nickji
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- Mar 8, 2009
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- 79
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- Travelling for 39 years
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United Kingdom
Hi Everyone,
This is a bit Long and Boring (L&B). It's all about me, with little relevance to the forum, so if you don't know me, I'd advise turning the page!!
Can't recall when I last wrote, and not up to finding anything just yet. I think I mentioned I had a Herpes infection - and for some reason I want to mention that this is the childhood herpes we get if we have,e.g. measles - it lurks in the neck vertebrae. This one was stimulated by sunlight in a mild attack of snowblindness a couple of days after arriving in the Pyrennees. Unfortunately the virus attack went to the eye and whole left upper skull - for most people, if you have an attack, it goes to the mouth (we call it a 'cold sore' in the U.K.), and is no serious problem. But to the eye is another story.
That was painful enough, but quickly controlled. Unfortunately it led to Transgeminal Neuralgia, which is the black dog of all pains, with not cure but time (from a month to a life time). Eventully I gave in and took my doc's advice to take morphine (packaged under a fancy name), which helps, but I don't usually take enough.
I see this is getting too long. So, to cut to now, still have the TGM, but getting better slowly. For the past week a bacterial infection has moved into my eye, but treatment for that just started so I think - think - I'll be better in a few days. I've booked bus/flight/ferry from Andorra via Barcellona to Naxos in the Greek islands, where I believe there is a garden room waiting for me. Hopefully with a doctor next door
Of course,, the annoying thing is that for a lot of the past six weeks I've been almost completely immobile, so my leg is weak. I have a question for Josephine: I was once (while semi-conscious) given an intravenous drip which included 200 ml hydrocortisone. Is that one of those drugs best avoided? Somewhere in my mind I have it connected with bone-loss.....
It's certainly been an interesting experience, enough so that I can still say, from the heart:
Enjoy it All,
Nick
This is a bit Long and Boring (L&B). It's all about me, with little relevance to the forum, so if you don't know me, I'd advise turning the page!!
Can't recall when I last wrote, and not up to finding anything just yet. I think I mentioned I had a Herpes infection - and for some reason I want to mention that this is the childhood herpes we get if we have,e.g. measles - it lurks in the neck vertebrae. This one was stimulated by sunlight in a mild attack of snowblindness a couple of days after arriving in the Pyrennees. Unfortunately the virus attack went to the eye and whole left upper skull - for most people, if you have an attack, it goes to the mouth (we call it a 'cold sore' in the U.K.), and is no serious problem. But to the eye is another story.
That was painful enough, but quickly controlled. Unfortunately it led to Transgeminal Neuralgia, which is the black dog of all pains, with not cure but time (from a month to a life time). Eventully I gave in and took my doc's advice to take morphine (packaged under a fancy name), which helps, but I don't usually take enough.
I see this is getting too long. So, to cut to now, still have the TGM, but getting better slowly. For the past week a bacterial infection has moved into my eye, but treatment for that just started so I think - think - I'll be better in a few days. I've booked bus/flight/ferry from Andorra via Barcellona to Naxos in the Greek islands, where I believe there is a garden room waiting for me. Hopefully with a doctor next door
Of course,, the annoying thing is that for a lot of the past six weeks I've been almost completely immobile, so my leg is weak. I have a question for Josephine: I was once (while semi-conscious) given an intravenous drip which included 200 ml hydrocortisone. Is that one of those drugs best avoided? Somewhere in my mind I have it connected with bone-loss.....
It's certainly been an interesting experience, enough so that I can still say, from the heart:
Enjoy it All,
Nick
