3 Too Many

“The brick walls are there for a reason. They’re not there to keep us out. The brick walls are there to give us a chance to show how badly we want something.” – Randy Pausch

The best start to the day in weeks.  Yes broken and restless sleep, but woke feeling alive and having the least pain I have had in about 2 weeks.  Almost convinced that this walking and doing a lot of exercise thing may be helping in that it is getting the fluids in my body and joints in particular moving and therefore they are not seizing up.  Not sure if that is true but I’ll run with it now, and give it a bit more of a test run and take a few more notes about how I am.  Fell asleep reading last night and woke up crying – not good having tears on your tablet!  Don’t ask me why, or what was going through my head but obviously something had triggered them.  Either that or it was due to the most incredibly hot Thai that I had for dinner.  I forgot to mention about the Shrimp Woonsen I had for tea.  I asked for it to be a little bit spicy but not to strong, well it got lost in translation I guess.  G-man do you remember the Chickpea Chicken Chilli that we made that time in Wychbury Street and it stripped skin off your lips it was that hot?  Well this dish last night made that taste like a sweet.  I have poor taste at the moment but this lit me on fire!!  It was even hot to just breath in after eating some.  I must have adjusted to it though as I ate about two thirds of it!  My eyes were running, nose was running, I was glowing red, and cooling it with bourbons quicker than they could deliver them – well almost.  Maybe this also helped the body aches by keeping me warm all night, but also caused the restless night – though I can’t remember waking because of what I’d eaten.  More likely the steroids, as I have had them the past 2 days to knock back the head pains before they knock me down to far.  Now to spend the next week weaning off them – crazy 2 days of pills takes a week to come off – ggrrr!!  If I just stop them then the side effects can be worse than the cause.  Anyway I call last nights sleep a victory because of how I’m feeling.

Get up and make a cuppa tea, take meds and head back to bed to read for a bit, this time without crying.  Silly really, a grown man crying so much, but you know – I really don’t give a crap who knows or what they think, I have a wee bit on my plate to deal with and if I want to let it out and let you know cause I know that you will understand and not give me crap about it.  Well not too much anyway, else I’ll poke you in the eye and make you cry too   Just teasing!  I sort out my next drug schedule on the MediMate app on the iPhone, and notice a couple off bugs so email the developer about them.  Bugger me if I don’t get a reply within 5 minutes, with in 3 hours I have another email saying that he resolved them and will be releasing an update over night.  Now that is service!!! If you take or know someone that has to take a lot of different medications at different times, days, etc and they have an iPhone or iPad then I can definitely recommend this app.  And thank you for recommending it to me   It has been a great help. 

Get up and get on with the day then as we are heading to the Booths for brunch and a catch up about their Aussie holiday.  Pick up Jacob from Tom’s place along the way.  If you have the Canterbury vs Auckland NPC final recorded or see a replay, then Jacob is on the TV at about the first half 34min mark.  Lachie just scooters over as he is around the corner from them.  Have  waffles, pancakes, bacon and eggs for brunch – very yummy, and hits the spot perfectly.  As you may have gathered the nausea has minimised to almost nothing.  This could be due to the steroids building up my appetite again – look out pantry!!  I really do struggle with the not wanting to take steroids, because of the crap side effects – over eating, squirrel face, sleeplessness, with the benefits I do get from them – appetite, less head pain, better mood.  Going to try some Kava tonight to see how that works – watch this space.

Get home and mow the lawn, waterblast the driveway, help Jacob clean the fish tank, and clean out the blocked window washer jets on the car.  So just a quiet arvo ; -)  Then have a kick round with the boys.  Have dinner then Joh calls and have a chat for a bit.  Nice to talk Joh.  Have a quiet evening doing the blog and watching TV – well staring at it aimlessly as there is nothing on.  Trust all have had a good day and not to busier time.  M&D time and early to bed I think as starting to fade and want to be able to read some more tonight as I’ve so very nearly finished my book that Scotty gave me.  Nearly – 20 pages to go I think.  All in all it has been a good day on many fronts and health is in a reasonable state.  So we will wait until tomorrow morning to see what Monday brings.  Take care, be bad, don’t get caught.  Till tomorrow.

Kia Kaha.