Author: ramblastar

I can't quite believe it's six months since my diagnosis but boy have I learnt a lot. I was obviously quite naive in thinking it wouldn't change things too much. That I could still eat what I wanted just in moderation or not too close together. Or that I could keep on pushing myself through … Continue reading Six months on

My decision to stop exercising for a while was pretty timely in the end because the next day just changing the bed took it out of me and I had to get Alan to help. My breathing has been really laboured and I've really not felt like doing much and in a way luckily with … Continue reading As if I needed a reminder!

Felt really ill after Fridays run so made the difficult decision to not run for a while to give this pancreatic flare up time to go away but thought I'd do Sunday just to complete the week. So I only ended up running better than I've done for a while and only had difficulty with … Continue reading Decision made!

After an uncomfortable start to the New Year being downstairs as in alot of pain and hard to breathe when led down decided to try and make more of an effort with my diet. To that end downloaded the My plate app and have been logging everything. I know it's only a rough guide but … Continue reading NY Resolution

Well Christmas has been and gone and the first since my diagnosis and what I've learnt about myself is I'm pretty rubbish at giving into temptation if it's there. Was given some fancy biscuits and chocolates which given the fat content I shouldn't have eaten but as they were there I felt compelled to eat … Continue reading 1st Christmas – wasn’t so bad

A weird thing to ask you might say and surely I should know but I don't for sure. I was just told my pancreas was inflamed, to not drink alcohol and to reduce fats and if pain gets worse go to the hospital. Touch wood I've never been that bad but even googling this is … Continue reading Am I acute or chronic???

So last week I've thought a new start went for a run yesterday and it went well I struggled at the beginning with discomfort but soon got into a rhythm and felt it went well considering. I've made some Swiss chard soup which is better than I thought and I had that for tea last … Continue reading Trying very trying

Been a difficult few days fell off the wagon so to speak which was extremely naughty but felt I couldn't help myself and didn't know why. Even tried some of this year's homemade wine. The first sip of alcohol since probably July and wished I hadn't. If I'm brutally honest with myself I know I … Continue reading What is normal?

Haven't been doing HIIT or yoga this week and only managed to get a quick 5k in between the rain storms but felt good when we got back albeit a bit shaky. Now it's the early hours of the morning and I've given up trying to sleep in bed as feeling really nauseous every time … Continue reading Nauseous

I definitely find even with blogging as in life in general I tend to make light of everything how I'm feeling etc and I try and be upbeat fill my blogs with cartoon images etc but that doesn't mean I don't have down days where things get on top of me for seemingly no reason … Continue reading Feeling despondent 😕