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[nishatalitha]

Your local update on my leg. *grins* I'm quite fascinated watching this develop. I haven't bruised myself this badly since I fell off my bike when I was 15 and jammed my thigh between the frame and the handlebars. I got two bruises bigger than my hand on either side of my leg then and the resulting limping has screwed up my knees, particularly in cold weather.

The colour is darkening still on the patches where it just showed up yesterday. There's also a thumb-sized bit of purple/grey around the toothmarks. The odd bit is that although it hurts to touch the bits which have gone to grey/black, the palm sized area around the toothmarks which is still red/purple has gone numb. I mean, it hurts if I press down on it, but I can't actually feel my fingers on my skin. It's just a point of pressure. This is probably not a good thing.

However, I made an appointment at the Northland Medical Centre for tomorrow morning to get a flu vaccination (yes, I did mention that I had an immediate allergic reaction to the last one) and I'll ask them about my leg then. Because I'm thinking that no feeling in my skin is probably a bad thing. I also have an optomistrist appointment tomorrow afternoon at 3.15pm since I've been having trouble with my eyes at work and I went to the gynecologist's today.

I was pleasantly surprised not to get scolded about anything except one thing and that wasn't a serious scolding. She was actually quite pleased with me; said I was on the right track, that I needed to find a GP and update them on my information and stuff (I'll get various sources to send my records over), but I was going well and I don't need to go back unless something goes wrong again.

Oh, and apparently, the correct BMI weight for me is 58 kilos! I don't think I've weighed that since I was 15 or 16. I don't think my Mum has gotten down to that for a very long time (or until the last couple of years, for a very long time) and she's always been fairly skinny. So instead of the ten or so kilos I was going to try and lose by my birthday, that's twenty or so to work on. Is anyone sure that the BMI is right? Or is it just a working guideline/ideal weight thing?

Am going to leave for my LARP meeting in an hour or so. Meanwhile, I'm either going to do more of my dragon (I've decided upon working on that while I work out if I want to do something else) or write some more of the Christine Feehan/Rurouni Kenshin crossover that I have eleven pages of. Oh yes, and there's Schism.

Comments

[jessikast]

BMI IS THE WRONGEST THING EVA OMGOMG

Seriously, you should remember when I got told I was obese according to the BMI. It's only a vague guideline and doesn't take into account a gazillion factors. (eg. Weight caused by muscle mass as opposed to fat; different diets meaning different bone density etc.) Anorexics have used it to prove that they are healthy.

[nishatalitha.livejournal.com]

Yes, I vaguely recall you saying something about that. It does seem very wrong. I think I would be too skinny if I lost that much weight. *shakes head* I'll chat to Mum about it and see what she says, I think. That jusst seems to be too low.

I was rereading old lj entries to find out if I said anything about my allergic reaction to the flu vaccination last year so I could tell the doctor about it correctly and I found out that R. has been here about a year now! It doesn't seem like it!

[jessikast]

R?

[nishatalitha.livejournal.com]

Rachel. And I'm not allowed to take the flu vaccine because I've reacted to it in the past and apparently the reactions keep getting worse everytime you have it. *pouts* I want to have a flu vaccination, even if the last reaction was kinda nasty. I should probably see if a nurse could check my leg out anyhow.

[marsden-online.livejournal.com]

BMI has been discredited for years. I fail to understand why they keep using it. As a general guideline add at least 5kg if you have a slight frame, 10 if you are "average" (I'd put you there) and 15 if you are actually heavyset.

This is for a person who lives a non-physical (eg bodybuilding, construction worker) lifestyle.

MArsden

[nishatalitha.livejournal.com]

Well, that makes me feel a whole lot better. My original goal is much more sensible than BMI would make it appear. :)

[thesane.livejournal.com]

Also bear in mind that the BMI scale says that I am overweight (only just, but I still find it amusing).