Sleeping in the bed has worked out great. Between the gradual recovery and the Ambien, I've slept well for the past three nights. That said, I'm still battling this weird chills/sweats/dizziness bug or whatever it is. To make matters worse, mckennl is suffering from some variation of said malady ( Read more... )

Awright. Ambien rocks. I slept for a full 8 hours last night on the couch, woke up without feeling groggy, and felt so good that I snagged another hour or two of sleep in bed. So -- big shout out to Ambien. Thank you, you wonder of modern medicine ( Read more... )

I was all happy that I slept on Friday night and then on Saturday night, I couldn't sleep. I've been reducing the Ultracet intake drastically as it's not really doing much of anything positive. Sunday night I took far too many OTC sleeping pills and...wait...guess...that's right! I couldn't sleep. On Monday night, I tried a different OTC ( Read more... )

Saturday, Apil 2, 2005For the first time in 3 weeks, I slept for EIGHT consecutive hours! I’m fairly certain that it has something to do with the veritable pharmacy that I swallowed last night at bedtime, but this is such a major milestone that I don’t care. Since the accident, the longest that I’d been able to sleep for was four hours. After ( Read more... )

Friday, April 1, 2005

Spent 6 hours physically in the office today. Totally beat.

Daily Drug Intake: 8 Ultracet, 2 Skelaxin, 1 Percocet, 3 Excedrin PM

Monday, March 28, 2005What I neglected to mention in the last installment is that the reduction of the Percocet intake left me in pretty much continuous pain on Sunday. Liz got rightfully tired of dealing with the cranky patient and ordered me to call the doctor’s office on Monday and beg for more drugs. The nurse there agreed to give me this ( Read more... )

Wednesday March 23, 2005 - Sunday, March 27 2005On Wednesday, I started doing the tiny little exercises that they’d shown me. Very simple - lean forward and rest good arm on solid surface. Move injured arm in little circles, clockwise and counter-clockwise, move to the left, to the right, toward the body, & away from the body. This was all ( Read more... )

Friday, March 18, 2005Friday. Ick. Shoot me now. This is worse than having my gall bladder out ( Read more... )

Thursday, March 17, 2005Thursday was surgery day. Surgery was scheduled for 1:15pm so we had to get there at 11:15pm. No food after midnight the night before. Clear fluids okay in the morning and most drugs okay, but no multi-vitamins. I took a Percocet when I woke up at 8am and then another at 10am (latest that I could take anything before the ( Read more... )

Saturday, March 12, 2005 - Wednesday, March 16, 2005

When xtinkerbelle visits on Saturday, I’m still a mess. She learns to adjust to the fact that while she’s talking to me, I’ll randomly flinch and grimace. Other than the problematic shoulder, we have a delightful visit. On Sunday, both weasels happily hop up into crates in the back of xtinkerbelle’s truck and wave ( Read more... )