Wednesday 9 March 2011

Mmm... maltesers

This week's mini update...

  • Blood pressure still through the roof 

  • Just completed my latest commission Owl - Riley the Surfer Owl. He was named after a character from my [very odd] teenage obsession with Voyage To The Bottom Of The Sea (and other Irwin Allen tv series!).... perhaps I shouldn't have admitted to that... hum ho....


  • Yesterday I had the fun of being questionned and prodded by some medical students doing a rheumatology module at med school!  Was quite interesting, and one of them did correctly diagnose me so top marks for her! :-)

  • Today I shall be making a red memory bracelet (hand allowing!), sketching up a kitsch girly (not really my thing so might take a bit of imagination!) Owl for Emily, and starting on my newest Owl stuffie - The Owl-inator


  • This evening will be my first Methotrexate dose, I've read all the leaflets and spoken to other people [online] taking it but I'm still rather anxious about it.  Going from taking 0 pills to taking over 30 pills per week (6 diff ones) is defo a bit of a body and head shock!

Oh and I've just had a food delivery from Tesco.  I maaaaaay have snuck in a giant bag of maltesers....I like food. :-)

TTFN
Loops
xx

5 comments:

  1. Hope your getting on ok with your meds, at least you now have a diagnoses, Ive been back and forwards to the doctors for almost a year and a half now, with pain in my RH side, back shoulder, arm and hand, ive had ultrasound, CT scan and blood tests, now im waiting for a endoscopy, all ive been told so far is that they found some arthritus in my spine but thats all.
    I really worry that my health will effect my ability to craft :(
    Hope you enjoyed your malteasers ;~)
    I really love your work and often find myself on your facebook page looking at all your prettys :)
    xxx
    Louise (of sprinkles & glitter)

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  2. I've just been read this & thought I would share my metho experience. I've been suffering for 6 years and for 5 they had been talking about metho. Eventually the consultant said you choose, risk side effects for possible gain. I went for it and for me it has been such a success and my life is incomparable to how it was. I hope you get a similar result. Let me know if you want more info.

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  3. It Jen of the stitchy owl by the way.x

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  4. Thanx for the messages chaps, sorry I've taken so long to spot them!!

    @Louise - Yes diagnosis is defo a large part of the battle, it took about a year for mine. If they'd gone straight to the MRI scan they would have had a diagnosis straight away but of course that's not how the NHS works, it's cheapest options first! Since my diagnosis though I definitely feel like they're putting in the effort making sure I get the right meds and keeping an eye on everything :-)

    Funnily enough my pain is also all down my RH side only, for me foot, knee, hand/wrist/fingers, elbow, shoulder and neck. Very odd!

    Anyways I really hope they diagnose you soon, hard to know what to do when you don't know what it is! I'll keep my [left hand] fingers crossed for your crafting, I've had to slow down a little and take time off when I have bad days but thankfully I'm still crafting at the mo :-)

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  5. @Jen - Thanx m'dear! Wow, I can't believe they took 5 years umming and ahhing about the methotrexate :-o Yeah my consultant made it my choice too, I was very close to saying no but like you say when I'd weighed out my future without them (mobility, crafting etc) vs my future taking them successfully I figured it was at least worth trying them! How long have you been on the methotrexate now btw??

    I'll have to do an update post on here soon :-)

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