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A Quick Update With Added Thanks.

27 Friday Jul 2012

Posted by boldkevin in Announcement, Depression, Leg Swelling, Mental Health, Mental Illness, Poor Physical Health

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I have received so many words of encouragement lately in regards to my physical health and so many wonderful messages of support and compassionate concern.

I am truly grateful for each and every one of these.  You are all so very special and so incredibly kind.

Not being able to spend a lot of time in my study at my desk is depressing me somewhat but I am keeping in mind the importance of being responsible in respect of physical health as well as mental health so am coping quite well I think.

The good news is that my leg has indeed reduced some in respect of the swelling and is not only half the size it was, so that is really good.  It also means that keeping it elevated is having some benefit.

Of course keeping it elevated and taking a decent picture of it is not the easiest thing in the world but I think this picture does (if you compare it to my foot) show how it has at least reduced in swelling to about half the size it was. So I am delighted.

I have company arriving next week and that means I should be able to get out of the house more, since they drive and one of their main priorities is to take me out more whenever they come over each year and so I am keen to get this leg down in readiness for that.

So again many thanks to each and every one of you for your support and concern and encouragement.
Kind regards and God bless you.
Kevin

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Restful Day

11 Sunday Dec 2011

Posted by boldkevin in Behavior, Bipolar Disorder, Chronic Fatigue, CFS, CFIDS, & M.E., Journal Entry, Leg Swelling

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So today has been a very restful day for me and one that I think I really needed.

This morning I did nothing as I was asleep and in fact managed to sleep fairly soundly and continuously other than one or two waking moments that were very short-lived.

This for me is very unusual and if anything confirms to me how out of sorts I am at the moment.  Hm is it possible that actually I am in sorts today and out of sorts all other days?  See that is one of the things about “normality” it is nothing more than a world precariously perched on an every moving skateboard.

What is normal to one is alien to another and indeed what it normal to one now may not be normal later on since normality is comparative.

I think it was the English writer Nigel Kneale who wrote of his art of writing – “The trick is the paradox – turning your story inside out. Now if it is something that appears to be of total normality and then suddenly turns inside out and is a different thing all together then that’s fun to write.”

For the mental illness sufferer normality is a paradox that tricks you into believing your story is inside out even when it is in fact right side in.  Or indeed is that in itself a paradigm since it contains the constant that is you throughout it all – if indeed a mental illness sufferer can indeed be considered a constant in any sense of the word?

But I digress.

As I said I had a morning of sleep followed by an afternoon and evening of rest.  Well almost rest – for I don’t think I am actually able of going a whole day resting.  This afternoon I popped to a neighbor’s house to fix their computer and then later I did some tidying (only a small amount since actually I shouldn’t have done any.

This evening my son and his partner popped in so that he could save the world via the exploits of his Xbox 360 and she joined me in watching some television.   Thankfully our services in respect of saving the world were not required as yet, which is possibly a good thing since I have been a party to saving the world via the Xbox 360 and am as much use as a fire guard constructed of chocolate.

Once the world was saved, or so it seems, the normal reward is to educate Dad as to your requirements for Christmas and then t0 say good night having a) extinguished all present enemies living in the world of the Xbox 360 gamer at that time and b) nominated your chosen bounty.

Who exactly nominated me as paymaster general  I am not quite sure but I have a feeling that it is a position that I earned resultant from some carnal lust that I suffered some 21 years ago approximately 9 months before my son’s birth.

So for all you budding or relatively new parents who might be reading this and who think that you are responsible for your children until they reach the age of 18 or (21 if American) – forget it, I am fairly sure it is a life-long responsibility.  But please don’t tell my son I said so.

More resting followed their departure and so I thought I would publish a quick post to this blog before retiring for the night.

As you can no doubt guess from this posting whilst I am still mentally and physically drained I am still able to be fairly optimistic about things.  I am very grateful for this as physically I am still suffering from the bleeding and my leg is still ballooned regardless of my having rested all (well most) of the day.

Hopefully tomorrow will be just as restful although I am already aware of things that I so desperately want to get done and am not sure just how long I can be “well-behaved” for by continuing to rest as directed by my doctor.  Especially given the fact that actually I already haven’t rested as directed since today I have been out and fixed a computer and then undertook some housework instead of completely resting.  Hm perhaps I will leave it there.

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A Fairly Restful Day.

29 Tuesday Nov 2011

Posted by boldkevin in Bipolar Disorder, Chronic Fatigue, CFS, CFIDS, & M.E., Journal Entry

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Bipolar Disorder, Chronic Fatigue, CFS, CFIDS, & M.E., Depression, Joy, leg swelling

I had a fairly restful day today, all things being equal.

Was meant to go to bible study this evening but unfortunately this was not to happen.  Nobody’s fault just a matter of circumstance and I am grateful when I can go 🙂

When I woke up this morning I found that I was still incredibly tired.  Not just sleepy tired or mentally tired but physically tired.  Bodily tired as I like to call it.  I had a very real struggle to get out of bed and as I lay there I couldn’t help wondering if my mental health  or my blood sugars had dropped drastically over night as both of these can lead to similar results.

Despite the way that I felt I did actually manage to drag myself out of the bed and get some work done around the house.  Nothing major needed doing.  Just a few dishes to wash up, some laundry to put into the machine ready for the next wash cycle and some light dusting.

My leg was also giving me a great deal of pain and so I decided that once the housework was done I would rest it up.  Of course me being me I didn’t exactly rest it as much as I should have done and in fact again did far more than I should have.

One of the things that I did do and that needed doing (but that I know I should have waited for my son Matthew to come and do for me) is to change the battery in the smoke detector in my kitchen.

The picture of a man of my size and my limited balance and mobility climbing up on a chair in order to change a smoke detector battery is not a pretty one and yes I know how dangerous it was for me to do it and that I will probably be in trouble for having done it.

But trust me the intermittent beeping warning me to get the battery changed was annoying me and so I just got up there and did it and hey at my size I have to bounce if I fall right?

I also managed to write a post on Joy today.  I had promised to do it and it was on my conscience that I had not done it yet.

Other than that I did rest really. Oh apart from mopping all my floors as they were looking a little shabby. But apart from that I rested LOL.

Going to have an early night tonight as I am still very tired.  Who knows, I might have a restful day tomorrow.

 

 

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Really not liking the compression stockings!

27 Sunday Nov 2011

Posted by boldkevin in Diabetes, Leg Swelling, Poor Physical Health, Scarring

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Circulation, diabetes, leg swelling, Personal Journal, scarring

I have decided that I am going to stop wearing the compression stockings until I have had a chance to speak with the pharmacist or doctor again.

The reason for my wearing them in the first place is because one of my legs gets severely swollen by the end of the day unless I am able to keep it elevated all the time which then reduces the amount of swelling slightly.

In fact the picture above which was taken after a day of resting show’s the average level of swelling that I experience with it, but trust me had I not had rested that day it would have grown a lot more swollen.  As you can see whilst all of the leg is swollen the main area of swelling seems to be from below the knee down as far as the toes.

Because of this I was prescribed knee-length compression stockings to use in order to remove/reduce some of the swelling,   But I am simply not getting on with them and actually they cause more discomfort than the swelling itself.

Knowing that I was going to church today and that I was being picked up just after 10 am I waited until just before leaving before putting on the stocking and wore it right the way up until I arrived home around five.  At which point I simply couldn’t tolerate wearing them anymore.  So I removed them the moment I got home. And on seeing what my leg looked like I decided to take a photo so I could show the pharmacist.

 

The above picture shows the level of swelling after only 7 hours most of which being spent sitting down.

The the first/top arrow of the above picture illustrates how high the compression stocking normally is when I first put them on.

The second/middle arrow illustrates the markings that are left by the stocking rolling down and bunching up soon after I have put the stockings on.

The third or lower arrow illustrates the markings that I get as a result of the bunching up that takes place around the ankle area.

As you can see by comparing the two photo’s (and indeed my two legs in the first photo) the shape of my legs both when swollen and when not swollen are such that keeping long stockings up is very difficult.  So actually I can’t help thinking that these current stockings are doing more harm than good.

By the time I have removed the stocking some days, my skin is so sensitive and so dry that even the slightest of brushing against then or the slightest of scratching to alleviate the itching brings about bleeding and that really worries me as I am very concerned about scarring and infection especially since I am also diabetic.

 

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