Weds 3rd January. And todays problem is.........

Well, would you credit it - my stomach problems started to come back, maybe as a result of the stress attack yesterday?

For the first time in 18 months, food got stuck in my windpipe again after swollowing. This is what happens when you get a STRICTURE. Basically, the stomach makes an incredible amount
of acid durig a stress attack (part of the flight or flee instinctive response), and over time, this acid comes up the throat, burning the skin on it's way up. This burnt skin then scars.

Because the acid keeps coming up from the stomach, it scars the scar, so, eventually, the scar can grow out into the windpipe, blocking it. This blockage is called a stricture. This is the blockage that food gets stuck on. The rest of the incident is painful, and until the blockage clears itself - either up or down, pain ensues. Sometimes it clears in minutes, other times, it can take hours.

My St John's wort tablets have now run out, so it's back to the Tesco version for a couple of weeks or so - a mimimal amount of the plant has got to be better than none at all hasn't it?

Started to reformat my new hard drive today. No work for the business again, except that I managed to cover about 4 hours on my new web site through an hectic nightshift in which I had people coming in and out all night, and I dealt with a phonecall from the Divisional Officer of
a fire brigade at 1am this morning, helping sort out a "major incident"- his words, not mine, in which I had to locate several data sheets for some chemicals they'd found involved in the incident.

No advertising today, no sales. Total daily earnings today: £96.00
Shortfall on target: £41.36
Yearly Shortfall to date: £125.44