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Unknown's avatar Michael Collins 2:08 pm on 15/10/2012
Tags: 3, , , , , pain,   

My Girlfriend’s Fibromyalgia

Hello friends. There’s something serious I’d like to talk to you about today. Most of you read my blogs because you’re a geek, because you have an interest in technology, gadgets, games or Linux, geeky things like that. But today i might attract a slightly different type of person.

As you may know, my girlfriend (her blog can be found here) has something called Fibromyalgia. In short, it’s a disorder that mostly causes pain throughout most of the body, and it can also cause sleep problems, stiff joints, numbness and tingling as well as some others. But they are mostly what Tracey gets. Here is a picture of the symptoms:

An illustration of Fibromyalgia symptoms

The problem is that, because there no external symptoms, i.e. symptoms that can be seen, people tend to think that it’s all in the head. It isn’t. It’s there. I know i can’t imagine what it feels like because it hasn’t happened to me. There is also no known cure for it yet.

And that means i can’t do anything about it. Medicines don’t do very much, they get rid of the pain a bit, but it obviously doesn’t cure it. And I am totally helpless. Not just because she’s in Dublin and I’m in Birmingham. Even if I’m there with her, there’s nothing i can do. I just have to sit there, knowing she’s in pain. At best I can cuddle her and do things for her. But that isn’t enough. I don’t want her to be going through this pain. But we have no choice. There’s nothing anyone can do except try to relieve the pain when it appears.

If you want to read more about it, the Wikipedia page is here.

On another note, I have recently came back from seeing Tracey in Ireland. As usual, it was amazing and we had loads of sex. We always have an amazing time. I love spending time with her. I love just cuddling with her. I try and touch her, hold her hand as much as i can. I love every moment with her.

And oh yeah, my Galaxy Note is a bit broken. It doesn’t charge properly anymore. So i’m going to leave for work early and take it back to the 3 shop. I miss my Note. I’ve been using my Nexus S.

Anyway I have to get ready for work. Toodle pip

Unknown's avatar Michael Collins 4:52 pm on 19/04/2012
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Samsung Galaxy Note

Hello everyone.

Two days ago, i tried to upgrade my Nexus S to a better phone on a better contract. So i looked to see what my phone provider, 3, had to offer.

There was a couple of phones i was thinking of getting. The Samsung Galaxy S2, the HTC One X, and the Samsung Galaxy Note. After a bit of specification checking, I decided to go with the Note.

So the next day, I went back on the 3 website and worked out what contract would be the cheapest in the long run, and worked out what was the cheapest one with unlimited Internet. I believe it was the 300 minutes one.

So i ordered it, and it all went through and stuff. So all was good with the world. But (there’s always a “but”) a couple of hours later, I got an email from 3 saying that the Note was out of stock.

I was disappointed. I wanted a phone with a bigger screen. But oh well, I’ll have to get the Galaxy S2. So back on to the 3 website I go.

So i go back on and go to upgrade again. But the Note is still there. I can’t change it. I try several times that day and it didn’t change.

So next day, I went into the 3 shop in town. I talked to a nice girl about it and she sorted me out with a Note. And here it is. It didn’t even have an upfront fee like the one on the website did. Result!

And it’s beautiful. The screen big. My Nexus S looks like a HTC Wildfire in comparison and the stylus works nice, although it’s a bit off centre, which can be quite annoying. Especially when drawing on Draw Something.

By the way, if you wanna play against me on that, my username is micolps3, as usual.

So that’s all for now. Play me on Draw Something. And enjoy whatever you’re doing and planning on doing. Toodles.