As two of my friends end and begin new relationships within days, so did I, kind of...

Friend number one was granted their decree nicae two weeks ago and has found new romance just as the previous is declared over by the courts. Friend number two ended their engagement to the person they were living with for four years on Monday, and is today finally curled up on a couch with the person that they should have been with for almost a decade.

As for me, rather than shift seamlessly from one romance to another (I still need the first romance to do that!), I instead shifted from one illness to another within the space of days. About a month ago, I came down with what was diagnosed as glandular fever. After just over a week, the fever finally broke (about four hours before they were going to admit me to a hospital). Five days later I began to feel unwell again. This time I was shipped straight to hospital. They ran blood tests, and ultrasounds and x-rays, and after forty-eight hours, they discovered that the glandular fever had triggered and autoimmune problem.

Essentially, my immune system was attacking my thyroid gland. My thyroid gland then thought that it was being attacked by some sort of infection (of course it wasn't an infection, it was own immune system), so it produced more hormones to encourage the production of more white blood cells, which of course thought that the infection was my thyroid gland, and so the cycle continued.

So now I'm on medication, and have to be under specialist medical care for the foreseeable future. I've been signed of work until some better blood tests come through, and right now, I should be on holiday in Crete, but have been declared unfit to travel by my doctor.

Other than that, life is peachy. The not going to work, but still getting paid full salary thing is fantastic. As a man of leisure, I have been able to catch up with a lot of old friends that have scattered about the UK. I've redecorated, managed to get some serious headway into my book, and I'm now in the re-drafting process. The poetry side of things has kind of sucked the last few months. I free wrote a bit, but that ended up in the book. We'll see. maybe once I've gotten this book out of my system, I'll get back to being a bard.

Any ways, catch you later.