14 July, 2008

Will I ever learn?

Not to overdue it, that is. Other than the bum bothering me, my fibro has been (touch wood) pretty good lately. And that's when I make the mistake and think my body is just like a normal , healthy one. I did overdue it last week, I had plans every night of the week. I was planning on going to the pool on Friday but when I left work I just felt like I had no energy at all and went straight home. My friend came over that night, which was good, but I definitely needed to just stay on my couch. I thought that would do it, but Saturday - when I was hoping to have a nice lie-in - the drilling on the street began about half eight. There went my brilliant idea. I thought I'd go to the pool but just couldn't get off the couch, until I went back to bed. I tried to take a nap around noon but that didn't work out either. Eventually I met my friend and we went up to City Island. Before I left I (thankfully) remembered to put a lidocaine patch on my right hip, as it's been cranky lately. It was a good thing I did because it was not happy all day. Everyone always said how cool that place was, but I think it's pretty run down and nothing to do there, except eat. And where we ate it wasn't v. good. Perhaps we missed the happening places, but it's pretty small so I find that hard to believe. It was okay though as the weather was nice so we walked around a bit. Then we had the genius idea to go to the MET roof to listen to the Bon Jovi concert. We made it there by eight, and were able to stay up there till about 8.40 - so it was good to hear, and at the same time not deal w/ the masses of humanity down there. After we just had a leisurely cheese and wine dinner at Uva. I love that place!

I probably would have been okay if I had just rested yesterday, but I was off to a close friends house for her kids birthday party. Again I threw on a patch as the hip was still hurting. I'm happy to help but we did so much stuff and I was already feeling wiped out, so think I over did it in a bit way. Plus this weather today is not helping. One day I'll learn not to try to do everything. Then again, maybe not. The party was good though and it was great to see my friend and her kids - it had been a while.

I really need to get to the pool, it's been a week now, and I feel like the hip is hurting because I haven't been doing much exercise. That and the sitting on my right side all the time probably doesn't help. I went to the chiro on Friday and he said when he was done that I definitely needed to come in this week as I'm all knotted up. I've definitely turned myself into a pretzel lately trying to sit comfortably. Wish I had an appointment today, but it's not till Thursday. Right now I have a lido patch on my neck/right shoulder area to try to numb the pain. I hope it works because I am just miserable. Brought my suit but will see later if I think swimming will help or just going home and passing out will be better for me.

As for my recovery from the latest, it's healing, but this morning I woke up to find it had been bleeding again. The doctor said that might happen, so I'm not going to worry about it. Plus I was lifting small children yesterday and probably am still not allowed to be doing that just yet.