Well at least i managed a nice lay in till 7.30am this morning. It just goes to prove what i thought ages ago with regards to the cold weather setting of the attacks and making my condition worst than it should be. Due to the warmer weather and it not dropping to almost freezing i don’t have any signs of the beast coming. Normally, in winter time, i would be woken at around 3am in the morning in absolute agony and shootings pains up and down the spine. Now the warmer weather is here i am not getting the nasty wake up calls so it is making a huge difference when it comes to my strength and energy. I don’t feel so drained all the time.
I am still suffering due to this infection that seems to be in my lung on the right side of the body. The doctor seems to think its quite a bad one as it was immune to the first lot of antibiotics we threw at it so i am now on a second course and that should hopefully shift what ever it is causing the infection. This is the first chest infection i have ever had that involved my lungs and i have to admit it is scary and worrying. It is also the first infection that has caused me so much pain and agony. The only infection i have had that i can compare the pain to is a kidney infection when it is painful to go to the toilet. That's the level of pain you get but in your side and no matter what you do you can’t sit lay or stand comfortably.
Its such a shame i am suffering from an infection as i could have gone fishing today. The local fishing club has been holding competitions for the members and today is the last match of the winter league. I could have fished it but this year was impossible due to the attacks i was getting in the cold weather. I have missed all of the winter matches so will now have to make an effort to attend the summer ones. I am hoping with the new tablets and as soon as i get rid of this infection i will be able to go back out on the lakes and fisheries and start catching fish again.
Fingers crossed this weather will continue to improve again now and that's the last we will see of the winter for another year. It’s mad, just when you think the seasons are about to change and things start to warm up, nature throws a spanner in the works and returns to winter all over again. These weird weather patterns never used to exist when i was a nipper. I don’t think i have ever seen such bad weather as we do now days. It used to be such a rare occasion that if we had gale force winds it would be in every news paper and on TV. Now that its such a regular occurrence it is taken as part of every day weather and no one bats an eye lid. Strange how our attitudes change to different things over time.
