January 2011
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Health update #9
Great news today, on several fronts:
I had an abdominal ultrasound test which came back clear. This is very good news for reasons I didn’t understand when I had the test: they were checking for tumours that could have caused my pulmonary embolism! I’m glad I didn’t spend the last week worrying about that unpleasant possibility.
For the second day running, my INR reading was above 2.0 (meaning...
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An alternative explanation for the iPhone's...
John Gruber recently linked to a post by Jim Matthews at TidBITS about how his iPhone 4 managed to send some data whilst he was internationally roaming, which he has wittily dubbed “immaculate reception”:
I was astonished when my MacBook Pro notified me about a calendar event that I had entered on my iPhone. Of course, it alerted me 5 hours late (I hadn’t changed the Calendar time...
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According to Danielle the biohazard logo on my sharps box is really small compared to American ones. Even in warning labels, Brits don’t like to make a fuss.
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Health update #8
I went to the anti-coagulation clinic yesterday for my induction session, so I had the full ramifications of my current condition explained to me. It’s rather more complex than I had hoped. Here’s how my immediate future looks:
I will be getting daily warfarin tablets of variable dose levels for the next week, combined with daily blood tests to monitor my INR levels (a measure of the...
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Achievement Unlocked: Get A Diagnosis (health...
My CTPA yesterday (I was a real baby about the cannula, incidentally) has clearly shown the presence of pulmonary embolisms — blood clots in my lung.
Which on the one hand is bad news, because it means this was something that could easily have killed me sometime in the past few weeks (“about 15% of all cases of sudden death are attributable to PE”, as Wikipedia notes). Indeed, a...
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Engadget on the iPad 2, iPhone 5 and Apple TV →
bananacasts:
nikf:
I’m not normally one to post rumour links and the like, but as I’m eagerly awaiting the iPad 2 (having skipped the original) this piqued my interest.
An SD slot would make the iPad a highly mobile digital darkroom with no need for wires, but it would definitely need the boost from the rumored dual-core A5, extra memory, and an improved GPU to handle RAW files from DSLRs —...
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Health update #6
Had a call from the hospital this morning; I have a CT scan booked for next Monday, which will hopefully either find a blood clot in the lung or rule that out as a diagnosis. Next steps beyond that depend on what that test finds; if it’s a clot, it’ll probably be oral warfarin for six months, and might complicate the plans Danielle and I had to travel to Europe a few times this year.
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If being ill has taught me one thing...
…it’s that I wish we still had Tumblarity, because right now my shit be off the hook.
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Diagnosis: Murder
Not really, but it sounds snappier than Diagnosis: We Still Don’t Know But You Can Go Home Now. I spent nearly six hours in the Emergency Admissions Unit of Nevill Hall hospital, where the following facts where gleaned:
an electro cardiogram was clear, with no heart rhythm problems
my blood test results were clear, with no interesting numbers except…
I had a high d-dimer result,...
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More health stuff
I’m being admitted to hospital tonight, for observation and further tests.
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Health update
My blood tests yesterday were all clear and my chest x-ray didn’t reveal any changes in heart size or stuff like that since my last one in mid-2008. Which on the one hand is good news, but on the other still doesn’t answer the what-is-wrong-with-me question. My GP has contacted a cardiologist directly, rather than via the usual admission procedure, to see if he’ll accept me for...
Dripping - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia →
People are asking what this is.
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Health update
Thanks for the well-wishes, folks. Not feeling any better today unfortunately, despite Danielle’s world-class caring for me (seriously, earlier she even took my shoes off for me because bending down was difficult!)
Whilst wearing a pulseox meter, a two-minute walk around the car part at a moderate pace had my blood-oxygen level down to 88% and my heart going at 163bpm. My GP took blood for...
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Bloody illnesses
Last Tuesday I went to the doctor’s with a dry, hacking cough I’d had for a couple of weeks and get every so often. They started to chase a diagnosis of asthma. I did peak flow readings, but they were all super high, suggesting no asthma; plus Ventolin didn’t help at all. Over the weekend, I started getting breathless with a 100+ bpm heart when doing anything physical at all - even walking up...
Contradictory companies
I’ve had this blog post in draft for over a year now. It started with idle chit-chat about companies that make surprising combinations of things, which led to people suggesting other companies over Twitter. Then I compiled this list but couldn’t come up with any sort of narrative around it. Then a year passed, and now the narrative is my ineptitude, and here we are: a list of companies...
“The MG Metro 6R4 (6-cylinder, Rally, 4-wheel drive) made its press debut at...”
– Evo magazine on the Metro 6R4
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NeverSaidAboutRestaurantWebsites →
guillee:
Perfect.
Yes. Perfect.
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