck at Stratford last night, trains were being stupid. In the end he decided to go home.

Many thanks to abigailb who came over last night and helped me arrange bedding such that I could put my legs up as mandated by osteopath.

'''''\__ is the shape that I sleep in. Sometimes closer to '''''|__ if my back is particularly bad. This is why all the arsing about with sofa cushions and so on.

GP IN "TAKING EWT SERIOUSLY" SHOCKER!!

Went to see my GP this morning.

She looked in my ears, and yes, the right one does seem irritated and unhappy - I've been prescribed ear drops with steroids in, which should calm things down. Hard to tell whether it was infected or whether the irritation is just from the drops I was using to get the wax out, but either way steroids should make the hurtiness actually stop.

Also, I mentioned that the osteopath had noticed a slight heart murmur, so she actually had a listen and then she hummed and hawed a bit and couldn't decide whether it was actually indicative of trouble, so she will send me for an ECG.

This is the same GP who previously told me to ignore my aches and pains and go running.

What happen? I mean, I'm not complaining, but I fully expected I'd go and get the same "You are depressed, therefore everything else is due to that" attitude I've had previously.