Wednesday…feeling better!
Feb 3rd 2010PeterGetting My Life Back!
It has been a funny week! Just after I wrote the last entry, I started developing a pain in the left side of my chest. It was so bad that unless I lay still in one position in bed, it was impossible to sleep. Had it been going down my arm, I would have been seriously worried. As it was, I was concerned enough to log a call back with NHS Direct who confirmed that it wasn’t a heart attack, and suggested it might be a chest infection or some random bug.
I went out on Wednesday night to see friend Faith, and her husband – lovely meal – thank you! However I felt quite shivery when I left, although that went once I had the car heating on high. But I booked an appointment with my GP for Friday.
My GP ruled out pneumonia, and probably pleurisy, but thought it could have been some ‘flu bug, or the residual effects of a previous bug.
Anyway, I had a course of ‘horse pills’ and whether they made a difference, or it has just burned itself out, I feel a lot better now!
The other activitiy of the week was a visit to the opthalmology department at St Thomas’s for the monthly review. All had been going well until this other snag, but generally the consultant was satisfied that things are going well, and my next visit will be in four months!
So on that note, Onwards and Upwards!
Never let it be said that we are not a nation of Tea drinkers! This bag was picked up at Makro at the weekend, and is my contribution towards the tea and coffee fund in the office!
It did seem as if the cold weather heralded the end of the world – local shops ran out of milk, bread and vegetables – fortunately I was OK as I had stocked up earlier! (Only joking 🙂 ) But the snow was quite pretty, and the children built this large snowman in the back garden. However the thaw was starting as I drove back to Corsham – only to be lulled into a false sense of security as the second wave of snow fell 
on Tuesday night, which made driving the two miles to work ‘interesting’ in the morning. However that has now all but gone, although the warm wet Atlantic air is causing quite dense fog patches as it meets the cold air from the ground, so the drive home was interesting.
The snow fell, although not in the same quantities as other parts of the country, but enough to cause panic buying of milk and bread at the local supermarket, and getting to work a little tricky. If anything, this morning was harder as the temperature was -7 when I eventually got into the car, and a colleague reported -14 at his house about 8 miles away. However the countryside did look pretty!