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Good, I'm glad to hear it. Normally, when you research a highly politicised topic like this, one of your objectives is to make a list of What Not To Say Under Any Circumstances. This would probably make the top three.

You'd think they might have wondered whether the proteome profile is also the same in healthy people, wouldn't you. Because that would tell them something different altogether.

I am severely dischuffed. I knew this wasn't going to go well, and it hasn't. My letter to The Guardian this morning: I doubt it'll have much effect, but I feel better.

My experience is atypical, but if someone found a drug that improved ME as much as some of these Covid inoculations improve mine, we'd be celebrating a major development. AZ#2 and the Moderna bivalent have both given me a really significant improvement. AZ#1 was a bit too effective, I felt as...

30 hours out from the Moderna bivalent booster, and no negative side effects yet. Positive side effects have been a boost in energy for most of the day. Hoping the lack of negative side-effects continues, but I know it might too soon for them to have show up yet! :nailbiting:

The early retirees I know who've given up work a few years ahead of state pension age have mostly done so because workplaces were just becoming more and more toxic, and they have at least some pension provision to fill the gap. Staff management was farmed out to faceless HR departments who did...

The old DLA system worked like that, at least where I lived. Both my assessments were done by a lovely retired GP who was selected because knew about ME. He was sharp and funny, too, so rather than being an extremely stressful hour, it had its entertaining moments. Second time around, when I...

I suspect that as with a lot of other chronic conditions, it's not currently amenable to cure. If there is something out there that could produce a marked improvement but no one realises yet, it might be because it's a less-than-benign medicine that no doctor would want to muck about with on the...

I voted for the last one, because I don't really think it's worth experimenting with some things, particularly medicines, outside of a supervised trial. However, pacing in particular is low risk, and I'd feel okay about recommending someone with apparent post-viral illness try it for a few...

Just to bump this by way of a reminder—the livestream is on Monday. I checked with Michael Orton yesterday, and the footage will be available on the commission's YouTube channel afterwards, for anyone who's interested but unable to watch at the time. This link will allow you to watch live or...

Are you disguising the top-secret location you're reporting from? (Sorry! :laugh:)

I got my kit yesterday. I meant to take the sample and send it off whilst I was on my way to swimming this morning, but the box got hidden under a book and therefore no longer existed as far as what passes for my mind was concerned. :rolleyes: Tomorrow, hopefully. ETA: added word "send"

I've been trying to find ways to argue this for years, but was hampered by not really knowing whether it would be considered a meaningful sign. It would also be useful to understand whether it's common for there to be a pattern of swelling. For instance, I've known my throat glands become...