pjallen1982
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Evening ladies AND Sarah!!!
Didn't quite get the day I had originally planned! I decided to see if I could see the skin doctor today so went up to the surgery first thing. The receptionist was lovely and said he was at the other surgery and she would book me in for 10.20. Anyway I went back to see him and he said its a form of the cold sore virus but on my cheek. Apparently it's very rare to get it there...just my luck! And like cold sores, it's likely to recur, particularly if I get stressed or under the weather. I also have rosacea which is another chronic condition! So basically I have to finish the course of tablets I'm on and then go onto a lower dose antibiotic ufn. If I get the tingling feeling that I'm about to have a recurrence, I'm to get a doctors appointment the same day so they can start me on the antiviral meds again. So not the best of news but I suppose there's a lot worse I could have. It's happened 3 times now. The first was a couple of weeks before Gwyn and I got married and I was really stressed, the second was a few months ago when I was working all hours and not sleeping, and now this time which has occurred within a couple of days of this stupid family problem. I haven't slept properly for days because of it, and I can't seem to shake off this sense that I feel I'm always breathing in and not out again, like I'm hyped up and ready to explode! So it does appear that this condition is definitely stress related. But how on earth do u DEstress???
Decided to go see my mum after the appointment which was great as I hadn't seen her for a while. We had a coffee and a natter and a good old moan lol! On the way home I called into Asda and picked a few bits up so it was gone 2 by the time I got home. Couldn't eat then as I'd got pills to take so I got busy making Daniel some low protein veg pasties from one of his recipe books. I'm useless at making pastry and Dans lp pastry is rather fragile, so they took me nearly 3 hours to make but I was pleased with how they turned outI split the pastry mix into two and added curry powder to one and dried parsley to the other, just to cheer them up a bit! Anyway, Daniel LOVED them so it was all worth while! And I've got loads to put in the freezer for another day
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Forgot to say that when I came home, a neighbours cat trotted into the house with me! Suki went mad! Thought I brought her a playmate!
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Chat tomorrow guys x
Red day
35g crunchy bran (B1)
Milk (1/2 A1)
Banana
Ham and boiled egg
Lamb stew
Mint sauce (1)
Grapes
Milky coffee (rest of A1)
Hi fi bar (B2 )
1 syn
1 x A
2 x B's
Hi Dawn
Well it's good that the dr knows what is causing the problems but it doesn't sound the best prognosis. If it is going to be affected by stress then think you should look at ways to destress that you respond to, whether it be a piece of music or someone talking to you that you listen to (there are some free mind pods on iPhone which are meant to help destress), or write what you are stressing onto a piece of paper and then identify what you personally can do about it, maybe talking to someone else so sharing your worries, going for a walk/swim/ exercise to release happy endorphins....
... I don't know exactly what works for you but it would seem that you can't have your face swelling every time you're stressing. I'm the biggest worrier so I get this. I also get what I should do which is to say is this my problem
To be worrying about, is there anything I can do to change the outcome? But it's easier said than done.
Glad you had a nice time with your mum and those pasties look fab mmm
Look after yourself now xxx
