Miserable

Overcast with occasional showers during the day. but heavy rain after dark. I ate a hot cross bun and had some kefir with porridge oats for breakfast. A lingering sour taste on my tongue plus hours of dyspepsia told me that both were overloaded with cow's milk fats. Without a gall bladder they don't assimilate and upset my stomach. In addition the usual meds left me with 'toxic head' right through the day. I walked in the park morning and afternoon but fresh air failed to clear my head. I wonder if extra unassimilated lactose has added to miserable side effects I react badly to?

I had a phone call from someone organising medical checks for stroke victims, offering an appointment at St David's Hospital for what was described as a 'medical MOT'. This may be something requested by the GP surgery or by the consultant I contacted recently. Hopefully it will result in a proper assessment of the impact on me of the meds that are making me poorly. The downside is that it's an 8.30am appointment.

Tonight I wanted to complete the task of editing together the sections I have recorded of the Lent Book 'Retrieving Jesus' to circulate before the Lent group study of the book begins, but was frustrated by losing half the job already done to a Windows 11 file system crash which corrupted the Audacity file I worked on yesterday. I had to identify each sound byte and reconstruct the introduction sequence, bible quote and text of Chapter One rather than re-record fifty minutes worth of the book. It was far more difficult than I realised, with so many calls on short term memory, and took a couple of hours of muddling through, which made me late for bed, extra tired and frustrated and feeling poorly