Just Nicky

Getting Organised August 22, 2005

I’ve made some serious moves towards taking my health and wellbeing seriously today.

I’ve made an appointment for a naturopathic consultation tomorrow here. It’s close to work and it’s cheap. And if I’m not happy with it I won’t feel any compunction about not going back.

I’ve also made an appointment to check out one of these gyms on Wednesday night. I don’t have any idea whether it’s actually any good or any better than any other gym. I just saw some advertising material in the doctor’s surgery on Friday, it women only (which isn’t really that big a deal) and there’s one fairly close to home.

And I’ve created a new category on my blog.

I feel terribly industrious!

Blood Tests and the 2 day migraine August 20, 2005

2, maybe 3, weeks ago I went to the doctor because I was always so, so tired, but didn’t actually seem unwell. He did a reasonably thorough examination, checked my throat, my breathing and prodded my stomach, and nothing seemed amiss. So he took some blood and said ‘come back in a week for the results’.

When I returned a week later he told me that my haemoglobin (spelling?) cells were too few & too small and this could be due to lack of iron. They hadn’t tested for iron, though, so he took some more blood to test for iron and said ‘come back in a week for the results’.

Yesterday I went back and my iron levels are low. One would think that this would mean iron tablets. Well, no, it doesn’t. He wants to have more tests done to remove the possibility of internal bleeding. The tests he wants to get done are a gastroscopy and a colonoscopy. If they come back clear then he’ll prescribe the iron tablets.

In my fuzzy post-migraine state I said ‘OK’ and took the referral. This morning, though, my head is less fuzzy and I’m thinking, ‘Naahh’. I just don’t feel like someone who needs a camera stuck up their bum.

I don’t think the doctor is suggesting these tests out of sadism. I think it’s totally due to caution and there’s a lot to be said for erring on the side of caution. However, I’m sure that there’s nothing wrong with my digestive system that couldn’t be dealt with by dietary means. And, if there is, I’d like to try something that didn’t involve a couple of invasive tests first.

So I think I will find myself a naturopath before doing anything about the referral. Know anybody good?

Bleh!! August 18, 2005

Last night’s migraine is still kicking my butt. Usually after a sleep I feel better, just a little sort of hungover - which I generally put down to the fact that when my head hurts that much I take way too many headache pills. Today, though, my head still hurts and the tinnitus is making my brain vibrate. I’m seeing my chiro later and he’ll make it all better.

Obviously, there was no going to work today but, thanks to the joys of remote access, I’ve been looking at my emails. There seems to be ton of them. Looking is all I’ll do until my head clears. I don’t trust myself to type in business appropriate language until then.

So much for the sunshine August 17, 2005

Well I bolted out of work early & picked Finn up on the way home, but after being yelled at by a toddler, I’m too stuffed to go enjoy the sunshine. And it’s really windy here too, which takes the fun out of it.

When I picked Finn up he was in the babies’ room, rather than toddlers’, because ‘there was no room in toddlers’. I’m a bit annoyed by this. If Foozley is in toddlers’ full time now, how can there be no room in toddlers’ for him? It’s probably no big deal, but something I’ll be keeping an eye on.

I felt a bit sorry for Finn too because all the big kids were outside charging around and he was stuck indoors with the littlies and I know he’d have loved to be outside.

Early Finish

It’s been a kind of a nothing day today.

I have stuff to do, but not urgent or particularly important or interesting and I’m not feeling very enthused.

My throat is hurting and I’m feeling generally a bit so-so, so I’m going to head home early.

The sunshine is calling me.

Strange Day August 16, 2005

It’s a bit of a strange day today.

Mark had a dreadful night with Finn and neither of them got much sleep (although I think the Foozle did the better of the two). I considered ditching work and keeping Finn home from childcare today because I felt bad sending him off when I know he’s tired, but I didn’t and now I wonder whether I should have.

There’s a very odd vibe around today. The sound of big fish frying is almost deafening, yet I have no idea what’s going on. I could be wrong, since I really don’t know anything, but I can’t help feeling that I’m not.

Part of me desperately wants to know all about it and be in on the goss. The rest of me, though, is relieved that it all seems to have nothing to do with me and that all I need to do is wait for instructions. The lack of instructions and clear direction, though, combined with the absence of a few people, is a very big part of the strange vibe too.

At the end of the day, nothing will really change, though. That seems to be the way of the monolith at times like these.

“Life is a tale told by an idiot — full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.”

How? August 14, 2005

It’s freezing cold outside. And a fly just crawled across the top of the Mac.

I thought they all went away and died in winter…

Walking Miss LuLu August 13, 2005

I was at a bit of a loose end and feeling a bit off so Mark suggested I take a dog for a walk.

Emmylou & I walked to western limit of the path along the creek, along the street that goes past the end of our street to the big roundabout, then down to the creek and home again along the path.

It was lovely to be strolling with a dog and something I should do much more of.

Now that she’s the ripe old age of 4 and a half Em is less of a handful than she used to be and generally behaved herself well. Even the appearance of a huge rabbit which loped across our path didn’t send her off too much.

Clockwatcher August 12, 2005

I’ve been wanting to go home for the last hour or so - since 3.30 - but have stayed in the office for two reasons.

Firstly I felt it would be unnecessarily slack of me to leave so early.

Secondly there is a change going on in production that I am nominally responsible for and I probably should be on deck if something goes wrong.

I hate nominal responsibility.

New Big Red Car

Clownshoes Central have rung to tell me that I can pick up my new big red car on Monday.

It’s basically the same as the old big red car, but it’s still exciting because it’s new and will be that little bit shinier & redder.

Let’s hope they actually have the right car this time.