Fembat

Fembat

Bites

I went out and did some gardening yesterday. The weather was bright and sunny if a little on the damp side. With the fibromyalgia I can't do much - it hurts my back, my shoulders and the standing and crouching is particularly difficult. However, the garden was looking tired so I thought I'd give it a go.

30 minutes later and the patio (outside the conservatory window) was looking much better. I stopped then and decided to leave the rest for another day.

Later in the evening I noticed my arms had become quite itchy and on further inspection I discovered I was covered in raised bumps and blistered. I've got no idea how I got them as I was well covered (it was much too cold to go outside with bare arms). I didn't see any mozzies around so I'm wondering if they are ant bites. Whatever they are I'm not impressed. I need to some hydrocortisone to ease the swellings and the pain

In other news - I'm now officially retired from Royal Mail. I was surprised at how quickly it happened. From medical report to official retirement only took about 5 weeks. I'll receive a severance and payment in lieu of notice in my last pay which will be the end of this month. And that will be that. It's not quite as dramatic a change as I thought it would be. Probably as I've been on the sick for so long. I didn't get chance to say goodbye to my work mates though. I'll have to see if they'll let me in to do that.

And finally - for those of you who remember Isabella's Teddy (No link to the old site as it's been taken over by some company selling real estate; which I suppose is better than links to pr0n!) I've heard from Paul the Postman. Only he's not a postman any more. And the teddy apparently got lost somewhere in outer Mongolia. Or some other obscure place. Anyway, if any of you would like his email address then let me know via elle at bellis dot blogon dot com and I'll get it to you.

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