Me & My Health #27

I realised once I scheduled my last 'Me & My Health' blog post that I hadn't spoken about quite a distressing time of my life last year.

Now before we get onto this, there are some gross pictures coming up.

Flashback to 2024

In 2024 my health took quite a dip, I don't know if it was the stress of my job, the break up of the directors, the awful manager who was not supportive and was trying to get me out or whether my body was just having enough but I got a cough in August and it kept getting worse and worse, sounded like I was barking, I didn't go to the doctors and it got a lot worse and here is the story.

Wednesday 9th October 2024: I was traveling to work via public transport and typical UK train lines always late so my train from Harrogate to Leeds was running late and my next train there was a 18 minute gap usually but due to the delayed train I didn't have time so ran as fast as I could to get my next train literally getting on just seconds before the door closed. I really struggled to catch my breath, I felt so winded and I know I am out of shape but it did take a while to catch my breath, like a couple of hours which is strange because I know I am fat and unfit but not that bad. I don't like being late, I find it rude but I wanted to make sure I was in on time so it couldn't be a thing my manager moans at even though he was late all of the time. Thankfully got to work on time. When I finally got home at night I just cried, I sobbed and sobbed and because I was like that I started coughing and choking and threw up but because I had barely ate that day it was painful being sick.

Thursday 10th October 2024: I set my alarm extra early because I didn't want to be late or rushing like yesterday so I got the bus at 5am from Harrogate to Leeds and then the train to work. I will be honest when I got ready in the morning I didn't turn on the lights, I brushed my teeth, washed my face in the dark but it was only when I was walking to get the bus I thought my face hurt but as it was pitch black outside I couldn't use my front facing camera to see what was going on. It was only when I got onto the train from Leeds to work that I saw what had happened. My eyes were swallon which is usual if I have been crying but not the bruises and the red eyes. Got to work early, an hour early which meant I could try and hide behind my computer screens but work colleagues were asking if I was okay. Manager said nothing (typical). I was coughing throughout the day.

Sunday 13th October 2024: My face, my eyes were getting worse but I felt okay apart from the annoying cough. What I did find funny was on Saturday I went food shopping with Mum and everybody in Sainsbury's Harrogate was looking at me, looking as if I was fragile and every time I looked at myself I started feeling ill because I looked ill. Anyway I did this damage in October and Mum was nagging me to go get seen medically especially as I had a big week coming up in work with a convention in Birmingham so I took myself off to Harrogate District Hospital to the A&E department, I think I was in there for about two hours at night. They told me they thought it could be Whooping Cough and even though I was vaccinated against it you can still get it, the doctor thought I probably had it months ago and this is just the remnants, potentially a chest infection and Bronchitis, I had bloods and swabs done and was told to book in with my GP but otherwise to try and rest. Found that funny because I couldn't take any sick days, my work was in a bit of a shamble and didn't want an excuse for my manager to get rid of me bare in mind in the 4 years I had been there I had 8 sick days I think and one of them was a day for an operation. As you can see in the picture my eyes are getting redder and my under-eyes are so bruised.

Monday 14th October 2024: Back to work, still getting up to get the bus because I can't risk being late to work and I just want to mention that I was never late to work normally but my manager was being a bit of a d*ck with me, I can say that now because I am not there and if he ever reads this I hope he takes it in and doesn't treat anybody else like this because I prevented three staff members making a case against him with HR for bullying. Anyway this was the first day he asked as he walked past my desk if I was okay but it was brief conversation. How do I know it was this day? I took notes. Now my eyes didn't hurt but my face did, my whole face hurt so bad.

Wednesday 16th October 2024: how I went to the convention, it was a conversation starter but did make me laugh the questions I got 'have you done this for Halloween', 'are those contact lens you have got in', 'have you got makeup in your eye'.

Thursday 31st October 2024: Annoying my eyes weren't as bad for Halloween (joking).

Wednesday 6th November 2024: the cough was still bad but the eyes were better so a GP trip ended up in a hospital trip to get bloods and chest x-ray done. My GP put my on a Salamol CFC-Free Inhaler to help, I was put on steriods and also antibiotics.

Saturday 23rd November 2024: I was sick again after coughing and choking, thankfully my eyes didn't go but I broke the blood vessels or something under the skin.

Monday 16th December 2024: I had been made redundant by this point and went out to the Christmas Market with some work colleagues (manager was not invited), as I was heading into Leeds a delivery bike knocked me and a woman over, didn't stop and see if we were okay, I f*cking hate these bikers weaving in and out on the pavement, he was wearing a snood over his face we couldn't see him but thankfully a staff member at Trinity Boots saw it and helped me and the woman up and took us into the store and helped clean us up. My knees were scuffed, my finger/side of the hand hurt quite bad, my poor Dr. Martens were scuffed.

I can say that my cough was completely gone by January but sadly I got it back in May and still to this day the doctors are investigating what is going on, in 2025 I think I have been for 2 chest xrays and I have a new inhaler but it isn't as bad as last year.