Halloween is not so far away but that's the least of my worries

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Halloween is in about a month and its a big deal where I live. Not as big a deal as it is in America, but compared to other places in the UK it is.

We have a parade on halloween night every year in the city centre. This shot is from one of those parades many years ago (I don't often get to go to it as i work most halloweens).

This is a do-over

Now, this is the second time I am writing this post. I initially wrote it on friday afternoon and scheduled it through steempeak whilst singing its praises because I was supposed to be away travelling this weekend. Unfortunately my trip got cancelled due to illness. It is the second trip in a row to london that I have had to cancel this year because I have been to ill to travel. So the fact that steempeak failed to post this post as it was meant to isn't so bad as I am home and able to re-write it.. though now the text of this post is me whining about being sick again.

Another health scare?

Its very strange because the doctors can't seem to tell me what is wrong with me and they also don't seem to concerned with finding out! I guess my symptoms are just too generic? They just keep saying.. oh you have a viral infection or some such nonesense.. and there is nothing you can do about that except maybe ride it out.

Well there is one thing I will be doing. I am changing my lifestyle and I started the change this weekend. I'm not drinking anymore ... for a while anyway. I used to drink half a bottle of wine a night on a regular basis .. sometimes more. I am going to bed earlier now.. I used to average a 1:30am bedtime with a 7am wakeup for work.. Now its a 10pm bedtime. I'm also making improvements to my diet, more vegetables and such in my meals and no more skipping meals because 'im too busy to eat'.

I was speaking to my sister about it and she suggested I take time off work for a while to get myself sorted out. I don't know how things work at her company but I don't think I can just go to my boss and say, "i'd like to take a couple months off work to figure out my health problems thanks." Though maybe that's precisely what I should do.. the only problem is that it would no doubt be unpaid leave, and my steemit income is nowhere near where I need it to be to do that!

This whole experience has given me some choice words to express my disdain at the medical system in the UK, but the reality is that its still free healthcare and without it I would have nothing!

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