Split personality

Well more split Penguin really - my right side is ready to take on the world this morning, but my left side just wants to go back to bed with a hot-water-bottle (or perhaps Enormous Cat on hot-water-bottle duty). This is not my usual pattern - usually I have, for instance, a bad knee and …

Taking retail therapy to a whole new level!

There can't be many places, perhaps not even Ebay, where you can bid for anything from a Florida Disney holiday to a 'repurposed' dog collar made from a man's tie, and raise money for an arthritis charity at the same time. Some of my favourite things so far in the auction (which opens for bidding …

There’s no telling some people (Also ICK!)

I met up with a friend yesterday who I haven't seen for ages, in spite of the fact that we work in the same tiny town. It was great to see her but I was somewhat dismayed when she asked me about my arthritis and then told me that her husband seemed to be suffering …

I’m glad I’ve got the sniffles!

I have the post flu-jab sniffles, so presumably that means my immune system is going to respond and do its job in creating anti flu antibodies, which will be very handy if we have a flu epidemic this year ... provided of course that it's the 'right' flu. I had a slightly sore throat yesterday afternoon, post flu jab, …

The flu jab comes of age!

I've been noticing a few improvements around the whole flu jab situation this year. In the previous few years I have a) struggled to book in for one because the surgery receptionists didn't know about immunosuppression b) been disgusted at the 'cattle market' approach to the flu clinic, which I thought was restricted to our …