On Saturday, it’ll be 12 years since i managed to bugger up my life by having a terrible bike accident.

Can’t say I can think of any positives other than free tube travel.

🤦‍♂️

Omw, how good are Wet Leg?!
That lady has to be the sexiest woman on earth.

I think all 5000 people in the venue, male and female, all fancied her.

Me n Jeanie had a blast.

New antibiotics!
As in new for me anyway.
God it’s a fight to get drugs to treat infections. It’s like they do and say anything possible to stop you having medication that’ll cure you.
Obviously it’s not the same all over the world- you can just buy what you want in many countries, almost without regulation.
Here though, even when it’s blindingly obvious that you need something different to what failed to cure you last time.. they still don’t want to give it to you.

But finally I am on something new.
After 36 hours, it’s better than it was before I started.

Fingers crossed.

And I’m seeing Wet Leg in Brixton tonight.

Sounds like something that happens to me from time to time in real life.
Doh.

And I went to the Chelsea Flower show yesterday- very nice too.

So I went to see my urologist yesterday.
I went because he wanted a fresh specimen to test, and also to supply me with a new therapy – called cystastatine.

We had a chat and he said that when I went in a few weeks ago and I had a test , he was surprised by the results. He said that it’s not just about the bugs in the urine, it’s about the amount of white blood cells – the measure of inflammation.
He said that my count was 600.
I said – is that high? What’s normal?

He said – normal is zero.
600 is VERY High.

See – told you I’ve been ill.



Am I or aren’t I free of this infection?
Half the time I think I am and half I don’t…

I left a urine specimen yesterday so that should tell me.

I’m getting some very different physical changes ( not necessarily positive ) that are occurring, so clearly my body has undergone a change.
Therefore I think I am probably free of infection for the first time in years possibly.

I slept reasonably well last night ( for me ) so I’m optimistic.

I went to see Giant the other night
It’s about Roald Dahl, and the period in his life that he was accused of being anti Semitic.

The play leaves you to make your own conclusions on whether he was ( at all ) or not.

It was very good and it was about his character and personality. Blunt and straight talking ( my kinda guy! ) to me he was the best type of character.

Being accused of being anti Semitic wouldn’t have been good for sales of his books, but I don’t think he was bothered in the slightest about money anyway, so his reaction to the accusations weren’t influenced by that.

It seemed to me that he was probably like most British people are about the Jewish race – incredibly appalled by their persecution by the Nazis, as well as almost certainly siding with them in their ongoing Middle Eastern racial conflicts, but at the same time hoping that their actions are ‘ measured’.
No war/ killing is best.

As for Mr Dahl, he probably did say the odd crass thing, but who hasn’t, ever?
It’s probably a very good thing that he wasn’t in his heyday now, now that every single thing people write is scrutinised so much.
Now of course his books are being ‘sanitised’ to remove anything offensive to anyone at all.
Christ, what a ridiculous state of affairs.

At the end of the day, no matter what you think of him, his books are uniquely brilliant.

After a big hiccup in the second night.. i think this treatment has worked.
God, please let in continue.
2 decent sleeps ( 1 shite one in the middle ) and lots of other unexpected stuff happening to my body.
No, I can’t walk or anything.

But it’s positive.

Well bugger me.
A mere 10 hours after my first intravenous injection of the right antibiotics, and I slept better than i have for 18 months.
It’s not fully effective until 3 days in but bloody hell, what a difference.

So I go into hospital on Monday and will be on an antibiotic intravenous drip for a least 2/3 days.

The practicalities of staying in a hospital when you have my physical problems are exacting.

My history is invariably to leave the hospital with more severe health issues than when I went in.
I’m sure I contracted this infection in London Bridge hospital in Sept 2023.

At last.
Confirmation that I DO have some nasty infection inside me that isn’t responsive to regular antibiotics.
I’ve been on a cycle of the standard antibiotics for 18 months or so and it never seems to get better.
I’ve felt like shite and been massively sleep deprived ever since September 2023 when I believe I got this infection.
So whilst it means that ill have to go into hospital for a period for the drugs to be administered intravenously… ill hopefully be rid of whatever it is that has been causing me SO MANY PROBLEMS for 18 months now.

Light at the end of a long tunnel.
Mind you, a normal hospital is really, really not suitable for me .. so that’s the added complication. I’ve asked if it’s possible to be in having the IV drip for most of the days and then come out at nights to sleep and do what I need to do.
Gawd.