Category Archives: illness

Convalescence

I feel like I’ve been off – the grid? the planet? – for the last few days. I’ve had five teeth extracted – four wisdom teeth (two impacted), and one “dead” tooth that the dentist said was unsaveable. Extraction sounds so clinical, doesn’t it? It wasn’t as bad as I expected, but in some ways [...]

Discombobulation

Eating my first breakfast in a couple of days – yoghurt with banana and honey, which seems to be the only thing I feel like this morning. Woke at midnight Saturday/Sunday with a sense of unease, which worsened into a feeling of nausea. This finally climaxed, at around 2:45am, into an attack of diarrhoea and [...]

Best weekend on record

Not. This last weekend was mostly spent in bed or on the couch, with a dog for company. Not with M, because he was afflicted with the same illness and had the other dog with him, in the bed or on the couch. It started off as a cough, which turned into a painfully sore [...]