Life's Blood

Some people can't function without tea, others without coffee. For me, it's Diet Coke.

My love affair with it started at the end of the 80s when I was driving for a living. Until then I used to drink gallons of water, but slowly the balance changed. Now, it is not unknown for met to drink 2+ litres of diet coke a day.

I'm sure there are those who drink more than that but someone told me a fact that explains something about my health. One of the elder ladies at the opera group noticed me drinking my DC and asked me if I had arthritis. I replied that indeed, I had arthritis in my little finger joints. She then told me that she used to drink quite a lot of diet coke and she had quite bad arthritis. Someone told her that if she cut the coke out she would improve. She did and she did.

Now I'm left monitoring my intake, not by how many empty cans are on the floor in the back of the car, but how much my little finger joints hurt.

And I hate to think what else it must be doing to me!