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12 years 7 months ago #36531 by jeffrey71
Replied by jeffrey71 on topic Fear of Flying
Ash,

Keep on the program! It seems like you have really improved in the last few months! You sound much happier and that makes me smile!

I want to come to England in a year or two and do a triathlon there, just to say that I done one in Europe! LOL I have been looking at one of the London sprint distance ones in July.

Our medicine here in the colonies can be quite expensive even with good insurance. But we do have pretty good health care. The people here have really helped me make good sound decisions with my health care and the money that I spend on it.

Are you working now or going to university? Has your ITP made you change any of your life plans?
I have not let it stop me at all, but someday it may, but it will not be today or tomorrow!

Jeffrey

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12 years 7 months ago #36563 by ashybobashy
Replied by ashybobashy on topic Fear of Flying
Thank you, I sure will do my best. :)

Yes you should come to London. I was once meant to do a race for life thing, but the dates were clashing with something else. To be fair, it's not really a race, you can walk it and its a charity event. I must do that sometime though. London always has those racing things, you should look the London marathon it looks like fun. I'm not into running but I walk everywhere fast lol.

Currently I'm home cos I'm needed here in ireland but I'm possibly going back to London at a later date. I miss it, there is so much to do there. I was working in optics but I'm thinking of going back to university. I may do a course in creative writing and arts, it is a four year course though and I'm gonna see if I can do a shorter one. I love writing and I'm actually working on a book (top secret lol) but its fantasy. Sort of in the same vein as, Harry potter. Well, not exact same but along those lines. It takes a lot of work and I also have a blog but that is just all my opinions really haha. One day you may see my books on the shelves ;)
I think I would rather pay proper health care then the health care we have here. Only reason is although its free, you wait months to get this scan, that scan and I have being thinking of going private. It costs but you get what you want pretty much straight away and it's no way near as expensive as US. The only time itp really affected my life is when it came back last year. This episode was much longer then other times. And when I had low platelets I was hospitalised here. But in London they expect you to keep working and live life. So ya, only when I had to work and my platelets were at 14, it caused me severe anxiety. Once it started going up I was more calm but yes it has caused me to want to not do much. But I did work through it and went to work. See my platelets don't seem to stay down longterm. It's in episodes. So I get a cold. It plummets to very low but then (except for last year where it stayed down 40s) it goes back up to the 100s 200s. So my life was rarely affected.

You have such a great attitude. My attitude is more pessimistic haha. I wouldn't say totally but I'm a worrier, like all the time even when I'm not sick, il worry about getting sick or stupid stuff. But I need t change my attitude because worrying causes stress. Stress causes illness and so on and so forth... So I shall take a leaf out of your book, Jeffrey. Can I ask, do you have low platelets right now? And do they always stay down? Lovely to chat :)

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