marnanel @marnanel@queer.party

The hospital will be checking me regularly in case I pick up a cold or something, which could do me quite a bit of damage. "Immunocompromised" is fun to say, but not much fun to be.

This treatment isn't for cosmetic reasons: I love my skin and I don't care what people think of it. This is happening because psoriasis is an autoimmune disease: it puts a heavy load on my immune system, causing my constant exhaustion, and possibly also depression.

Anyway, here's my lovely tummy.

Today I had a chest X-ray and about six vials of blood taken. They're putting me on biologics.

Biologics are the last line of attack for psoriasis, after the topical treatments, phototherapy, and systemics I've been through in the last few years. They will knacker my immune system, so they needed to test my blood for lots of viruses.

/thread

Another attempt at a live storytelling video. This is a story by Frank Muir. Yantantessera the cat makes an appearance.

https://youtu.be/oAlecdDIFt0

Oscars 2019: Queen to perform...

>
and through the years, as every ship went down,
I'd gather up the sailors to my breast
and hoping you'd return to me and drown
I'd seek your face alone amongst the rest;
so sadly should I spend my lonely foam
until the rivers washed your ashes home.

If I'd been born the sea, then I suppose
though ages might have ended since I rolled
my breakers round the sand beneath your toes
I'd still remember how it felt to hold
your body, how my ripples on your skin
delighted you; I'd dream of you inside
my depths, of how you washed me from within
each hour I held you close in love and tide;
>

I would like to buy a season ticket, please.

Autumn for preference, but spring would do.

New legislation for "serious shortage protocols":

"The provision, part of the contingency planning for a possible no-deal #Brexit, allows pharmacists to swap drugs, reduce quantity or change dosage, overruling GP prescriptions."

https://www.pharmacy.biz/regulation-introducing-serious-shortage-protocol-tabled/

Update: Now that the GP has set my title to Mx, it seems to have caused the pharmacist to decide I'm a rabbi.

Christianity, implicit blood

David's Bookshop is part of what made me. I spent so many hours browsing here as a child and a teenager. This is part of the tables outside, with the second-hand books. Most of them cost £2 or less; many are 50p. I foresee some heavy bags.

Random quiz question:

Who was the most recent UK prime minister to have attended Cambridge University?