Symptoms symptoms

All this year, I've been having a multitude of physical ailments. It started with leg pain (still got it!!): behind me knee, in the front part of my thigh, on my ankles... Then my veins on my legs and arms suddenly became very visible, sometimes this was accompanied by more pain. My doctors think I'm a hypochondriac: they looked at my leg, said 'there's nothing wrong with it!' and told me to try to concentrate on other things. Ha! I think that was a cue to start obsessing.... and so I got even more symptoms... This included having allergic reactions to herbal tea (you really couldn't make it up!!), sinusitis after sinusitis, did I mention IBS?, .... etc etc. My arm is also weird, keeps feeling as if I have a trapped nerve. My fingers hurt too. And my back. Also my neck feels a bit tense, recently had shooting pains up past my ear. You get the picture!

Anyway, it probably doesn't need saying that I've visited the doctors quite a lot this year. The last time was last week. They're writing to my therapist about all my ailments, I suppose it hints that there's something wrong mentally somewhere. I had expected it all to have passed by now. But I really want to continue with the therapy, it just makes me feel as if perhaps it might be too much for me, but I hope I'll be able to work through it, pass through the other side without all this.

(but I still think there something wrong with my leg!)

Totally Blackpool...

I'd always imagined that he'd be older, but it's still sad sad news. Comedy actor Inman dies aged 71

I grew watching the likes of John Inman, Danny La Rue, Larry Grayson, etc (and it never did me any harm! Well, not much...) My Humphries was always my favourite on Are You Being Served? Although Miss Brahms was a close second: I thought she was just so trendy! I remember going to see the Are You Being Served? feature film. I must have been about 8 years old. Although it certainly wasn't as good as the TV series, I thought it was fantastic!

Strange rice

Whilst buying some milk and bog roll in my local corner shop tonight I noticed a shelf of rice... Nothing strange in that... BUT there was a sticker placed on all the 'American style' rice that said something along the lines of 'Not made in America. Ignore all references to America'... Huh?! At first I found it hysterically funny: the feeling that they had to put this sticker on so that they could sell the rice and the belief of the terrible effect that the word 'American' would have on the saleability of an item. But, thinking again, it's very depressing: are people really boycotting American goods? I know there's a lot of bad feeling due to Iraq, but....