Stuart Briggs

Living with sarcoidosis, the good, the bad, and lots of in between.

Author: Stuart

  • Interview at work

    Hmmm, researched, revised, rehearsed, and readied myself, thinking I have lost my spark for interviews to progress within? used to be terrific. Supposing the last few rough years can count as being pretty hard, then a massive positive of gaining employment through the Leeds branch of Remploy, then further positives of the sarcoid going into remission and slowly getting off the ‘drugs’ allowed me to think about progressing in work.

    Over the years I have always advanced within my employment, a little annoyed at myself why I now mess up, the first interview I knew I weren’t good and that I was just happy to get it, this interview I did what I used to do as it would be my ideal, half in the office and half on site, the work itself I know im capable of, but, I struggled to get answers out – that I knew – and so…

    In a nut shell, I enjoy what im doing, I work hard, I like the whole group, its just that, in a few months my tax credits will drop, and then, its going to be a proper struggle, a proper struggle brings worry, worry can bring on the anxiety, which in turn can eventually cause my sarcoid to raise its ‘shit’ head, I just need to live and not survive, but it might all be in my mind or am I really a shadow of my former self, rejected?

    Shadow

     

  • Ankle dots

    Most of us sarcoids know we can have skin problems, especially the red ankle blemishes that can reach pretty near to the knees. Just lately I have got dots appearing on my ankles, these dots are just where the acupuncture needles were stabbed into my tendinitis ankles, they tried but it just didn’t work.

    I have gone off the subject a little, its very unusual for me to go on tangents but it can happen, in fact if you can talk in tangents it is possibly to hold many in flesh person conversations at the same time, not online as that’s easy, sometimes I think that talking in tangents is just a phenomena that folks are trying to use just to make them appear confusing, therefore attractive to other souls who might need away out of being confused, you know the type…

  • Sinkhole facts in the UK

    While so many folks are harping on about ‘fracking’ then they should remember how many earth tremors are caused by subterranean (or whatever) mining, and hmmm, more later I guess, but some very new news is here about sink holes in Yorkshire, follow this link to find some unusual photos of the phenomena.

  • And finally out properly on the new bike

    Back in April I got my Bianchi bike through the cycle to work scheme, and, well its in the following photos, was I lazy or simply procrastinating, yes I know, its the latest buzz word but, we all do it, don’t we? let me take some time out to try see if we all do, I will sort it later? oh, the bike ride…

    1 Finishing kits
    I got all the finishing kits back in May, and that’s where they stayed for a while.

    2 Bike ready
    Thinking this cordless sigma computer would be difficult to fit I left it until the last kit for me to fit, how wrong, proper easy and with nice big digits too!

    3 Under pressure
    Feeling under pressure, my own fault as I threatened through Facebook to go for a ride, and erm, I just couldn’t get out of it after a friend give me some nice stick…

    4 Yes I went
    Yes its really me, in fact, I felt like a fully unfit cyclist rather than a sarcoid struggling to breath, very happy to have put myself under pressure!

  • I love thunderstorms

    In the Wharfe valley at the old lane bus stop, huge rain fall and thunder, something about rain on an umbrella, that sound, being dry, listening to thunder, don’t you just love it? Enormous therapy for an awful lot of folks, almost as good as the bubble wrap therapy here!

  • A song

    Well, this song is titled ‘Txts’ in a nutshell.  I met someone on 13th August 2005 at the Blues Bar Harrogate, a stag night, but erm, and whatever else, we met a few times yet communicated daily, this song I wrote early 2006 based on txts that she sent.  I played it down the phone and we never met again, ‘Stu, your voice, the words, its just so’ tears, upset, and the phone went off, a few txts exchanged which basically stated she had gone back to the ‘ex’ and if her stories were correct – no real reason why not – then she met folks who abused her mentally and physically…

    I still think of Elaine but I probably got it all wrong, the ending riff says it all…

    3. TXTs

    Bright side of the Briggs

  • Birthday time for me

    Ok, I have been telling lots about my 40th today, erm, but is it really my 40th? hmmm… life begins at the new 40th, which is 50, yet im most certainly not 50! keep guessing folks…

  • Progression

    A few types of this are available in my land of, but, yesterday was an internal interview for a ‘planning’ type position within my company, thoughts are that I might have been too informal, but, most questions were based on the 5Cs, hmmm, I can certainly lecture on that! Fingers crossed eh…

    Oh, progression, today I had a bone scan, just to see how much the Prednisolone has messed them up, yet it must be remembered, exercise that osteoporosis, exercise sarcoidosis, exercise that there mind.

  • I’v finally finished my Bianchi bike finishing kit

    Well, after three months I have finally put the finishing items and equipment onto my 2013 Bianchi C2C Via Nirone, next stage is to get out on it and tell you what I think, yes a proper review, in fact I have so much to review in my home I will start a new page, onwards, upwards and not sideways or downwards…

    Bike ready

  • Good look to the royal couple

    No the spelling is bang on, but really I offer them good luck for the future Queeny, erm, Queen, I’m sure they will have a very nice cake and eat it, just where would you start to slice it?

    Birth

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