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Oh the highs and lows...of steroids!

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Scully

Hello Everybody,

 

Well, the 'silly season ' is almost upon us..I have 8 grandchildren to buy for, plus the added bonus of some 6 birthdays all through December....so my Amazon driver is visiting daily, with armfuls of packages, for which I am eternally grateful.

 

Talking of grandchildren...I picked up the usual cold from the ankle biters a few weeks ago...cold tunred nasty, very nasty, resulting in sinusitis ( ouch ) and a deep chest infection.and very high temps...I struggled on, using Vick, flu capsules and the like....till I could cope no more....mainly because I could also barely walk, and most definitely no stairs....

 

Saw the GP! Who went nuts, coz I left it too long...and left his office with penicillin and a huge course of steroids, to shift the infections, and to give the MS a swift kick..

 

Well....the first dose of steroids found my head swimming, balance gone....and generally felt I'd been hit by a truck....next day, felt much better, by the third I was a veritable superwoman....not much sleep so spent many of the wee hours, working though my birthday and Christmas lists and ordering the lot!

Written Christmas cards....and have almost been marching round the house !

 

Sinus and chest infection have almost given up and cleared off......but I know, as we all do, that come Tuesday or Wednesday.....the crash and burn will arrive...albeit briefly.....but hey....Christmas and birthdays are all organised....

 

As the title says....the highs and the lows of steroid treatment!

 

Scully

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Glad to hear you are feeling better. Wow it sounds a bit as if those were powerful drugs! Yet that is the thing, you need to get back to that 'Balanced' state .............the impossible dream!

 

Nick

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Hi scully get well soon. I have some bad news I'm afraid taking steriods and hoping to compete in the olympics probablyou not a great idea. Ah well here's 4 years time.

Best wishes Peter

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