Fiona's Quiet Life

Would you say you are a heavy drinker ? said my G.P.yesterday when he phoned to give me the res­ults of the seven blood tests he had ordered for me last Monday.

No says i with per­fect hon­esty as i drink very little alco­hol, i get drunk so very eas­ily and i don’t like being drunk, that i don’t bother.….…..“a cheap date ” my friends jok­ingly say.….……

I, sud­denly last week got fed up with the con­stant dull pain and feel­ing of tired­ness and breath­less­ness that i have had for months, so i took myself off to the doc with a wee list of symptoms.

he listened to it all, cured my rash with a cream.….……well it is almost gone. .….…and took lots of blood.

so it was all nor­mal except for a slight rais­ing of one liver test and a large rais­ing of another liver test.….three times what it should be.

so he will repeat it all in a months time.

i am hop­ing he heard what i said about my tee­total grand­mother and her cirrhosis.….…it turned out to be genetic in her case an auto immune prob­lem , and as i am right in the middle of five gen­er­a­tions of auto immune prob­lems like dia­betes, tem­poral arter­itis, endo­met­ri­osis, an auto immune liver prob­lem seems fairly likely.….……i did give him a huge clue by say­ing i always felt much bet­ter after donat­ing blood.….….……we shall see.

mean­while it is still painful.

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