how is it possible that a week has passed already? it seems like i just turned around for one second and a whole week slipped past me. sneaky, those weeks. what happened this week?

1. Our new couch was delivered. We celebrated with a bottle of tequila and a game of cards.

2. I went to the doctor a while ago complaining of mysterious joint pain, and she sent me for some blood tests. This week I went back to get the test results. Most of the results hadn’t come back from the hospital yet, so my doctor couldn’t shed any light on the joint pain. However, when she had requested my blood tests she also had my rubella immunity tested. I didn’t request this at all, but she assumed that since I was a married woman of childbearing age who had recently come off the birth control pill that I was likely to be thinking about getting pregnant soon (fair enough, i suppose, although i’m glad to say that my rational brain has returned and the baby crazies have dissapated somewhat.)

Anyway, the rubella test came back showing that i had a lowered immunity, and my doctor suggested I come back in three weeks when the rest of my tests were done to have another rubella shot. I’m a bit suspicious of this, not entirely certain it’s necessary, and a bit freaked out by stuff like this…

“This is the first instance that I have ever come across of a true double-blind study of any vaccine. They have actually used a true placebo rather than another vaccine or a vaccine adjuvant. This Dr. Tingle has been investigating the rubella vaccine for many years. I’ve read some of his earlier studies where he found that 1/3 of the cases of rheumatoid arthritis he saw at the hospital showed the involvement of live rubella virus . Perhaps this is one of the reasons for the explosion in juvenile arthritis. Especially when the package insert itself says that up to 23% of those who get this vaccine will develop arthritis or arthralgia – and a percentage of them will be chronic.”

Great. so I already have chronic joint pain which I suspect is rheumatoid arthritis, and when I come in to the doctor to have it investigated she suggests I have another vaccination which is likely to further aggravate my arthritis symptoms. not to mention the link between re-vaccination and autism in children. Scary stuff. I can’t quite figure out if i’m being paranoid and believing too much of what I read on the internet, or whether vaccines are really just semi-dangerous products being pushed on the public by huge pharmaceutical corporations without enough testing and safety studies being done.

3. Louis dissappeared for a day and a half. I’m convinced this cat has a second home somewhere nearby, where they let him come in and sleep by the fire, give him saucers of milk and play fun games with him. It’s obviously a classic cat trick, enough so that the simpsons have immortalised it with a recent episode where snowball does the same thing. “Snowball! How could you? You toyed with my heart like it was a toy heart!” Classic.

4. The roof got fixed. Hooray! we just did the intelligent thing, called a professional roofer and got the job done, then told the landlord and got him to send on a cheque to the roofers. Sorted.

5. I went driving again, on the road and everything. And Tom only had to grab the steering wheel twice to prevent me from driving the car up over the curb. I’ll be an expert in no time.

We’re off to england for a few days next week, visiting the young and the old and the family we don’t get to see very often. I’m looking forward to it – a few days off work, playing with a new nephew, and some shopping and sightseeing in London…

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