Like most people, the first part of 2020 was spent working from home while the world faced the global coronavirus pandemic. I was also recovering from a rotator cuff operation in December 2019.
This meant that by may/June 2020 I found myself getting really out of shape and told my self I needed to start exercising again. I’d not really done anything other than dog walks and a few bike rides in 6 months and I was feeling it.
In the middle of July 2020 I developed an annoying tickly cough. My first though was coronavirus! Lucky the NHS testing process was well developed and I had a test at 7.30 the next day, a Saturday morning.
I had to tell people I had a test as we’d been meeting people and I did screw up the plans of some friends and family but luckily I got the all clear that evening. 12 hours from test to results via text, fair play NHS.
So what have I got then? I had an e-consult with the Dr and we established I was coughing more in the morning and evenings so came to the conclusion it was seasonal asthma, probably triggered with pollen morning and evenings. Take a brown puffer and see if that helps.
It didn’t. By mid August I noticed that I was getting out of breath just taking the rubbish out to the bins, going up the stairs. I didn’t believe this was all down to fitness. Another e-consult and the Dr asked me to get some blood tests done to check what’s going on.
The tests showed that everything was normal apart from low vitamin D and high iron. He asked for a second set of tests to drill into these two things. Unfortunately things took a turn for the worst before the results came back.
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