Stuart Briggs

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

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  • Hats, socks and scarves, colours we love

    Colours bring a smile to so many folks, nothing wrong with singular dull colours but I just love getting the crazy and daft colours to show personality is within.


    By far the biggest hat I have ever had the pleasure in wearing, when walking around for some reason I do see folks smiling at me, I just can not understand it!


    Absolutely the brightest hat I have ever worn, terrific, I will get more over time, these two are LOUDelephant, you should check them out, fantastically warm too, possibly the best natural wool hats available are LOUDelephant, 50 pence per hat also goes to charity.


    A few more socks here, all are about 85% cotton, this seems to help with my feet, synthetics can sometimes seem to be a problem, hence all the new clothes especially for work, mind you, some of the smiles I get could be down to my socks!

  • Name that tune

    Could someone please put me out of my thoughts of that I will never find out, today at the doctors, and for the third time running, this tune came on, none of the receptionists know what it is, they even said after my last visit the doctor came out to ask as I also asked him!!!

    What is this tune

    Its a little rough as it is recorded on my Orange Rio, but the best times to turn it up are between 30 – 41 seconds, someone must know the tune!? I really do need a better phone now! Please someone put this misery to the opposite and make my day! I went to the doctors as unfortunately this morning I still did not feel too good after the Alendronic acid yesterday, it wont happen again and they prescribed me some stuff to help settle my stomach during the day.


    We are to marshall my tummy! I really am doing everything and anything possible to ensure I can work well.

  • Alendronic acid

    The worse meds for me seem to be the alendronic acid tablets, I used to take them on a Wednesday but since starting work I changed them to Saturdays, simply because, after I have taken them I can feel pretty rough for too long, thankfully they are just one per week, for those who do not know they are taken first thing with about 500ml of water, and then I must remain upright for a least half an hour, problem being, I forgot on Saturday morning so took it this morning, yes felt quite rough and bed soon, its early but that is certainly not a problem, this sarcoid rests as much as possible.


    A little while ago I contacted my consultant about something that was beginning to get too embarrassing, as you can see he reviewed my latest scan, thankfully its not the sarcoid, they reckon the prednisolone can cause gastric problems, but I feel its more to do with the alendronic acid.

    Last week I had bacon butties on four mornings, after each time I got some stomach pains, but the morning I had no bacon butty I felt ok, conclusion, I have decided to try something different in the mornings, as I can now sort of afford to do, but it might not be as tasty!


    I am terrible with cereal in a morning, in fact any form of early morning breakfast, I aim on taking two breakfast bars with me and probably eat them on the train, its claimed a couple of these cereal breakfast bars in the morning can be really good for you, I will try, even after the bacon butty I felt sweats coming on, so it might be weekend only now!


    I’m also going to have one of these Actimel drinks each morning, the overall target is to settle my insides for the working day ahead.

    So I need to get appropriate treatment to counter a drug that counters another drug… Proper glad of works disabled toilet, its quiet and I certainly do not feel that embarrassing thought of someone listening to a hideous fart and ‘stuff’ ha…

  • Socks, hats and scarves, we love colours

    For now I guess it is to keep this brief, but then what is that, these vary, though not briefs – thongs, or, hmmm, breath deeply…?


    These really do appear my favourite, but then we pull others over our feet and…

    What are your best thoughts for lots of colour on the feet? go get them, loving it, and I think folks like us can do the trick!

  • Baildon live at the lounge jam night

    What a great night we had, myself, my eldest son Jacob and his bands drummer Sam, three songs played in the form of; Dust my broom, Johnny be goode, and Alright now, though I guess my lack of understanding on that thee five string bass threw me somewhat! a lower ‘B’ string, jeez I kept wanting to play it as the ‘E’ string! great laughs, good fun and a joy to play with those guys – Sam’s first time!

  • Jeans for straight men!

    I noticed this advertisement on the internet the other day, found it quite amusing, I guess gay men are not allowed to purchase them?!


    And so I did not order them, oh, but I am straight, for now ha!

  • Czech military coat arrived!

    And what do we have here, yes they are advised as being some of the warmest jackets around, sarcoidosis is a funny one, I can even sweat something silly when im actually cold.


    Czech military coats have a fine lining and coller, both can also be removed individually, so it could well be an all year round jacket, I felt the cold last year, and I should not this year, it could also be my new working dress-code with my new job, ha…


    More clothings are still being looked into, especially 100% cotton long sleeve shirts and also trousers, try best possible to keep those synthetics off of my skin?

  • Andrew Marr’s history of the world

    One of the best programs I have viewed in a little while, very interesting episodes, and I’m looking forward to the others, only seen the first two for now. So many of us do think we know quite abit of history, yet we still learn. I thought the marathon was one runner in ancient Greece that took a message 26 miles, and finally I find out, it were the citizens army of Athens, with Plataea aiding, they had defeated the Persians, who in turn set sail to conquer Athens, and so the army had to run the 26 miles back to Athens, and in turn the Persians did a runner, or turned and sailed away.

  • The glorious British 2012 summer

    Just a little reminder here of that just gone summer, do you remember it? no? nor do I! mind you, we had a superb week in March, in-fact I did this song about sarcoidosis back then by the river Wharfe, if you viewed it then do you remember? no? oh those were the days of March 2012!


    This must be the only song in the world about sarcoidosis, it would be great if we got all the sarcoid affected folks to have a listen, affected means as said, you don’t need it to be involved…?

    Ah, yes, that reminder of the great British summertime, a raincoat, a camera, erm…


    That video is pretty much near to where im pointing in this video, during the floods!


    Jeez, my hair, I still have it, but its in a washing detergent box! in-case you missed the event you best check some self clipper attacking here, and just below is the result, hmmm, to keep or not to weep, that is my question, ah yes…

    Space…

    Space, just so you can not view it straight away…

    More space…

    Space is so required, one turn of that wheel in the middle of your mouse…

    Almost there…

    And here you see it…

    Thats about a full turn of that mouse wheel!

    No, that were about 3/4…

    This is about 7/8…

    And so…

    The hair…

  • Felix Baumgartner jumps from edge of space

    How to jump from the edge of space. Wow, just watched that jump from the edge of space, Felix you top dude, when he were stood on the edge of the capsule I almost got motion sickness watching it!!! Top marks, brilliant, and how insane some folks are eh.

    Watch the jump here.

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