Susan Dougill

Today's painting. The original was a video I followed from Andrea Nelson but I decided to update it to my style

@cfs_jo They could be made into things. I am sure some hobbiest artist could use them

I’ve found a box of overhead projector acetates. Blast from the past! Wonder if they have any other uses?

@kirstler31 Yes I have them on audiobooks.

@SusanD1408 I do have a gallbladder. I remember u reacted terribke 😞. Nope I haven’t. I could look For audiobook as can’t read. I could accept being in bed etc if I didn’t feel like I was dying pretty much constantly. I just want to turn this feeling down and have something for pain.

My inflammation markers are very low based on my cytokine results. My vascular markers are high. Am I right in thinking this means microdosing GLP-1 could be the wrong route for me? I was considering it but then remembered my results…#MECFS #LongCovid #MCAS

@FlosArt It's beautiful

Day 30. One months worth of daily dog walk watercolours. Odd days on this self imposed project have felt like a chore but on the whole I’ve loved it, it’s become part of my day now. Off to assemble my diary. Thanks for the likes & reposts. See you later.

Day seven of my self imposed painting the dog walk challenge. A different route and a brighter morning.

@MbarkCherguia Poodle

Man or dog?

@areyoflight @Klang764 You can easily see on the photo she is in pain doing what she is doing.

This is the disgusting abuse that disabled people put up with everyday.👇 1. I rely on delivery services on days I’m too unwell to function. 2. Chronic illnesses have good days and bad days. What you can do one day may not be possible the next day. 3. Unless you have their medical records, you don’t know what that person is dealing with. Stop demonising chronically ill and disabled people ‼️

@joemichalczuk This is what the government is trying to do. They want the NHS money to go to private firms. Their friends and cushy jobs afterwards. They are making the NHS break so everyone will pay privately.

A shower screen shattered all over my wife this week. Over the next 72 hours, the NHS got almost everything wrong. A cautionary tale of a system that is broken (with the usual caveat that everyone working in it is doing their best) 👇 I called an ambulance. All good at first: “It’s on its way.” Ten minutes later: “Actually, there are no ambulances for hours - can you get her to hospital?” So I loaded my bleeding wife into the car, along with the kids and the dog, and drove to A&E. Ten hours later, she came home - having given up after not even being offered a plaster. The next morning, we called our GP: “Any chance she could see a nurse?” “No - as the ambulance referred her to hospital, we can’t see her.” So I went to the pharmacy and bought a first aid kit. Because apparently that’s where we are now - me and a pack of plasters, in one of the richest countries in the world. This morning, still in pain, still untreated, and with a ballooning foot, we went to an urgent treatment centre. At first, smooth. She was seen in under two hours. X-ray done. “Nasty cut, but nothing broken.” Relief. Two hours later, the phone rang. It was the hospital. “Sorry - we got that completely wrong. Your foot is broken and the wound needs antibiotics.” If it wasn’t so serious, it would be laughable. And the truth is - anyone who uses the system has a story like this. We need to stop clinging to an idealised version of the NHS and have a grown-up conversation about how to fix it. Free healthcare for all should remain a principle - but pretending the current model works isn’t helping anyone. Almost every other developed country combines public healthcare with some level of private provision - and all deliver better outcomes as a result. Yet in the UK, even suggesting that tends to get shut down before the conversation starts. That’s not protecting the NHS. It’s protecting a cult. We don’t need ideology. We need honesty about what works. We need a brilliant NHS in practice for all of us - not one we’re told to revere while it quietly crumbles, and where anyone who speaks up is dismissed or discredited. When are we going to get serious about the things that actually matter - and have the difficult national conversations needed to fix them? We don’t need to abandon the NHS. We need to be honest about fixing it. We shouldn’t just shrug our shoulders. We have to be better. We need to vote for real change.

@HaggisAdele I had a dog that could clear an 8ft fence. We ended up having to take him out on a lead everytime he went out into the garden.

We put this up to enclose the back part of the garden and Rex just cleared it 😬

@cfs_jo I am so relieved for you! I was so worried.

UC sorted. Payment will go in on Monday. #Relief

🧵 before getting this stick I would pop in my car and take a picture that I want and maybe if I was well now paint it whilst I was there. Instead I am trawling the internet looking for a similar bridge to what I imagine.

This is going to sound really pathetic but I am angry about being ill at this moment in time. I want to do a painting of eyeore for his birthday. I know the bridge I want to show him going under. It's the bridge I played pooh sticks at as a kid. I cannot find a good picture 🧵

@HWarlow I am so sorry for your loss 🫂

Good Morning Everyone Olivier Fischer French Watercolours artist ( Honfleur) Sad news I’m afraid Stee died this morning. I’m bereft. The nurses said it was sudden. I still need to tweet or I’ll go mad. Here and there and inbetween. I’ll tweet when I can. Helen and Max

@NeleHelena That is a beautiful idea ❤️

Two years ago Loes from the Netherlands who had #severeME died after she applied for + received euthanasia. She was 63 but got ill much younger and lived for a long time with ME. I hope she won't be forgotten. We should keep posting about all the people we've lost. We should 1/

@GardenBrocante Have a wonderful day

Good morning. A day in the garden but not a normal day, I’ll be playing with my grandchildren. I’m sure the polisher will be supervising! 🤣 Have a wonderful day, I’ll try and catch up later 😅 Ranunculus (I’m calling it raspberry ripple as I don’t know what variety it is!)

@hopefullizzy Beautiful thanks for sharing

Day Six since @networkrail said they’d unblock the mortar in nest holes at #ChapelMilton. It’s not happened. #swifts spotted 21 miles away today. #saveourswifts #unblocktheholes @WriterHannahBT

So I read about some Tunai massage that China is having some positive effects on ME patients so I contacted my local place to see if they would treat me. They would only offer acupuncture with all my conditions. Don't know what to do.

@Sandra55 Yep ours is a call between 8am and 1pm or 1pm and 7pm.

Up, washed and dressed by 8am to sit next to the phone for my Drs call. It’s booked for 8.30 but I like to be early & ready Currently it’s 9.24am so far the Dr hasn’t called. I’m reluctant to start doing stuff (or even going to the loo) in case I miss the call I hate waiting

@KSchnickelfritz You are doing amazing 🤩. That is so difficult.

I am so slow at this. Just about getting my head around the charts and pattern now. Have restarted it several times already.