I can't remember what I've done today, but it feels like it's been a very long and exhausting day, so I've taken my last four pills of the day (the supplement that doesn't have any affect on me at all, the pill that I forgot to take this morning plus my usual two nightly ones) and I'm heading to bed, bang on time.
I'll see you all in the morning when I'm expecting another 3 deliveries.
Nite nite orl.
...again... until tomorrow.
I've had a busy few days but I've got 34 cans of ginger beer and about 1.5kg of crystalised ginger so that'll hopefully be enough for a few days after my jab and I can get more crystalised ginger whenever I need it, but I might leave off getting 24 cans of ginger beer if I'm already feeling icky lol
I'm really hoping there won't be any side effects at all, but in reality I know that's very unlikely so if I only get them for a couple of weeks, like last year, that's fine by me.
I'll be eating a couple of slices of bread (not toast) before I go so that I can line my stomach which seemed to help last time and I won't be avoiding food completely like the first two or three times, I'll just be very careful about what I put into my mouth until I'm back to normal again.
At worst it'll be water, ginger beer and crystalised ginger and at best it'll be hot chocolate. I'm not going to take any stupid risks, but I'll be eating what I can, when I can until I'm back to normal again. Other than the crystalised ginger, I'll start by eating bread, then progress to toast, then take it from there. My body gets to decide what and when I eat and I will answer those requests whenever it is made for the first while.
It'll be my body that makes the decisions for the first however long it needs to be and I will bow down to its requests so that we can work together to get me on the road to recovery as quickly as possible.
...and the significant nausea was just my body rapidly adjusting to something new?
I've just had my lunch of 6 iced mince pies and while I do feel a bit icky, it's nowhere near as bad as it was yesterday, thankfully, it's nothing too out of the ordinary... yet! I've brought the crystalised ginger in with me but I haven't even thought about opening the tub yet, so that's a huuuuge relief.
I'll see how this afternoon goes, but I'm trying to remain cautiously hopeful that yesterday was just a blip that's standard for my body whenever I introduce anything new.
As usual, I've just taken my first blood pressure reading of the day and the top number was the lowest by a mile - not even in triple figures!! It's a good job I've been taking photos of each reading 'cos I don't think anyone would believe my 100th reading without it!!
I've popped my morning pills with my morning glass of water, refilled the bottle with squash and the virus scan is chugging away slowly.
I've got a delivery due today so I bet it'll come when I've got a mouthful of mince pie lol
This first blog post of the day is getting a bit long, so I'm gonna publish it and get today's to-do list put together as well as resizing the blood pressure reading photo before my first carer of the day arrives, with any luck.
I'm absolutely cream-crackered and in a great deal of pain as well as my usual wobbles but I'm soooo proud of myself so I'm gonna head to beddy-byes now and try out one of the products that arrived just before lunch.
I'll see you all in the morning after hopefully a few hours of shut-eye.
Nite nite orl.
I've just unblocked my card and I've just gotta wait 15 minutes before I can use it again, but hopefully everything is working again now.
Assuming I can put the order through, I think I deserve the last J2O of the non-writing season. Gonna give it until 4.50pm before I try, just to be 100% sure but I'm trying to remain cautiously hopeful that it's sorted now.
That's the virus scan and backups done for another week so I can relax until my delivery and lunchtime carer get here... knowing my luck they will both turn up together lol
My lunches for the rest of the year (assuming that they are in stock each week of course) will be mince pies, so that's another nice, easy lunch that I can make for myself while my carers sit and use their phones for the entire 18 minute visit.
My breakfast was using my brother's birthday gift of a very personalised mug and English breakfast tea which I took a photo of, but there are photos of my youngest nephew all around it, so there won't be any photos of it and the only way you'll get to see it is if you visit me at home 😉. My brother has understandably asked that I don't share the photos with anyone and I totally respect that and won't do it for anything with pictures on them either.
My birthday delivery from my mum could turn up at any time so I've gotta keep my ear out for that too.
Time to update today's to-do list now I reckon.
I've woken up feeling stiff and sore and just generally bleh, then my VPN decided to block the internet so I had to stop the weekly scan and reboot, then my phone decided to stop working and needed a reboot too so I've generally not had a good start to the day.
My morning pills have been popped with my morning glass of water so I'm just waiting for my morning carer to arrive now.
I know today is supposed to be a busy day for me, but I can't remember why so I'm gonna put today's to-do list together and hope that whatever is making today busy is spread out rather than all happening at once.
Time to get the to-do list up now I reckon.
BBS
It's been 4 days and 3 nights since I had my flu vaccine and I'm still stiff as a board and getting niggles of pain in my other arm too now!
I'm giving my FitBit some emergency juice so that it'll record my sleep tonight, but charging it up is another thing to add to tomorrow's ever-growing to-do list. I bet I'll forget that it's Wednesday tomorrow and just run the daily scan instead of the weekly one... I'm also predicting that I'll forget about doing the backups too lol
My last two pills of the day have been popped and the liquid logged into my FitBit, so I'm gonna put my FitBit back around my ankle and attempt to make it up the stairs to bed.
I'll see you all in the morning.
Nite nite orl.
...all go tomorrow!
As well as my normal weekly virus scan and backups, I've also got a delivery due between 9.41am and 12.41pm so I bet it'll turn up while I'm making and eating my lunch. My prescription is also due tomorrow and I've gotta put today's and tomorrow's BP readings up on my health site too!
Yesterday started with a totally free week and now there is so much stuff crammed into two days that I won't have a chance to recover from which is gonna screw me up just in time for my second jab. If the jab is anything like my past ones, I could still be suffering the side effects of that in 3 months time!!
...11 days since my prescription was sent to them, my prescription will be here "tomorrow". That's 100% delivery chase up record in the last 6 months, but it's next door to my GP surgery and it's who they deal with, so I've gotta put up and shut up and be prepared to chase them up each time again.
...that the 2 tubs of treat-sized chocolates at the bottom of the teetering tower over by the freezer, are reserved for NaNo24 and JanNo25.
I've got a tub and a half of treat-sized chocolates to get through in the fridge and there are 10 x J2O's ready to go for landmark writing treats so I'm all ready to go now.
If my maths is right (which it probably isn't lol) I'll be able to have a treat-sized choccie for every thousand words I write and a J2O for every 5,000 that I write. I'm gonna stock up on the Glitterberry J2O's for JanNo but they won't be available until closer to Christmas time and I haven't got room for them any more either lol.
I'm basically stocking up on treats little and often so that it's not so stressful or expensive to do it all at once, but NaNo is totally ready now, I've just gotta get into the intense writing headspace that I get into throughout November and I spend January editing.
It'll be weird all round this time 'cos I'll be writing non-fiction for the first time in my life, exposing a very private part of myself and my disability potentially to the world and hopefully getting into the hands of trainee doctors so that hopefully nobody else has to go through what I went through and am now stuck with for the rest of my life.
...it's definitely mince pies for each lunch and the festive season has definitely started.
I've got plenty of instant soups in the cupboard in case the mince pies aren't available, but as long as they are it'll be toast and a hot drink for breakfast and a box of 6 mince pies and a glass of water for lunch.
...the festive season!
At some point in the last 7 days, Morrisons have got the mince pies on the shelves and I'm getting 6 boxes with my groceries this afternoon.
Every lunch (except Sundays and Mondays) will be mince pies for lunch until the New Year now and I can't wait! My sweet tooth is gonna go into overdrive so I'll have to go on a sugar detox when the mince pies have finished lol
I've woken up in a great mood! I was tempted to cut up and take a happy pill last night but it would have masked the goodness I'm feeling naturally this morning!
I've taken my first blood pressure reading of the day, popped my 10 morning pills, run the daily virus scan (which was still clear) and put my watch on to charge up.
My groceries are due this afternoon... will they turn up at lunchtime instead??
Time to put today's to-do list together now, while I wait for my first carer of the day... will she be any better than both of yesterday's or will she actually do her job this morning?
I haven't got much to show for it, but I've achieved a pretty decent amount this afternoon and I can finally cross something off my to-do list that's been hanging around for a few days and move on to the next task - trying to find a way to get the spreadsheet on my health site too! Definitely a job for tomorrow instead of tonight though.
I've popped my last two pills off the day and I'm shutting down for the night now.
I'll see you all in the morning.
Nitey nite nite orl.
I've just had someone come to the door that I thought was a very early lunchtime carer, but it was someone asking if I rented the house and I'm like nope then he asked if I had a fence pole down and I'm standing there thinking that I don't even know what that is lol I guess someone gave him the wrong address and they won't be getting their fence pole fixed after all lol
I've woken up feeling like I haven't slept for a week so today is gonna be a real struggle, but never mind eh?
Today is gonna be a busy day for me 'cos as well as weighing myself and logging my weight into the FitBit app, I've also gotta do 4 loads of laundry, put the photos onto my health site, bring in and use my delivery as well as the normal daily things like getting washed and dressed, doing the three BP tests, logging the information into the spreadsheet and making both meals!
I've already taken the first BP reading of the day, finished the daily virus scan and popped my 9 morning pills so I'm all set until lunchtime now.
This blog post is getting long, so I'm gonna publish it and put today's to-do list together.
BBIAB
I've had a busy and exhausting few days so I'm gonna crawl on up to bed for the last time this week so that my body can decide to wake me up as soon as my head hits the pillow.
I'll see you all in the morning.
Nite nite orl.
...start uploading the blood pressure photos to my health site please?
I've got a reasonably free week (unless I'm plagued with more techie troubles) next week - just my Amazon order hopefully arriving tomorrow and my groceries on Tuesday, but I don't think I've got anything else on. I wanna get it done before I go for my vaccination the week after 'cos I'm guessing I'll be feeling incredibly ropey for a few weeks after that, then NaNo then Yule then JanNo so I wanna get as much of it done as I can before then... you watch me forget though lol