Be Excellent To Each Other

Nay: felt sick for most of the day

Yay: ate the bacon I put on the turkey to keep it from drying out and felt much better.

(Yes I cook my turkey the day before Christmas, what if it!)

After several more blood tests, the ultrasound mentioned above, an MRI and then a fibroscan I got a letter from the gastroenterologist saying everything looks fine and that my liver function tests have returned to normal. Which is good to know but also has me thinking WTF was that all about then?

How weird. Maybe you had a virus or something that you’ve since fought off?

Great news, though.

Thanks, Mimz. Well this is the weird thing as it's shown up in tests this year, five years ago and like eight years ago. Super strange!

Oh, so it’s recurrent? Oh, that is really strange.

I wonder if you struggle to process something in particular.

It must be something. On the drink side of things I don't drink alcohol at all and aside from the occasional caffeine-free Pepsi Max I only drink peppermint tea or water. I'm going to ignore it until my liver packs in.

My brother's just had a brief stint in hospital with an infection of some sort that resulted in abnormal numbers as far as his liver infection markers went.

They don't know what it was despite doing a broadly similar suite of tests to what you've just described.

Nay: My Samsung flip phone broke after about 10 months (the screen died - it started in the middle, along the crease, and then quickly radiated outwards from there). Annoying, as my previous flip phone lasted for over 3 years

Yay: Lady T has an old iphone 11 Pro I can use

Yay: the telco said they will take a look at the broken phone but I have to take it in to a store.

Nay: there's no local store

Yay: We went into the city this weekend for a mini-break and to see the 'Vivid Sydney' light show, so I took the borken phone to a shop on Sunday.

Nay: The shop was hard to find in the stupid shopping centre under the sky scrapers. It was also slow in there and the person helping me had to keep asking for help, but I remained patient as she was trying.

Yay: I received a new phone on Wednesday morning (that was quick) all under warranty - I'm not sure if the phone I received is a brand-spanker or a refurb but that doesn't really bother me, as it works.

Nay: I think I preferred using the old iphone; so I am now stuck paying off an expensive-ish flip phone over the next 2-ish years, that I realise I don't really want to use anyway.