I’m seeing an Osteopath……Not with a view to marriage or anything, although having someone able to crack and crunch you on demand would be a bit of a plus, No, I’m hoping he can do what the NHS has failed to do so far and help with my muscle discomfort and lack of breath carried over from the Op two years ago. So at the moment I’m feeling well and truly bruised and pounded because it impacts on M.E.

He was honest from the off and said that due to all my ailments I was going to be a challenge…. Challenge?  I don’t know what it is but people have been using that word and my name in the same sentence since I can remember and then they look at me as though I’m a video game they cant wait to get started on, but as long as I don’t get Sonic boomed or Wakka wakka wakkered then I just have to hope that from a health point of view I’m a challenge they can conquer.

For a moment on Wednesday night I thought prime time television was actually about to help raise some much needed sensible M.E awareness. The programme was Surprise Surprise hosted by Holly Willoughby, but it just raised more confusion when a mother said that her daughter had been bitten by ticks at a festival, became very ill, ended up in hospital and diagnosed with M.E.  I found myself sighing heavily before shouting at the TV   “I think you’ll find that’s Lymes disease NOT M.E”  http://www.nhs.uk/conditions/Lyme-disease/Pages/Introduction.aspx

Nothing more was said about the illness so for any viewers watching it would have been  confusing and unclear and only highlights the urgent need for education and  a proper national diagnostic test.

More observations this week while rinsing my coffee cup at the sink. There were two men across the road, one of them was as tall as a skyscraper, and maybe that’s why he couldn’t find any jeans to fit?  They seemed to hover above his knees, or maybe they were denim leg warmers & the over stimulation of morning coffee had exported me trance like back to the 80’s and a scene from Fame?   (Flings arms out to the side and bursts into iconic song) But fair play to his mother on her brand of washing powder, I was almost blinded by his ultra-white underpants as he bent over to get something out of the car.

However, I don’t really have room to mock considering my own fashion faux pas, Ginger afro?  Trouser braces?  Three quarter length PVC shorts worn with Doc Martens?......Worse still, there are actually photographs of all these mishaps and many more ( Note to self: Must get rid of incriminating evidence).

To be honest I was never really interested in the latest clothing craze, I knew mum and dad couldn’t afford it so I just didn’t ask, although I did get a Crombie, it was a black jacket come coat that mods wore, I was so excited at getting one but I wasn’t allowed to go the whole hog and shave my hair off to skinhead proportions as some of my fellow classmates did…and yes, I’m talking about the girls...                           Watford Observer:

But they say everything comes around again if you wait long enough and the latest Doctor Who, actor  Peter Capaldi has indeed brought back some of that style with his Crombie and Doc Martens, I cant help wishing he’d had a skinhead or at least sported a Paul Weller hairdo to complete the look,  but hey, you can’t have everything, and  If this Is  jogging your memory  to your own  dodgy day wear moments? Good, Come share them with me in comments below & let me know I wasn’t the only teenager without a fashion radar.

                               Til Next Week, Stay Blessed

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                                         Stacy XXX