Today has been spend under the duvet with a migraine, originally uploaded by kcm76.

This week’s self-portrait: 52 Weeks 9/52 (2008 week 17)

This week’s self-portrait: 52 Weeks 5/52, 2008 week 13.

As I took this standing outside the doctor’s this morning I thought we might have 13 medical things to go with it (mainly for the Flickr “Thirteen Things” group …

1. I’ve never yet broken a bone in my body.
2. I’ve had all the usual childhood illnesses except mumps.
3. I’m short sighted and have worn glasses since my mid-teens.
4. I have type 2 diabetes.
5. I had my appendix out when I was 28.
6. I had glandular fever when I was 32, and had 3 months of a nice hot summer off work.
7. I suffer from hayfever; and with me the allergy really is to some species of grass pollen.
8. I have obstructive sleep apnoea; this means I have to wear a mask at night with gentle air pressure pumped into it to keep my airway from collapsing.
9. I was born with a deformed nail on my right index finger; everyone who noticed it assumed that I had damaged it in an accident. I finally had the nail permanently removed after I did rip it off by accident.
10. When I was a kid of 6 or 7 I would have a week off school every term with a high fever (nothing else, just the fever). No-one knew why, but our old family doctor eventually suggested my parents take me off sugar; so no sweets for years, but no fever either. I still don’t know why it worked or what the underlying cause was.
11. I’ve lost count of the number of crowns I have; it’s at least six. But none caused by an accident; all due to teeth falling apart.
12. I’ve had a cartilage operation on both knees (at different times) and my knees still give me pain. But then apparently I also have the beginnings of arthritis in my knees; not surprising as my father had severely arthritic knees.
13. I suffer from depression; Churchill’s “black dog”. It’s worse in winter as I am slightly afflicted with SAD as well.