I was sitting in a café late on Friday afternoon talking to my beautiful friend Fiona. I was grumpy though, I hadn’t been sleeping very well and the medication I am taking for one of my various ailments, which you can just summarise as ageing, was making me feel nauseous.

For weeks now I’ve been feeling this low grade nausea which is heightened by stress – did I mention that we are about to put our house on the market? There’s some stress that I added to my nausea right there.

Fiona had mentioned that I looked very pale and because she has a medical background I didn’t take this as an insult. She also tried to scare me into looking after my health better but I just gazed at her glumly and sipped my tea. [Read more…]