Bleh, again

[caddyman]

This is weird. Cold sweat is rarely a sign of glowing good health; I am not precisely ill, yet I am not well, either. Something doesn't feel quite right and I can't figure out precisely what it is.

Other than the remnant ache in my back from the weekend (nearly cleared up now, thanks for asking), I am not in actual physical discomfort, nor do I feel nauseous. And yet, for want of a better word, I feel wan, washed out. Werte I a battery you would be taking the back off the remote and looking at me suspiciously, not sure whether to put a new one in, or soldier on in the hopes that there's still some life in the cells yet.

Yesterday I left work comparatively early, got home before six, and spent most of the evening slumped on my bed, listening to the radio, drifting in and out of semi-sleep.

Beastie bless him, reckons it sounds like Hypoglycemia. Admittedly I didn't eat much yesterday, skipping lunch and all, so that's a possibility. But middle-aged fatties worry when anything that sounds diabetes related is mentioned. My quack keeps telling me that I should be diabetic, and I keep pointing out that I'm not, and have the blood tests to prove it. That in mind, such words as the one beginning with 'H' above do tend to tickle the worry glands a touch.

Maybe I've just got beri-beri. At least that's newsworthy.

Back to work, I guess.

Comments

[caffeine-fairy.livejournal.com]

When did you last have a holiday?

[caddyman.livejournal.com]

I had a week off at Easter, and more recently about a month ago, though that was blighted by recurrent heavy nose bleeds.

Holiday as in HOLIDAY? Probably not since I went to Sweden about 3 years ago.

Short of dosh, see.

[caffeine-fairy.livejournal.com]

Hmm. It sounds to me like you need a rbeak. Anyone you know need a house sitter or soemthing?

[failing-angel.livejournal.com]

Surely it would be best to hold off the beri-beri until your Darkest Africa game.

[pauln.livejournal.com]

"Not beri-beri good, but no beri-beri bad either. I think he has a case of galloping"

"Galloping what?"

"I don't know. It's going too fast..."

[nortysarah.livejournal.com]

One easy way to check is to eat a whole chocolate cake or something else very sweet. If you feel like shit, get a pounding headache and feel like you could drink an ocean, chance are it's diabetes. I'm also more than happy to meet up for lunch or after school drinks and test your blood if it's make you feel happy. A good plan would be to buy some plain biccys - ones without chocolate and have them on your desk. Eat them if you feel a bit wan. Of course that won't help with the waste line, but I wouldn't wish diabetes on anyone. It sucks big time.

[caddyman.livejournal.com]

Happily none of that happened after a bar of choccy - it's just hypochondria. I reckon I just didn't eat enough during the day.

After school drinks still sounds good though, one of the evenings. I'm not generally a glum type of chap ;-)

[bluesman.livejournal.com]

A clear case of burrito deprivation, young sir. I shudder to imagine how British burritos taste, if they have any taste at all. Luckily for me, I am married to a Mexican cutie who loves to cook. So burrito deprivation is never a problem, but a gigantic gut is.

[caddyman.livejournal.com]

I mock your paltry gut.

Unless you need to keep Admiralty approved oceanographic tables about your person to check for tides, you have nothing to complain about.

[bluesman.livejournal.com]

Well, I've not seen my feet for a decade or two. Thank goodness I don't drink beer, or it would be prodigious.

[mollpeartree.livejournal.com]

My father-in-law ordered a burrito in a restaurant in Scotland once. Every time I've hear him tell this story, his attempts to describe the results have been drowned out by people laughing at the premise, but I think he said it was sort of like a rolled-up soggy pancake with bad meat in it.

[bluesman.livejournal.com]

A Scots burrito? Aie caramba, the mind boggles. Yes, it's a soft "tortilla" containing (usually shredded) meat, beans, rice, maybe some veg. The nearest Brit equivalent might be that king of nosh, the Cornish pasty. Ah, bliss.

Here on the west coast, Mexican food is very good, authentic and popular. In New England it is sadly unknown. I've not been back to the U.K. for 10 years, so I don't know what it's like there. My wife has never been and I doubt she'd approve of it. Still, fish and chips beats all, in my opinion.

[caddyman.livejournal.com]

When visiting a country where the men's national dres is a skirt with a dagger in the sock, it is well to take you own food. This is wisdom.

[littleonions.livejournal.com]

*sings* go to the doctor! tra la la la laaa go to the doctors lalalala

Thankyouverymuch.

[caddyman.livejournal.com]

I think I were just being a miserable git. :-)

[romney.livejournal.com]

Apply leeches to exterior of body. If this does not work, apply them internally.

Also visit Romneys for Cakes and Ale (Ale may not be available at peak times)

[nyarbaggytep.livejournal.com]

I suspect that you have terminal Hurrunessipof of the Lower Lumbar Jeelicost.
It's something I just made up.
But the symptoms fit.

[caddyman.livejournal.com]

Cripes, Dr Baggy. I think mebbe you're right.