A minor miner?

On Monday, after 100 days off, I went back to work. I’m on the north run for two weeks. My ribs were still just a wee bit sore, after falling last Tuesday, but I was managing okay without painkillers, until today! I woke up at half past twelve this morning in agony! I took a couple of painkillers and did manage to drop off again. However, when the alarm went off at half past three, I was still in pain. I start at quarter past five and getting up into the Transit, really wasn’t much fun. I could only just take wee shallow breaths, too.


I managed my three pickups in Fife, one in Arbroath and two in Dundee, before calling the office to tell them I was struggling. It was decided I would do one more pickup, at Bridge of Allan, then head back. The storeman was asked to cover the last five clients in the Bo’ness and Falkirk areas.

I phoned my surgery as soon as I got home and they told me to come straight up. I was seen and examined straight away by the nurse who does my asthma check, then one of the GPs. Apparently, the pain I have had has not been coming from damaged ribs, I have a dose of pleurisy! I have been prescribed some even stronger painkillers and a course of antibiotics, hopefully that will do the trick!

The blip is of the gable end of a building on the High Street in Cowdenbeath, this is the first time the road has been quiet enough for me to stop and get a quick photo.