Pituitary Ademoaner

It's been over six months now since my last bout of brain surgery. Time has certainly flown! The first two months after surgery are pret...

I've always had a problem with the phrase "caught like a rat in a trap". I feel it could be improved upon. Rats are smart. Rat...

Had my first bout of post-lanreotide hypoglycaemia today. It's silly, you'd really think I would be used to handling it by now but i...

This is the third part of the story about my overnight stay in the hospital's research department, having lots of tests to look at the e...

 I turned up at the hospital at 2pm on Tuesday and met up with the endocrinologist who's been in charge of arranging the series of tests...

In relation to last night's post: Panic over! Turns out the darn thing is completely waterproof after all and I should have just left it...

Another hilarious hospital moment: so on Friday I was heading to London for a friend's wedding (congratulations Mrs X!). The wedding was...

Subtitle: You have nothing to lose but your goitres! So here's the strange thing: I have a TSHoma - a pituitary tumour which secretes ...

I finally had a phone call from the hospital on Monday. I was offered a timeslot for my overnight stay and all the various tests they want t...

Hello! Here is another short post - I know, I know, I'm a reprobate. Obviously what the internet really needs is another one of my long ...

Now, as you may or may not have noticed, I am of the female persuasion . And one of the irritating things about this is that, when you get a...

My rate of posting has dropped slightly recently, down from those heady days in November when I was continually finding out new facts about ...

When I was a very small child, a combination of my bad hearing and an obsession with ponies meant that I thought the classic Yes song Owner...

I have set this post to appear online at precisely 11.11am on the 11/11/11. If I could define it down to the second, believe me I would. Bec...

In the ladies bathroom* at my place of work, a minor change was recently wrought when the former hand-drier/paper towel dispenser combo were...

Back in the mists of a misspent youth (or rather, a misspent gap year ) I used to work for a large yet mysteriously anonymous organisation i...