Up The Farway Tree

Podcasts and holidays

I've not had a bad week at work although the room situation is as bad as ever. I wont go into it again as I am even boring myself now! I enjoyed my clinics and am getting to grips with general adult psychiatry again. I can't really tell you much more about work due to confidentiality etc but I am meeting lots of interesting people and slowly growing in confidence.

I had a pretty bad day on Tuesday for some reason - woke up with really achy joints and cancelled my 9am physio appointment so I could get back into bed. That is really not like me. I didn't even sleep - I just felt like I needed to be lying down. The joints were a bit better by the end of the day and have been not too bad since. I have no idea why it was worse on that day. It could be related to steroid reduction again - either as a side effect of steroid withdrawal or because the steroids were actually suppressing the joint pain. My foot has been quite sore again but I definitely think this is due to the start stop traffic in the morning!! However I am fine today so no panic :-) The nurse phoned to tell me my bloods were all normal other than a slightly low cortisol. This is the body's natural steroid so it just indicates that as I reduce the steroid tablets my body is being a bit slow to start making it's own steroids again. This is totally normal and backs up the theory that the lack of steroids is causing the tiredness. I am better on this new regime and have not fallen asleep in any more clinics ;-)

Anyway I will be getting a break really soon as we are off to Tuscany next weekend! This is a family holiday with my parents, 2 uncles and an aunt and my cousin and her husband. It has been booked for at least a year and I really can't believe it has come round so fast. I am largely disorganised but it's really just a case of throwing summer things into a case and sorting my medication. I have ordered all my drugs recently so should have plenty - it's hard to keep ahead of this all the time although my GP surgery now does an order online thing which is pretty cool!

The other piece of news is that the podcast I recorded for the student BMJ has now been released. It's quite long but I speak mostly at the start and then a little bit more towards the end - overall I am quite pleased with the result although it was so long ago that I don't remember saying most of it! The medical information on transplants is really good though so it's a good resource for students. You can listen to it here

Well I am off for a wee dinner tonight with some people from my old work which will be lovely, and I will attempt not to whinge too much about the room thing at my new work ;-) This weekend is quite busy as Corey is up visiting and it is my uncles garden fete on Sunday so we are heading through for that. I will try not to spend too many pennies but do tend to get carried away on the bottle stall...