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LJ hasn't loaded for me all day, and now I'm fed up and very lonely and bored. With LJ, I have stuff to do and people to talk to. Without it? The internet is all but pointless, and I can't talk to anyone. I can amuse myself for about ten minutes or so and then I need to go away and sigh again and maybe dust something or lie down.

In the meantime, since LJ is apparently working for everybody else in the world except me, this should crosspost so you know why I'm ignoring you until LJ lets me back in. (It came back very briefly twice during the day, so I'm hopeful it will. But I can't report anything because I can't get in to report it.)

:-(

I am now going off to make sugarless scones (it's a thing I do), and try not to panic about it. I have a book. It doesn't seem to be giving me too much of a headache yet, so hey. There's that, I suppose. And I can write a bit maybe if I don't get too depressed about having nowhere to post it ever again. Luckily, my family phoned for five minutes just now before I died of isolation. (Can you do that in only one day? Probably not.)

Also also the doctor's mislabelled my blood test on Thursday and I have to go and give them some more on Monday. (I can't complain; they've never done anything like this before. But i would rather not have my two big outings for the week both being things where people stick needles in me.)

(I may be feeling sorry for myself now. This is what happens when people cruelly take LJ away from me.)

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Ha, your icon is very amusing! It was indeed v restrained of you not to steal it, but as you say a photo is easier to get away with in the long run.

I have every sympathy... I try to remind myself that being ill now is better than being ill just twenty-odd years ago. I'd've gone doolally in short order. Hope the second test yields useful results.

I was ill first twenty years ago, but I was a teen then, and at home and also I just didn't seem to have the issue with reading books that I do this time around. I think it may be partly the concentration (as with everything) but also because I had to read and review and so on for work, and I think it became a little stress-related. It's very odd. Anyway, I'm glad for the internet and LJ! I hope you are doing okay at the moment, too. ♥

(The blood test is just routine for my iron levels. Unfortunately I muddled up which day it is, and now I'm not going till Thurs. Which is annoying, but actually maybe better because too many blood tests in a row never do me any good.)

Concentration is such a bugger with this illness. I can only read in short bites. Which is grim for someone who used to work in a bookshop - but c'est la vie, alas. *fistbump of brainfoggy solidarity*

I hope the blood test doesn't take it out of you too much - and that they don't keep you in the waiting-room too long. Sometimes I think medics forget that the people they're dealing with are ill.

Concentration is such a bugger with this illness. I can only read in short bites. Which is grim for someone who used to work in a bookshop

Oh, tell me about it - I was a librarian! *further fist bumps of solidarity*

And thanks! My doctor's surgery is usually pretty good, especially the nurses who do things like blood tests - they're all v friendly and speedy! I managed to get it down okay yesterday. I just need to remember to be more careful afterwards. ♥