August is not my favorite month.
Written on 30 August 2008 by WheelzSo what has happened to me over the last few weeks to keep me from writing in. Where to start? Well as you know I was back in hospital for a week. During that time I had a tube placed through my back into my kidney. This isn’t the nicest and most comfy thing in the world. Almost 3 weeks later and it still hurts when I move around. It turned out I spent a week in the Hallamshire and then was sent home for a week until the return journey to hospital. This time I was on familiar ground at the Spinal injuries department. I followed my instructions to go up to the ward and as I got there, it turns out that no-one expected me. A great way to start the day. After a few minutes of panic, I was hustled down to the day ward and into the clutches of the consultant. 2 hours later and I’d had various liquids pushed into me while rigged up to a computer and still this didnt make anything clearer to the doctors. Go home and come back in two weeks I was told.
So I go back on Monday for the repeat tests and do I think they will show anything different? No chance. This leaves two options that I can see. Either they just send me home for another 2 weeks or they decide to keep me in again until I’m sorted. Either option I’m not that thrilled about so i’ll just have to wait and see.
My new stay in hospital. (The Yo-Yo effect)
Written on 8 August 2008 by WheelzSo on Tuesday I got a phone call from my consultant to tell me that although yesterday she was happy with the results of my blood test, this morning she decided that I was still pretty ill. This is news to me as I’m starting to feel pretty good again. So now I’m back in hospital awaiting more tests and a few tubes stuck into my body for god knows how long.
I don’t mind been in hospital when I feel ill as I can see that its going to make me better, but when I feel like I am now then I get pretty pissed off. If I haven’t mentioned this before, I have the worlds biggest needle phobia. I mean big time phobia. Last month when I was sent to hospital I had to go to A&E first and they put a canula into me (This is like a needle which stays in your arm so that they can put stuff in it without having to put an injection in every time). I almost passed out. The room was spinning after he stabbed me with the thing and I had to lay down as I was pretty sure the consciousness was about to leave me behind.
So as you can see I’m not thrilled about coming in here again. What makes it even more horrifying to me is that when I saw the doctor this evening he obviously hadn’t read my notes because he wanted to do something to me that was physically impossible and he would have known that if he had spend 30 seconds and read my file.
Looking forward to tomorrow.
Having a go at listening to the Doctor for a change
Written on 4 August 2008 by WheelzSo today I went back to the hospital to see my consultant. For anyone who is interested, the reason I have such a gap in posting in July is that I was very ill in hospital and didn’t have my laptop with me. Although I was only in for a week, I was very ill and I was let home on the provision that I did as I was told to by the doctors. Now this might sound like a stupid statement but i have a track record of forgetting to do what I’m told if I start to feel ok after a bout of illness. But this time I’m going to give it a go and do what I’m told to. This is slightly upsetting as today I was told that my blood count it too low and my kidney problem count is too high and I have to have more time off work until they settle down. Hurrah! i hear you say, but its not. As explained in my last post I don’t think of this as a holiday but as a time to recover. Except while I feel fine in myself (and my test results clearly show this is not the case) I’m starting to get an itch to go back to work.
Therefore I’m starting to get cabin fever and I’m hoping that this is the last time that I will hear the words
Stay off work for a while longer.
Until next time…..
I have no willpower
Written on 1 August 2008 by WheelzOn 11th July, Apple released the iPhone 3G. At the time I looked at it with envy because I was stuck with the original iphone which I bought on release day by standing in a queue for 2 hours in London. I thought that I was not going to be able to have the new one because I was tied into the contract, but then 02 did a nice thing. Let iphone users upgrade early to the 3G. I was going to do that, but over the next few days I decided against it. I didn’t need it, I had a nice one already but I have to report that my willpower deserted me and yesterday I came home with my shiny black 16gb iPhone 3G.
So is it worth it? Well I think so. The download speeds from the internet are a lot quicker which is something that means alot to me as I use the internet and email on my iphone quite a lot. But as with all weak men, I ended up buying the accessories - namely new headphones (shure SE210) and a new dock because of the new shape.
On another bright note, I go back to the hospital on Monday and hopefully get the all clear to go back to work. Don’t get me wrong having time off sick is a nice thing, but after a few weeks you’ve done everything in the house you want and I now just want to get back to normality and go to work. You see, I don’t go and treat it like a holiday. I guess this is because when I was younger my mum used to say to me
If you are too ill to go to school then you must be too ill to play out.
That stopped me from skipping school because there wasnt any point if I was to be confined to my bedroom while I was ‘ill’
The First Dance
Written on 22 July 2008 by WheelzI’m getting married next year after being engadged for a few years now so Mrs-to-be has started looking around again at places to have parties etc. I’m looking forward to it also so marrage type things which I’ve seen have sometimes perked my interest lately. Well I found this on the internet and thought it would be cool to put up here.
Finally today a note on what I write on here. They are my own thoughts at a particular time. For example the post about my best mate. I make no appologies for defending him in anything he does, I’ve grown up with him and friendship can be blind to what rights and wrongs are. The comments I made about his ex are my opinions and no-one elses. I have a right to express what I think on my own blog. If she was upset by my comments, its a bit tough but at the time that is what I had to say on the matter. Througout life people come and go through you circle and your lucky if you have a long term friend, especially guys and being loyal is a trait which I think you need in a friend however misplaced that loyalty is.
Man, bet you thought I was dead?
Written on 1 July 2008 by WheelzHi again. So sorry for not posting for ages, I kind of went through a little slump of feeling sorry for myself and the last thing I wanted to do was write on here. So what has being 33 years old done for me upto now?
Well first thing is that I’ve been ill pretty much all the time since April and i’m just getting over it now (which might be a reason my mood is picking up lot) . Oh yeah, in May I went to London for the week with my partner on the pretence of an urban holiday, although I was at the @media2008 conference for two of those days. I’ll tell you all about that next time - I don’t want to go and create a long post that no-one is going to read when I can tease you all!!!
Work was also pretty crap. I was being left out of important meeting which I felt I needed to be involved in because at some point in the future I would be doing the work and there were issues which needed addressing at the time. But this has changed dramatically in the last week. I’ve have two managers at the moment; a real line manager who looks after the holidays and I have to share the office with her and the team, and then there is the firms webmaster who is my ‘workload’ manager (my other one doesn’t know what I do most of the time and isn’t technical enough to understand it). So last Monday I was asked to take on a project that another member of the team wanted to offload as she was on her holidays. Basically I was asked to turn a few pdf documents into a full blown ebook in a week. I did pretty well and if I do say so myself I did a pretty good job of it. Anyway we had the meeting with the guy who is funding this bit of work and he was very pleased, but we (meaning I) have decided to go further and produce an all singing-all-dancing version in the next month. I was asked if I could do it which I said I could but didn’t know how yet. My boss then said
We don’t have a don’t know how to do it. Its a challenge
which is certainly is, but this is the thing I love doing, so work is picking up and I’m enjoying it again.
My partner is a star, still love her to bits even though for the last week all she has been doing is playing Indiana Jones Lego on my Xbox360. But I’d rather have her in there playing than not have her atall like my best friend.
Last Monday I got a text message from him to say that his girfriend had broken up with him. Now, I was pretty pleased about that !?!?!?! Not because I like to see my friend in pieces and upset, but because she was leading him on and being unfair to him. This was made more apparent to me when I was told that she didn’t even have the guts to break up with him on the phone or face-to-face. She txt him!!!! There is only one word that I can think of to sum her up
BITCH!
He’s cut to pieces but I’m sure he’ll get over her. He’s got good friends and its like the Carling Advert when all his mates turn up on their horses to get him out of the house.
This post is far too long so I’ll stop now. Catch you later
It’s my birthday!!
Written on 22 April 2008 by WheelzYep, i’m now in my mid 30’s and feeling old. But on the bright side i’ve still got the best part of 2 weeks off work so thats good. So what am I doing to celebrate my day? My sister is moving house today so I’m off to help her with all the tv and computer setting up.
Just before I go though, I found this video which gave me a laugh this morning. Some enterprising young fellow !?!? mashed up Star Wars and Coming to America to get this funny video.
Free for 17 Days
Written on 18 April 2008 by WheelzWell, its 4pm and I have escaped from work for 2 whole weeks. No need to go into the office and I’m going to try not to check my email (which will be hard) until May 6th. So what have I got planned?
Firstly, tomorrow sees the start of The World Snooker Championships. I love snooker and will be sat infront of the TV watching that for most of the time. Apart from that, its my birthday on tuesday so Mrs to be Wheelz is taking me out for dinner somewhere, not sure yet. Other than that, i’m just chillin’
If I think of anything else to do, rest assured you’ll all be some of the first to know.
Where has time gone?
Written on 10 April 2008 by Wheelzgosh, I’ve just been looking through my site and the last time I posted was the beginning of March. My only excuse is Twitter!!! its taken over my life, a fact my girlfriend frequently reminds me of.
So what have you missed? Well I had a friend up from Slough over easter which was nice. much talking of nothing happened and it was a refreshing change to just babble about anything. Then I becme i’ll.
I’m not sure what it wrong with me, I’ve been to the doctors and he’s given me some antibiotics and I’ve also been at the hospital and are taking regular blood tests. My main symptom seems to be exhaustion. Now, i’ve suffered with tiredness for a few years as I have other health problems but over the past couple of days I put panda’s to shame with the size of my black eyes. So my plan for this weekend? Well Sleep, Sleep and more sleep. ( with a break to watch Dr. Who of course)
My brother is taking his photography hobby very seriously at the moment. He’s took some great photos and I hope he sticks at it, but experience tells me that in 6 months or so he’ll be bored of it and his camera will sit in the back of his cupboard gathering dust. Here’s to being proved wrong!!!
Microsoft use their intelligence for once
Written on 4 March 2008 by WheelzI’m sure if any of you are techy then you will have knows about Microsofts plans for IE8. In a nutshell, what they decided they were going to do was to have IE8 display, by default, the same as IE7 and if you wanted it to be displayed in IE8 mode you had to use a meta switch. This pissed off most of the web development community as it seemed that by default we would all be stuck in web circa 2007 unless we coded a switch in.
Well now it appears that common sense has prevailed in Redmond and now unless you specify otherwise IE8 will render pages using the IE8 standards mode. For more information check out this post on the IE site
Finally today I have to put up this advert I saw online. It gave me a laugh as its probably totally true in reality.
