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A new acronym - SIBO!

  SIBO – a new acronym! Well, the dietician was worth every penny.   Like the doctor at the Colo-rectal department she thinks the battering my body has taken these last seven years (especially the last 19 months) has messed up my guts, causing these “IBS” type symptoms.   She thinks it is the mental stress as well as the physical stress plus all those drugs I took post-SCAD (rare type of heart attack) and post-Minimaze (surgical ablation for Afib) in the last 12 months.   She was interested to hear that despite all I’ve been through I rarely cry.   I explained it was because of the HHT (genetic blood vessel disorder) which means my nose usually bleeds profusely if I cry.  Her pithy statement was “What doesn’t come out of your eyes, comes out of your bum”!!!!   In other words, if you don’t let the sorrow out in tears it will affect your digestive system – due to the gut-brain axis – where your brain and gut are closely related.  However, she do...
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Denmark! April and May 2026

  We made it to Denmark! I finished last time by saying that the Danish language looked challenging – in the end EVERYONE spoke fluent English and we had no need to try much Danish though I did develop a penchant for   Stjerneskud (Shooting Star) which was a bit of a mouthful in more ways than one – this is a classic Danish luxury smørrebrød (open-faced sandwich) served on buttered bread, topped with fried and steamed whitefish (usually plaice), shrimp, asparagus, and roe. It is often garnished with lemon, dill, and a creamy dressing, making it a staple lunch dish in Denmark.   It was invented in honour of Yuri Gagarin when he visited Denmark – when I told one young waiter this he looked blank – not because he didn’t understand my English but because he’d never hear of Gagarin, the first man in Space!!   I had this dish four times in 11 days and it was so good. We ate tons of salmon and other fish too, though I had to go easy on the bread (delicious looking r...
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