by Tricia
I’ve had an awful week. My sleep time is all turned around – going to bed really late, getting up late. It’s been terrible. Of course when I don’t sleep at a normal time the sleep I do get isn’t all that good so I’ve been overtired too.
Well last night I fell asleep on the couch at about 11:30. I woke up at 5:30 am, but I feel like I’ve had a good sleep despite the fact that it was on the couch.
I’m up!
by Tricia
Can you believe I’m still feeling ill and getting worse. I think my Crohn’s is in full flare. I hate this. The week before last I spent the majority of the week, day and night, lying on the couch. That’s how sick I was.
Then last Saturday evening I suddenly felt a lot better – for about 36 hours. Of course I chose that time to get a lot of gardening work done and probably over did it so I slowly went downhill again over the week and by Friday I was back to being a couch potato again.
Yesterday was the worst. I have lots of meds that I take and some of them are pretty heavy duty pain meds. One of the pain meds I take twice a day as it’s a long acting pain medication. Two of the others are faster acting and I can take them when I’m having bad pain that needs immediate control. Well .. I almost never take the short acting pain medication during the day. The worst of my pain is in the evening and through the night.
Yesterday however my pain was so bad that I ended up having two percocets through the day on top of my long acting pain meds. I never do that!
Today is a bit better. Maybe I got on top of the pain again. I don’t know. All I know is that I can’t take much more of this constant yoyo’ing back and forth between tolerable pain and unbearable pain.
by Tricia
I was hoping that I’d have been more productive today. I got up early, after not much sleep, because I had an early doctors appointment. When I got home I was feeling my lack of sleep but I pushed on and got a few things done – the best of which being getting all of our bills paid.
I hate paying bills. It’s not because we don’t have the money to pay the bills … it’s just that I don’t like paying them. Probably because I think we’re being charged way too much for many of the things that I just paid for this morning – cable, electricity … both have doubled since the first year we were in our house!
A while after that a wave of tiredness hit me that I couldn’t ignore. It didn’t help that I wasn’t feeling all that well again. I had an awful week last week, but surprisingly I suddenly started feeling better around 5 pm on Saturday and managed to get a lot of gardening work done over the weekend. I must have over did it though because I’m back to feeling crummy. Not as bad as last week though! Small blessing I guess.
If this keeps up I’m not sure how I’ll ever get anything done. I must start feeling better – and getting better sleep.
by Tricia
I spent the day yesterday on the couch. I never did get dressed. Nope. I stayed in my comfy PJ’s and just vegged out.
I’ve had an awful week. I have Crohns and it’s been acting up terribly. I’ve had little sleep in the past two weeks because of it. In fact, yesterday I’d stayed up all night because of the pain, and just as I was going to go to bed to try to get some sleep the pain suddenly got a lot worse. Knowing I couldn’t sleep until pure exhaustion took over I just stayed on the couch watching TV until I finally drifted off.
I didn’t really wake up until 6 p.m. yesterday. I still felt wiped out too.
I hate having days and weeks like this. It’s terrible.