Diagnosis in the Middle of a Pandemic

I have briefly mentioned it a couple of times but not really spoken a lot about it but as you are reading this I am going to assume we are still in the middle of a pandemic (or are we in the middle? Just hitting the peak? Coming over the peak? Having a second peak? Who even knows anymore.) . COVID-19 swept through the country, causing everywhere to go on lockdown, pubs and clubs closed, shops started social distancing measures, schools closed and the country started to become more like…

Medication

This has weirdly been one of the biggest things that I have had to accept. I will take you on a brief history of me to understand my viewpoint on medication. Again, not a doctor, but this one feels personal. As a sportsperson (and an injury prone one at that) I was well versed in pain medication when in 2015 I broke my leg playing rugby. What should have been a simple break turned into a bit of an ordeal (story of my life apparently) and it was not simple.…

Hospital Food

Food has certainly been interesting while in the hospital. I was initially put on a low fibre diet, but not really told what that entirely means. Now I do know the food groups and I have some idea of what fibre is and what it does BUT when faced with a number of choices of hospital food that I didn’t entirely know what they contained, it is pretty difficult to work out what I am doing. I had a lot of sausages and potatoes with something that they told me…