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Bronchitis sucks!!

Omg it does. I was on antibiotics and steroids for 7 days and an inhaler still when needed. It was awful! wasn't just a hacking painful cough, it was not being able to catch your breath, my already low levels of energy even lower. It’s taken 2 and a half weeks to feel well enough to go xmas shopping lol.   I had to reschedule a cat scan on my carotid artery which I have no idea why I'm having which will now happen this Wednesday but also the following week I've to get an ECG and BP monitor for 24 hours as when I was in the doctors for the bronchitis my BP was 150/130 twice which scared my doctor but not me at least not right then but then when she said that was stroke territory.    I've always gotten high readings with blood pressure tests; it affects my Reynaud's a lot. My hand begins to get that prickly painful feeling which makes me feel ick so my bp goes up but not this high.     I was trying not to worry but I got feck all sleep that night worrying abou

Update 2022

So, I’ve done it again! Every time I write in this I promise to write more often and now its been almost a year!!! I really shall endeavor from now on to do this at least bimonthly, if not for anyone who reads this but for my brain pan. So, 2022 thunders towards its end. Health wise I’ve had some new fun sent my way. Firstly, as always there’s been more tests and scans. I get a cat scan every year with contrast on my heart to keep an eye on the clot and ulcer that I have on my aorta which they think caused my stroke . In good news the clot is completely gone. That is great news as it was a constant worry with every stumble and fall, as I do a lot of that, that I would dislodge something and suffer another stroke. The ulcer is weirdly still there but smaller. They still have no idea why it is there so there is that. Even my stroke doctor who I saw in September told me he’s talked to so many specialists about it trying to figure out why it happened, but they are “dumbfounded” to