It seems to have been quite a long time since my last post on the 2^nd of August and I don’t seem to have got a lot done! 🙁

It all started with a nasty cold that had me sleeping pretty much solidly for a couple of days and then after a few more days rest I thought I was ok and returned to work. However, a working day and a half later I started to feel quite bad again and ended up heading off to the Doctors for some antibiotics as I was coughing up nasty green phlegm.

A few days later I had to head in to hospital nice and early in the morning for an ECG and Echo test which had been booked for quite a while. I didn’t really feel like going when I woke up but dragged myself in and managed to cope with having the tests done. While there I managed to get hold of the consultant that monitors my heriditary muscle condition, who decided that she would check the oxygen and CO₂ levels in my blood to make sure they were not too low/high. Reviewing these she decided to change the antibiotics for some much stronger ones and to sign me off work for a week and a half to ensure that I got lots of rest and got better!

Rolling on over the next few days I started to get better but I still wasn’t right – I was coughing quite a lot but struggling to clear any of the phlegm from my lungs/throat :-(. Then on Tuesday morning I woke up very short of breath and after a few hurried phone calls it was decided that the right place for me was Hospital :-(.

I can now report that I’m feeling much better – the hospital food was actual quite good – the main problem being that there just wasn’t enough. I’m now looking forward to spend some of the rest of my post hospital recovery time working on finishing a few of my ongoing projects before I return to work.