Bite me!
Had a bit of a panic on wednesday, as was reading through an old guidebook that I had for China that included a chapter on Tibet, and it went on and on about the possible risk of rabies due to all the mad foaming at the mouth dogs that apparently run wild in the remote areas. "Make sure you get vaccinated" it said, so despite the travel health database telling me that I'd probably not need it, I went to the local travel clinic who agreed that if we were going to be more than 24 hours away from civilisation, that it was worth having (maybe worth it more for them as the course of 3 jabs is £135). Anyway, I've not got time before I go to complete the course, but had the first one this week and having the second next week, which should give enough coverage. Better safe than sorry, and hopefully I'll get my money's worth by going to some more places sometime that require it. Was rather sore though as I had a hep B booster the same day, so only had limited use of my arms as they were both bruised and achey!
I'm glad it's the end of the week as I feel generally tired, seem to have developed a touch of hayfever so have a slightly bunged up nose and have been sneezing lots. Only a week til I go away, and got a busy weekend lined up, but still managing to keep up with some friends - had a nice long chat with one the other night where we seemed to spend most of it comparing the operations that we have both had in recent months! Always good to have a gory old moan though. On that note, I removed the remainder of my stitches last night as they were beginning to dissolve and come loose, so I poked around a bit and managed to get virtually all of them out, it now looks a lot tidier rather than having bits of manky string hanging out from the edges of the wound.
I see that I have had a second entry for the yak butter diet sweepstake, seems the lads (Steve, predicting I will drop 6lbs, and Stu who has gone for 7lbs) are being fairly generous in their estimations. Suppose it might help to know what the starting weight is so that you can use this to work out what a reasonable loss would be, but there is no bloody way I'm going to tell you that. Suffice to say that I am not going to miss a few pounds and even if a whole stone were to disappear, I wouldn't yet be into anorexic territory based on BMI. But neither am I some immense behemoth, I did the math today and worked out that I do not qualify for the surgery's obesity register (silly new contract says that we, as GPs, have to keep a record of all our patients who are clinically obese). So that was a relief.
I'm glad it's the end of the week as I feel generally tired, seem to have developed a touch of hayfever so have a slightly bunged up nose and have been sneezing lots. Only a week til I go away, and got a busy weekend lined up, but still managing to keep up with some friends - had a nice long chat with one the other night where we seemed to spend most of it comparing the operations that we have both had in recent months! Always good to have a gory old moan though. On that note, I removed the remainder of my stitches last night as they were beginning to dissolve and come loose, so I poked around a bit and managed to get virtually all of them out, it now looks a lot tidier rather than having bits of manky string hanging out from the edges of the wound.
I see that I have had a second entry for the yak butter diet sweepstake, seems the lads (Steve, predicting I will drop 6lbs, and Stu who has gone for 7lbs) are being fairly generous in their estimations. Suppose it might help to know what the starting weight is so that you can use this to work out what a reasonable loss would be, but there is no bloody way I'm going to tell you that. Suffice to say that I am not going to miss a few pounds and even if a whole stone were to disappear, I wouldn't yet be into anorexic territory based on BMI. But neither am I some immense behemoth, I did the math today and worked out that I do not qualify for the surgery's obesity register (silly new contract says that we, as GPs, have to keep a record of all our patients who are clinically obese). So that was a relief.
posted by Hannah | 10:49 pm
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And I was too much of a Gentleman to enquire Te he.
Perhaps I should have suggested a possible weight loss range, a bit like spread betting. Ah well, too late now.
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