As I suspected, I ended up quite ill yesterday evening/night. I had to take my inhaler early and no really obvious benefit from it although my peak flow was still goodish. But my lungs felt like they were being strangled and were sore internally (pollen inflammation of course). I went to bed, but knew I wouldn't sleep and I was still awake at midnight so I came downstairs and took first the capsules which line your stomach in advance of the steroids. I had to wait half an hour to eat, and then I had a bowl of dry cereal and then 8 Prednisolone and after a couple of hours I was feeling easier and came back to bed, but it was still a while before I got to sleep.
This morning I felt tired of course, and breathing still compromised - I was so cross at having to take the steroids as only 3 days ago I had an improved and BEST EVER (for MANY years anyway) peak flow of 550, which I put down to my low histamine diet and being careful not to go outside too much. I guess that selling at one boot sale and buying (early) at another meant that I got a double whammy of pollen two days running and my histamine "bucket" overfilled.
I watched some tv programmes I'd recorded and sewed some of the hexagons from the car boot quilt, then Keith and I went down to Llansteffan for some sea air. The tide was way out.
I couldn't work out if the golden strip was a spit of yellow sand or the sunlight on shallow water. Pretty anyway.
Slightly blurry photo looking towards the very very end of Pendine beach.
Bright Blue Jellyfish (porpita porpita) - there were lots of them on the beach, but not as many as Saturday when Tam was down there - she said there were masses then, but I guess the tide has recycled a few.
Wind-combed bushes - too high up to identify.
Navelwort flowers high up on the cliffs.
Wanna-be cave.
Clouds were gathering but no rain. Pembrey is the flat dark humpy line mid photo and you can just make out the Rhosilli Downs behind them. Hills beyond Ferryside to the mid left.
A wee rock pool with just a dead crab for company.
Finally a rockin Robin!!
Health update, Wednesday lunchtime. Firing on all cylinders again now (SO much energy I could climb Pen y Fan!!) My breathing is free again now and my peak flow is back to that magical high of 550 - which it hit for the first time in memory last Friday. I am starting with trying Kefir now, to balance my gut flora, as there are several vital ones which are totally absent from being on anti-biotics for 3 years to treat recurrant chest infections (stupid GP didn't bother to test sputum to see which infection it was). I am hoping that when the imbalances are sorted out, my "leaky gut" will be too, and histamines will be more controlled. We shall see.
