Gawd, this was so funny, it almost killed me...

So, after the build up of the last entry, the punchline finally got delivered.

You ready for this? Oh, it's a cracker... an absolute pearler...

A week of chronic diarrhoea causing me to lose over 3kg (6.6lb), leaving me gaunt, dehydrated, exhausted and getting comments like, "Have you lost more weight?" not in that 'jolly well done!' tone, but in that 'hey, are you OK?' tone.

And the best bit is?

After tests and faffing about with my doctor, my pharmacist tells me it's the...

Wait for it, it'll kill ya...

It's the anti-depressants!

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

Geddit? The anti-depressants!

It's funny. You know, the anti-depressants...

Sheesh, tough audience.

Seriously folks, I'm doing it a bit hard down here at the moment. I've put in my Christmas list to Santa. I've asked for several consecutive weeks where nothing even remotely medically interesting happens to me. And I've been ever such a good girl.

In better news, I've had my first appointment with a naturopath and she's all over my health issues like white on rice. She's got a list of supplements she wants me on and is also a massage therapist who can't wait to get her hands all over me. Bliss!

Not only that, but she's really impressed with my diet and the way I've lost weight (well, up until the last 3kg, anyway) and can't think of anything to change the way I'm eating (the supplements are for things you can't get in therapeutic quantities in food). So it's nice to have my existing habits validated as well as have someone be clearly interested in getting me well (unlike my doctor who, after testing a stool sample told me there was nothing wrong with me and to drink peppermint tea--the same doctor who prescribed the anti-depressants in the first place and should have been aware of this charming side effect).

I've also got an appointment with the immunology clinic on Tuesday to try and sort out the food allergies. Turns out my aunt found herself deathly allergic to bananas in her early thirties, so it sounds like there's a pre-disposition right there.

So things are looking up. I'm going to take myself off the Edronax. After all, if I've had chronic diarrhoea for this long, I've probably not been absorbing that stuff properly so it's not doing me any good anyway. I'm tempted to go back to the St John's Wort, just in larger doses this time, and see if that helps.

Finally, I've decided that one of the sweetest phrases you can ever hear if you ask one of your clients out for a business lunch is, "Sure, I've got the rest of the afternoon off anyway!"

I think we re-defined the long, liquid lunch. It was really lovely to hear one of my clients tell me that she and her superiors actually look forward to receiving my reports because not only are they informative and help them make good business decisions, they're an entertaining read as well. Imagine that, business reports that actually get read!

Best of all, with all the tummy problems, I got to eat creme caramel and LOSE WEIGHT! Hell, I could take double cream intravenously right now and lose!

When it just rains frogs for no reason (love that phrase, Yet Another Tree), I've gotta look on the bright side. And Scott, thanks for the offer. That's mighty powerful stuff you've got there.