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Last week, we spent a few days in leafy warwickshire (shakespeare country) and, since we lived in the area about thirty five years ago, took the opportunity to visit some of our old haunts.Acoustic neuroma symptoms forum stratford-on-avon, where we spent many happy hours showing visitors around shakespeare’s town (especially his birthplace, pictured), then on to leamington spa, where I used to work, and a day spent in the city of coventry which, for me, was the highlight of our trip.Acoustic neuroma symptoms forum

Coventry is probably best known for it’s medieval cathedral, which was bombed in november 1940 and left in ruins. At the end of world war II, it was decided to build the new cathedral beside the ruins of the old one as a symbol of hope, peace and reconciliation.Acoustic neuroma symptoms forum unfortunately, the photo I took is too blurry to post, but there are many great images on google if you’d like to check them out.Acoustic neuroma symptoms forum

Another reason for coventry’s fame is the story of lady godiva. According to legend, she was the wife of a powerful tyrant lord who demanded high taxes from the people of coventry.Acoustic neuroma symptoms forum lady godiva asked her husband to stop this tax since she knew it was causing such hardship amongst the people she loved.Acoustic neuroma symptoms forum he allegedly told her that he would do so if she rode naked through coventry.

Lady godiva took him at his word, and with only her long blonde hair covering her naked body she rode through coventry on market day.Acoustic neuroma symptoms forum pious and modest, lady godiva is said to have sent word to the townspeople that they should go inside their homes and not watch as she rode by.Acoustic neuroma symptoms forum because they loved her and knew she was doing it to save them hardship, they complied. Except one young tailor who couldn’t resist looking.Acoustic neuroma symptoms forum he became known as peeping tom and was blinded by heaven for not adhering to lady godiva’s instruction.

You see, I have asthma.Acoustic neuroma symptoms forum it’s been very well controlled until these past few months. I’ve had this long term cough/wheeze thing going on and those, I know, are difficult to debug.Acoustic neuroma symptoms forum then, as winter gave way to spring, it got much worse. To the point where I didn’t want to go out of the house, my cough/wheeze was so bad.Acoustic neuroma symptoms forum I didn’t’ know if it was something infectious or what. Did I have allergies after all these years on planet earth? I honestly have felt like I had some sort of chronic lung or heart disease coming on and it scared me.Acoustic neuroma symptoms forum A lot. (yes, after being retired from the medical field for fifteen years, I still envision worst case scenarios, a byproduct of that line of work.)

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At the end, he believed it was either an asthma exacerbation that needed help or pneumonia (even though my chest xray was normal last month.) for the first thing, a steroid can generally kick start calming things down.Acoustic neuroma symptoms forum for the second, he said two antibiotics would be needed. But, if we did both at the same time, we’d never know which one helped.Acoustic neuroma symptoms forum so I’m on the steroid now, as I write the blog on saturday. Started it 15 hours ago and already I feel better this morning.Acoustic neuroma symptoms forum only coughed once since I got up.

Synaptogenesis…ever heard of it? I hadn’t either until recently. While listening to a podcast on my MP3 player while out walking vivvy, I discovered that synaptogenesis is the formation of new synapses in the brain.Acoustic neuroma symptoms forum these are connecting points that link brain cells, approximately 100 billion of them, and it’s how our brain cells communicate with each other.Acoustic neuroma symptoms forum

Deteriorating synapses are linked to a number of neurodegenerative diseases, but research shows that there are ways to regenerate and increase our synapses.Acoustic neuroma symptoms forum according to the podcast, one of the ways is to change up the way we carry out routine tasks. Fascinated, I tried it out on the walk by stepping over stiles with my right foot instead of the left which I normally do, walking a different direction around a group of trees, and going anti-clockwise around the lake instead of clockwise.Acoustic neuroma symptoms forum to be honest, I hadn’t realised what a creature of habit I’d become 🙂

Well, it got me thinking about other areas of my life, especially writing.Acoustic neuroma symptoms forum I’ve always been a writer who needs a solid block of time during which I know I won’t be disturbed in order to write anything like meaningful prose (!).Acoustic neuroma symptoms forum but in the spirit of trying something new, I decided to give writing sprints and timed writing a go. Many writers have success with this kind of writing, but I never thought it would work for me.Acoustic neuroma symptoms forum

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