Hello beautiful people. It is an amazingly warm day so close to winter. It hasn't rained for a long time which is worrying. For that reason I hope winter kicks in soon. My hip and stomach issues are worse. My hip got so painful I saw a Physio even though I cannot afford it. This year I have spent at least $500 on physiotherapy and I can't work - because of my hip. Sigh.

My stomach is bad. Extreme burning pain after eating. Slowly I am discovering what causes less pain. I have to force myself to eat as I am losing weight fast. I see my GP next Wed to get the results of a blood test for gastritis. If positive it may just involve a course of antibiotics to fix it. If not I will have an endoscopy. I don't think it's serious, just very painful and inconvenient. I just hope my meds are digesting ok.

Other that the above I am still stable and mostly cheerful. Had a weird few hours last night where I thought I was going mad again but I woke up fine today. Overall I have hope that I will return to full health and be able to get back to work before I run out of savings. This makes me realise that having a positive mindset, well at least for me, requires me to be reasonably mentally well. When I'm in an episode everything goes black, well except during the euphoric mania.