Something….

Been meaning to write something here for days, but somehow the urge stops when I actually sit down to do it.
Anyway, my health is both better and worse. I’ve been off the Ibuprofen for three weeks now and I’m feeling quite a lot better. I actually walked back from the village shop this morning without having to stop for breath or even go especially slowly up the hill. Mind you, I’d got a lift into the village instead of walking both ways, but I was still pleasantly surprised at my energy and stamina. I’m now wondering if the Iboprufen (which I’d been taking daily without a break for around five years) mght have been responsible for a large part of my tiredness and breathlessness.
I’m sleeping rather better too. My knees seem to have stopped aching at night, although that might be down to the warm weather; we’ll see what happens this winter.
However, the tendonitis in my shoulders has got steadily worse. I’m now having difficulty doing simple actions like dressing myself and brushing my hair, because my upper arms are just too stiff and painful to go anywhere behind me. The constant aching in my shoulders now mean that I’m losing that improvement in sleep I mentioned, and sliding back to spending two or three hours a night gazing vacantly at nighttime TV.
I’ve been booked in for more physiotherapy (even though the last lot didn’t do any good at all), and I’m swallowing as much paracetamol as is safe. Otherwise, I just have to wait – apparently, this is a self-curing condition. In most cases…..