MissUnderstanding

A belated Happy New Year to all readers of this blog. Unfortunately I’ve not had a good start to 2012 due to an allergic reaction to antibiotics. On Hogmanay, itchy blotches popped up all over my body. Where clothes touched my skin a new spot instantly appeared.  I ended up wearing a sheet and lathering myself in calamine lotion – not a pretty sight.  I stayed up for “the Bells” only because I couldn’t sleep and at 5am in the morning I was on the phone to NHS Scotland.  A trip to the doctors on New Year’s morning resulted in a week on antihistamines making me feel completely spaced out. Luckily the blotches have now disappeared and I almost feel like my old self again.  Here’s wishing everyone a healthy, happy and blotch-free 2012!

I’ve been “Missing in Action” from the blog recently due to a yucky head cold and horrible cough which gets worse at night when I’m trying to get some shut eye,  so writing anything  at all has been a step too far for my sleep deprived brain.

However every cloud really does have a silver lining because :

1. Not being able to sleep means I can catch up on the TV recordings I’ve made but somehow never get around to watching. I work on the 80 / 20 rule. I usually watch only 20% of what I’ve recorded while the other 80% eventually gets deleted to make space for the next lot of stuff I probably won’t watch.

2. Eating and drinking stops me coughing.  Especially crisps.

Of course this silver lining in itself has a cloud and I’m turning into even more of a couch potato. HELP! Need cold / cough remedies fast before I turn into the shape and size of my sofa….