@anongoodnurse no - it's all good. My view is that it's lovely to know folks care, but I agree with you - diagnosis over internet is fraught with danger as context and clarity around everything are difficult. I'm glad we don't allow medical questions here - just too much can go wrong

@anongoodnurse Oh dear. I do worry about my memory and intelligence. Having always been smart, covid knocked me for a loop - so do daily mental puzzles to see how I'm faring

@anongoodnurse When I had labyrinthitis first, I did think it was a stroke. It was pretty much instant, while I was driving, and I only just got the car up onto the side of the road before realising I couldn't sit upright, or use my phone, or anything. Really shook me up

Thankfully right now, I'm healthy aside from still a fair amount of fatigue, little bit of mental fuzziness and some breathing issues (all from covid) but they are improving every week.

I will find that - bawdy works

(also, bawdy is one of those words that definitely isn't used enough these days)

Just googled Epley and BPPV - that's quite bizarre

Especially bizarre as one of my team, in the last half an hour or so, has started having BPPV symptoms. He has had it before so knows about Epley.

@RoryAlsop You're at a fairly high risk for BPPV. Remember when it hits to look up the Epley maneuvers and use them. It's downright astonishing! This is easy to be dubious of, but every medical problem I've ever had (and I've had very many), I'm grateful for. Each one has given me much more empathy and understanding for patients going through the same thing.

I have bad genes. My mother had four separate cancers (none benign). Four! And the last one killed her at 56. She also had Osler Weber Rendu, an autosomal dominant, so all of us kids, and probably my kids, too, have it. Luckily the penetrance is quite variable. My mom had life-threatening GI bleeds from it; me? No bleeds yet and none expected. That's the tip of the iceberg. But I'm what we sometimes call the "well ill"; ill by definition but we're living well.

If there's a poster child for hope in living well with (diseases x, y, z, and a bunch more), I'm it.

@RoryAlsop When you start with such a high level as yours, for a long time you will be the only one who realizes the losses, if that's any consolation. I hope it is.

Enough medicine. I think you would really like The Great. It's a comedy, but it's so well written (and acted) that I cried through the last two episodes of season 2. It's as good as Penny Dreadful or (another favorite) Killing Eve. Shows that good don't come along often. If you have any recommendations for me, I'm all ears.

@anongoodnurse Claire and I are going through Outlander - nearly finished series 2 (of 5) - I thought lack of historical accuracy would annoy me, but they have woven the drama around history incredibly well. I'd recommend it

@RoryAlsop I've finished Outlander. i loved it initially (who wouldn't?), but towards the end, thought it would be better named Outlandish. I was going to comment on lack of historical accuracy as well, but that would give something of it away.

I'm terrible! I asked for a recommendation, and this is my response. I'm very sorry.