What's happening about all these gastric upsets you are continually having Ann?
Just leaving things as they appear to be doesn't feel, to me in any case, like a sensible way forward - especially as a former bowel cancer patient.
To be crystal clear, I am not suggesting you are having another visitation by the Big C, but who knows? At the very least, it is not inconceivable that you are becoming increasingly malnourished by malabsorption issues, not to mention what sounds like purgative impacts of the upsets.
As someone who experienced significantly imbalanced electrolytes, due to extreme diarrhoea, as a result of naso-gastric feeding (not an uncommon side-effect in NG fed patients), I would not wish that on anyone. It impacted every single aspect of my life and almost killed me.
Surely these things need checked out.
To be honest? Not a thing happening. The only thing I have heard is that I have to redo the test for bowel cancer - no explanation, just do it again. I seem to have spells when everything upsets my stomach - last endoscopy I had - 2 years ago now, found some polyps in my stomach, which they removed and the colonoscopy (same time) found 2 there as well. They were not concerned about them - not far enough developed to be dangerous, but they removed them anyway. Now waiting for the system to get started again so that I can get checked again. The doctor I spoke to to get onto the list, assured me that one way or another, she would get me onto an early list, once they start up again - unless they find something to concern them in the bowel cancer sample test, in which case she will get me on straight away.
Felt very poorly today, but it was probably my own fault. I saw a gluten free loaf with fairly low carb content in the local shop and had a slice with Marmite for breakfast. Then had the last of the leek and coconut soup, with cream in the early afternoon. Then felt awful - indigestion but also pulse all over the place and a bit woozy. Checked, BG 9.9, so it wasn't that. Seems to me like a reaction to something - the list of ingredients in the bread looks OK, but I'd better throw it out.
It didn't help that Neil decided to get some more boxes of crockery down from the loft, so that I could pack unwanted stuff for a charity shop. Didn't part with much of it, so have spent ages washing stuff and finding homes for it.
Then he decided, since his shielding has ended, and he was going to the charity shop anyway, to go to a building supplies shop in Stornoway and get the shelving I have been asking him to sort out for me. That all had to be unloaded and, surprisingly, he immediately set about cutting it all into the correct lengths, dumping the cut shelves in my bedroom, leaning against the bed. Should be OK, I usually sleep on the other side!
I have a birthday coming up (75, but no free TV licence) and Neil has given me clip on lights to encourage my indoor pot plants to grow - our low light levels holds them back. They are infra-red and ultra-violet and cast a cerise glow over the room. Very attractive. I usually tell them all to forget my birthday - I don't need presents but both boys usually ignore me, arriving a day or so early, or late with something they "just saw and thought I would like. Definitely not a birthday present."
