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[03 Nov 2009|11:26pm] |
I went home early both Thursday and Friday last week I was feeling a little light headed, but more over had bad head and back aches which were just becoming stupid bad when my job is sitting in front of a computer. I felt OK again Sat-Mon but a little poor again today (Tuesday). Seems a bit weird that it would go and come back like that. It's not as bad as before at least.
Thinking of applying for a new job (internally).
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[27 Oct 2009|10:22pm] |
10:18 PM rhapsody2005: go for it
10:19 PM rhapsody2005: use thunder
10:19 PM Panimu: thunder!
10:20 PM rhapsody2005: orim thunder
10:20 PM Panimu: thunder!
10:20 PM Panimu: thunder cats!
10:20 PM rhapsody2005: there you go
10:21 PM Panimu: ho!
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[22 Oct 2009|07:32pm] |
Went out last night doing my little hobby thing, went 3 wins to 0 losses. Doesn't really mean much as it's fairly casual and early in the format.
Today at work got stuck into my next project, very very simple stuff. Just changing some wording on templates.. but that doesn't mean I didn't find 2 mistakes on the solution the designer passed down to me. Both of them could easily have been passed into test and onto Live if I hadn't noticed. With any luck I'll finish this project before Monday
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[19 Sep 2009|09:27pm] |
By any chance are any of you out there both American and have a Steam account?
If you have time to do me a favour Email me please :)
ljussteam@panimu.com
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[16 Sep 2009|12:53am] |
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I feel strangely morose tonight. Like a fixed point in these dimensions we all share and yet I'm moving through them like a marble through fog. Nothing in my way impacts me, alters my course or slows me down. What then is my destination? Is this numbness a transition and if so then what to? It could just be a come down I think.
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[27 Aug 2009|11:03pm] |
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Last day in work tomorrow for 2 weeks, everything important finished then next week.. Greece!
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[27 Jun 2009|02:14am] |
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im drunk, post ur phone number quick
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[26 Jun 2009|09:20am] |
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This morning I woke up to a dream about Lamy. we'd had a blind date at the restaurant, I was 5-10 minutes late, there was a birthday party happening and the waiter said she refused to see me..
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[29 Dec 2008|12:38am] |
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Argh Maximum The Hormone toured the UK and I had no idea. Goddamnit, I'm so pissed with myself.
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[11 Dec 2008|11:33pm] |
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Fred, you were an amazing man; you left us too early, the world is poorer for your passing.
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[05 Dec 2008|09:20am] |
Code Monkey not thinking so straight
;)
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[18 Oct 2008|09:43pm] |
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my pc is broken btw, has been a while
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[23 Jul 2008|09:52pm] |
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i want to join a maximum the hormone tribute band.
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[10 Jul 2008|09:43pm] |
OK, I don't update much, so here's some 15 month old news! Please note, not checked for grammar or spelling
In fact, lets go back further. I'm 30 now, back when I was younger I was very needle phobic (and also phobic of the idea of losing blood) so I didn't donate blood. But I had managed to give a blood sample when I felt ill so I thought I'd join the Anthony Nolan Bone Marrow Donor list as it's just a blood sample to join and the procedure, should I be matched, is done under with you knocked out.
So I did that aged about 20 and that's what they call a generic level 1 test. I was a bit of a match for someone so then they did the generic level 2 test, but it went no further. Now those details stay on file forever.
After doing all these I decided to try giving blood. I've been doing it regularly since then, and it always makes me feel really queasy and the nurses often worry about how pale I go. But it's not a big deal really.
About 26-27 I was tested for a level 3 match. A level 3 is when they are testing you against someone specifically and those results are only good for that person. I didn't hear anything further so I guess I wasn't a match.
This happened again about 6 months later.
And then again a year later. This time they took about twice as much blood as the previous two times and about 60-70% through it I feel really queasy, more so then I ever have giving blood. Part of it is because it's a different system when giving a sample as opposed to a Unit. I felt like I was going to be ill at some points but I told her to keep going as that was preferable to stopping and having to restart.
Anyway. They tell you you'll hear back inside 3 months of a level 3 if they need you, but it took a long time for them to finally come back on that last one. They wanted me, they needed some Grade A Paul Bone Marrow. The first stage of this was I went off alone to the hospital in London (I believe it's called simply London Clinic) and it was near Euston station I think. Once there they take even more blood, about the same quantity as last time. I must have some kind of quantity limit because once again I felt really queasy and sick. I'd told the Doctor of my last reaction and he kept up a good, mostly 1 sided, rattle about the disease the patient has. I've been on this list for 10 years just on the basis that I know it can save a life but I know bugger all about the disease. For example I didn't know if it was the kind of thing that was always fatal as it were, or if it's something that can be managed for a long time. I also can't spell it which is why I'm avoiding typing the name!
The most fun (?) thing about it is, and maybe you don't realise this, is that the recipient gets my Blood Making Machine. Basically they zap all his bone marrow with radiation then slosh mine into his body, and all your blood is made in the marrow so that means his blood type actually changes .. ! Btw, blood type has nothing to do with being a marrow match for someone. So rare blood type doesn't mean you shouldn't sign up or anything.
So that all passes and work has OK'd me to have free (paid!!) time off for surgery and recovery. I just got back with Louise after our first breakup at about this point but I'd already asked my mother to come with me (the charity pays for one person to come with you and puts them up in a hotel) and I think she wanted to be there for me and such. So, I have a schedule like this:
Monday- admitted into the hospital in the evening
Tuesday- surgery first thing in the morning, recover during the day
Wednesday- checkout
rest of that week and the week after, recover at home
So Monday is fine, I check-in but can't sleep due to nerves. I'd been offered something to help me sleep earlier and I ask for it about 11pm or so.
Tuesday I have to dress up in a gown and these funny socks that help prevent blood clots and they wheel me down to the theatre. My first stop is in this funny little room where they hook me up with some needles. One of the doctors is quite the comedian (in a good way) and tells me first he's giving me some champagne (morphine?) and I start to feel very funny, also in a good way. Then he goes on to give me something else.. and I don't remember anything else until I'm waking up in the recovery ward. A nurse notices I'm awake, checks up on and me and tells me I have to wait here for a while. I feel very groggy and I remember quite enjoying it actually.
So they wheel me back to my room, and then I have to swap rooms 'cos someone with a large family needs my big room, and I'm put in a smaller (but still private room), which is fine, but still, grrr. Mum visits of course and brings me cakes and snacks. I have an IV drip all this time which I have to wheel with me to the bathroom. I feel quite sore in my back area, like as if I'd fallen and bruised myself quite badly. Nothing too bad tho, not like some whingers fear.
Did I tell you what they do? They bore 5 holes in the back of your hip and then dredge out bone marrow through syringes. They have another method now too, they can hook you up to a machine that filters your blood (after a long course of injections) to collect marrow from your blood (the injections free it up to be there). But that idea goes back to me being sickened by the idea losing blood. I'd rather be knocked out and have big syringes.
A woman from the trust visits me at some point with questionnaires and so forth. I'm asked if I'd like to receive updates on my recipient and if I'm open to contact, I say yes to both. And at some point we go home on the train, I can't remember if I made my mother walk home for the car once we got to Macclesfield but I think I did. It's only about 5minutes up the road.
The rest of my time off Louise took care of me, I was expecting it to be a joss mostly but on the first day back (so Thursday) we went to Tesco as I had nothing in. After about 10minutes walking around, if that, I started to feel really light headed and woozy. This happend a lot over my recovery but it was fine, I just shouldn't really be doing anything.
The Iron pills they gave me made my poo a funny colour.
About a year later I hear my recipient is doing 100% on some special scale they have and some months later that's confirmed and I won't hear more from the trust as he's now fully recovered.
So that's the story of I how I helped save a life, and ate a lot of cake doing it.
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[01 Jul 2008|08:27pm] |
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ZOMG! Diablo3!
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[09 Jun 2008|06:28pm] |
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I've been feeling off colour for the past 8 days or so. Sore, bad head (slightly light headed, dizzy maybe) and headaches. Not serious enough to take time off work, but enough that I can't work properly. Also, I noticed I've been browsing my friends pages on my mobile without being logged in, oops.
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[25 Apr 2008|06:12pm] |
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Feels like forever that I've not had to work on a weekend. Don't know what to do with myself now ^_^
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[31 Mar 2008|05:23pm] |
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I need a new TV or anime series to watch, any suggestions? Thanks!
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[28 Mar 2008|09:35pm] |
This made me LOL for about 20 seconds. Maybe the lead up of 2 more pages of these things first made it funnier tho :D
see more crazy cat pics
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