Made it Through Summer...

...and am back to school. That should be a good thing this time around. We'll see how the body reacts to being back on a routine.

5-3/4 out of 6

That's where I am right now... on the pain scale. 6 is completely incapacitated and/or dead. 3-1/2 to 4 is pretty normal for me. 5 happens pretty frequently. 2 happens rarely. 

I suppose to be fair I am closer to 5-5/8, except I don't deal in eighths. I can still function with a keyboard. I think I can proofread.  I can open the refrigerator, and stare at several things that I can't prepare or open, and a few I can. But walking is pure agony. Sitting, not much better. Standing still works for a few seconds. Reclining works for several minutes, but then my feet start throbbing and my back goes on revolt. Oh, and any variation of holding up my head is torturous, but putting it on/against anything accentuates the pain.

So, am I missing something obvious here? Is there something I could be doing that does not hurt? Bleh...

Aaarrrrgghhh....

Was having a pretty good day, physically. Even taught a ballet section for one of the medleys I choreographed for summer camp. And just in the last half hour, I started having major seizures, and they won't stop! Both legs and the right arm. Thirty minutes is a good chunk longer than they usually last. And unfortunately, they don't seem to burn up any fat cells...

Nothing Much...

Just the same. Very little sleep, lots of pain. Just felt like I should enter something in the blog so it doesn't feel ignored...

Good News/Bad News

The body continues to be whack. Sleep continues to be highly sporadic, although I have been getting longer naps during the day, when I can. I tried two days in a row of not allowing myself the daytime naps, hoping that I would in turn sleep more at night; no luck. I just didn't sleep at all for 46 out of 48 hours. I'm walking around with 15-30 broken bones at any given time. I'm also having lots of tremor/seizure things, muscle cramps, and headaches. And I caught a cold.

The good news that my title promised? I got an A in my sign language intensive. woo-hoo...

Made it Through the School Year!

And the body has reacted... by going haywire. I'm not so sure it would qualify as a celebration.

Generally I sleep 2.5 hours at a pop, and fairly often can tack two of those together, waking up for only a minute or so and then going back to sleep. Well, since last Friday when I finished up the term, I have gotten one of those. Not one back-to-back, mind you. One 2.5 hour sleep. I've also gotten two naps that went over the one hour mark by just a bit. Everything else has been in the 20 minute range. 

I'm still functioning, to my knowledge. I've been taking an intensive beginning Sign Language class all this week, and hopefully have retained some of the info. The final is in about six hours. And I am once again wide awake. Well, I suppose I could get in more studying...

Ooooph....

You know what I mean?