Pee-boo! You might have noticed social media being a bit quiet for a few days. This is down to me taking to my bed and refusing to wake up.
Why the title? Well, back in the early 1980s I worked as a vet-nurse which has given me an incurable habit of self-diagnosis. To date I have suffered from Parvo-virus, distemper (twice) and rage-syndrome (although that is an understandable mis-diagnosis in my case where I’m actually a bad-tempered old cow).
It takes a trip up to my beloved GP to get my head sorted out. Eventually, packing my assorted symptoms into a large sack, I wandered in and emptied it on his desk. He and the medical student with him last week (charming young lady called Catherine) smiled at me and said “Coma.”
Ah! Got me there, Seb. Trouble is, in my day anyway, dogs and cats didn’t do comas. They got into nasty accidents and were classed as either “mend” or “send”. So it came as rather a surprise to me to be told that patients who have been in a coma take a long time to get over it, dependent on how many days they were in it. Three weeks in my case. Light began to dawn.
Feeling a bit of a tit, it was explained to me very kindly that I couldn’t expect to be dashing around with my memory in-tact and all systems fully functional for quite some time and that falling asleep every half hour or so was a good sign that I was doing too much. Humble apologies and warm handshakes all around.
One of these days I am going to have to admit that not only do I know nothing about the changes in vet medicine since I hung up my op-gown, I am NOT a Basset-hound or Persian Blue so my knowledge of human ailments amounts to ….
You will have gathered from the tone of this post that I’m on the mend. Enough for my laugh to have returned anyway!
Welcome back. What a good sign this post is for your recovery.
xxx Huge Hugs xxx
Huge hugs xxxx mwuh
Good sign indeed. Body takes time to recover and the brain…even longer…
LMAO – I love the way you described packing up your symptoms Ailsa 😀 😀 😀
Good for you, Ailsa. I hope you’re completely well soon. 🙂
Thank you all – if I can still make people laugh- I’m winning. xxx
great news, Ailsa. Soon have you firing on all cylinders!