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I'm lucky as I don't have any of the symptoms. But I have an area just below by elbow on the inside of my right arm that has the blisters and is a bit red. They are sore to touch but otherwise I feel fine. The nurse at the doctors said that because of my age they normally don't do anything other than recommend camomile lotion and pain killers if they hurt. She said that in the over 50's and more with OAP's that they do prescribe an antiviral remedy.

From what I read 10 or more days in the norm.

It's odd as I woke up yesterday and there they were so I used antihistamine cream thinking something has bitten me in the night and then this afternoon I cleaned the area with witch hazel and someone said they thought it might be shingles so I went and saw the Nurse who said she thought we were right and printed off loads of info about shingles.

Looks like there are 4 blisters that are scabbing over but they are plenty of others.

I'm not tired ,I'm waking around 6.15 and falling asleep from around 2300. And am still walking up the hills at my normal pace as well as cycling to and from work in about the normal time.

Apparently when the virus enters a nerve you can get the blisters all the way along it. She said it normally enters from the spine near the top of the back and then works it's way along the nerve. The blisters contain the virus so anybody touching them is at risk of the chicken pox virus. And I got Chicken Pox good as a child.

Normally I'm a very fast healer so we'll see how it develops. The redness is roughly the area that the cream was and that was cleaned earlier. In fact it looks better since it was cleaned ,redness wise.

Stress wise can't really think of much. I was expecting to pass the test so wasn't thinking much about it. I did have some nerves before starting the motorbike training as it was the first time in 20 years I'd ridden a bike since my visit to casualty from the crash but they vanished quite quickly when we started the practical stage. I haven't had my bike out so I can't put it down to that so it's a mystery. They just appeared from no where.

It is probably different with different Doctors I reckon. This link says:-



I had moderate to severe pain and also take a preventer inhaler for asthma which suppresses the immune system. Looking at that though, you should take them because it is your arm affected, so I reckon different Doctors have different views on it.

Today I completed the 25KM Waendel Cycle route plus the 10 mile round trip plus about a mile when I missed the route markers and had to do a detour.

That's the good bit ,the bad bit is all the up hill parts ,and there was a lot !.
Add to that the fact that it was quiet breezy and the lack of training this year due to the weather. I was wondering for quite a while if I'd have enough energy in my legs to finish the course let alone the return trip !
But I made it ,my quads are sore and I'm moving a lot slower than normal. I've also been drinking lots of water and stretching and massaging the muscles trying to prevent the inevitable and so far so good.

But this was the hardest thing I've every done and even with proper training I don't think I'd want to do the Sunday route again. The Saturday route is much easier with only two real uphill sections one of which I've never managed to cycle up yet.

Well done larry I hope you don't ache too much.

A nice hot bath has gotton rid of most of the aches ,though my left hip is still sore.
But I'm moving much more freely now.

But by morning I'll know for sure ,as you say hopefully I won't be too sore.

As a followed up on yesterday I was surprised this morning to find that the only ache was still the same one form the left hip but less than yesterday.

The only prove of the hard work my legs were put through was the tightness of my bike leathers this morning as the muscles are still pumped up .I doubt that'll last long. Reminds me of my late teens when I really pushed my old racing cycle beyond it's limits everyday of the week for a few years and was very athletic as a result. Took quite a bit of upgrading in the end to get the bike to hold together as the standard bits would snap very easily especially chains.
But I was a lot younger then. The thought then of going 50+MPH on a dual carriageway didn't trigger the thoughts of how to stop. In reality the brakes would have melted trying to stop completely where as today's technology would cope a lot better so longs as you didn't skid. The dual disc brakes on my mountain bike are very good slowing from 30 MPH with road tyres. Off-road tyres on tarmac and heavy braking don't work too well as you loose grip and having the back-end snaking don't do a lot to slow you down.

Tonight I finished installing Freesat in our house. It's now up and running in 3 rooms and I just need to connect the last cable to where the cable from the big dish used to join and I'll also have a feed in my room.

A MK4 Dish Is the simplest dish I've seen to install.

Bolt plate to wall making sure you know which general direction to need to be pointing. Set the tilt of the dish so that the first small hole on the bracket just clears the bracket on the dish and tighten bolts.
Set the skew on the LNB before fitting (mine was 2). Fit LNB to dish and remember the locking peg.
Look at the spirit level on the LNB bracket and pivot the dish until bubble is central then fit and tighten locking bolts.
All that leaves is to slowly swing the dish until the signal appears. If your using a Freesat box it'll tell you when you have the correct signals. Once you have signals and channels go to the System Info and fine tune the Signal and quality for max. Job done.

I had the receiver outside with a 5 inch LCD monitor to setup which took maybe 5 minutes. Then to removed the test cable from the LNB and cut four runs of cable to what I thought to be the correct lengths taping them to both the dish and the pole and along the cable which allowed passing the cables into the roof a lot easier.

I modified the wall bracket to take a mast clamp but if the wind manages to move the dish I'll screw it to the wall but as I already had a mast on which my motorised dish is fix it seem the best place to mount it.

A little late posting but Last Saturday (3rd) me and my Niece watched Twilight :Eclipse at the local Cinema

Today I woke up feeling a bit sick with nerves as I start my job as a teacher tomorrow morning Feels like no time since I started uni let alone finished it, nervious but so so so excited

Good luck ,I'm sure it'll be great.
What age group are you teaching ?

"nervious" - isn't that fabulous for a teacher haha.

Thanks very much Larry. 6 and 7 year olds, we call them primary 3 but "year 2" in England I believe.

At least at that age they aren't honed on the smell of fear so you'll be fine.

Yeah, have met them and they are lovely. Think it is going to be a good year, I find that P3 is a year where they really come on having taught them at the beginning of a school year and towards the end in the past, they come in quite little but by the end are ready to move on towards the more senior end of the school. Bless them!

ooh good luck Jezi

Today celebrated still being alive after a full week and a day with the kids