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I'll be 55 this August... I've had bronchiectasis for ten years plus this year... End stage lung disease for the past year...been on oxygen for three years... and have I got used to it yet?... nah! I am now waiting for the biggie; a double lung and maybe a heart transplant. I love my life weirdly enough, because I have some wonderful family and friends who are with me every step of the way on my adventures, even though I embarrass them on a daily basis with my unorthodox way of looking at life. Not for the faint hearted!

Thursday, 23 September 2010

Anyone for a bag of 2nd hand walnuts?

Uggh yesterday was a day that will never go down as a red letter day, more like the day my head turned into a pumpkin!
Still not a hundred percent sure what went wrong yesterday, but after I had eaten my lunch, my left eye started hurting. I donned my dark glasses as I was off home to have my physio, but by the time I had got to Cressing, the vision in my eye had gone completely blurred and the actual eye had swollen up as if someone had just punched me. As I got nearer home, my right eye started closing up too, luckily I was nearly at mine so I was able to limp home and then I looked in the mirror... Oo dear dear me!
The left hand side of my face had also swollen up, so my new found jawline had totally disappeared again and it felt numb rather like I'd just had a Novocaine injection at the dentist.
I did not look a pretty sight. More worryingly my oxygen stats had dropped down to 84%.
Sadie turned up to give me my regular physio. She took one look at the new me and bundled me into her car and off we drove to the doctors. Of course that was shut. So we zoomed into the chemist and there they sorted me out. I was even talking more gooblygook than usual too. I normally talk crap as anyone who knows me will agree to, but today I even surpassed myself!
I called Julie after I had my physio and wailed down the phone at how awful I looked. Of course she did what every best friend did in this situation and that was speed round to my bungalow to take a photo and put it on her face book... bless her!

This morning when I woke up, my eyes were still very swollen, but a lot better than yesterday and at least I could get my glasses on over my swollen nose so I could drive to the doctors. Some eye drops later, I was sent off to hospital for blood tests. The doctor reckoned it could be where I'd been trying to diet and have been using chopped walnuts on my yoghut, plus on my salads each day for the last couple of weeks, but that was a long shot or I could have even got some nut dust or mouldy cheese in my eye... who knows!
I sat in the hospital waiting area with what seemed half of Braintree all waiting for blood tests too, listening to some young lady screaming her head off while she was having her blood test done and the rest of us feeling sorry for the poor soul who was in next. Ok it was probably the girl being a drama queen, but that screaming was going to unnerve the bloodtaker however good they are. Good news of having a head like a pumpkin though, is you get a seat all to yourself in a waiting room. A couple of people made their way over and then had a rethink and stood instead!

Apart from a headache now, two misshapen eyes and a numb face still, I hope to go back to work tomorrow. Fingers crossed.

Lots of love Debbie x

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