Midwest AM

I hate days like this. The clouds have been around since yesterday. It looks like a dreary mid-west kind of day. It probably doesn't help that I tried to be good and go to bed early, but tossed and turned all night.

Sunday I woke up sometime in the early morning hours (didn't look at my clock to be sure), but the pain was back. Darn it! I repositioned my neck in hopes that would ease the pain and went back to sleep for a couple hours. But 8:45 came, and I was beginning to feel queasy from the pain. I picked myself up, dragged over to the couch. I watched a movie that my boyfriend stuffed in my bag last weekend, and then decided it was time to bring out the heavy painkiller guns. While I'm dealing from the effects of the pain medicine, I go back to bed and work on my self-hypnosis techniques for pain management.

Adira sensed something wasn't right, and came and laid next to my arm with her little head on my arm. And that's how I managed to get about two more hours of sleep.

Woke up and the pain was 90% gone. Enough to be able to situp and not have an overwhelming urge to puke. Talked to my boyfriend a bit via IM and told him what happened. Said he wished he could be there right now and take care of me (what a sweetie).

Pain got to 95% gone by early evening, but I still was tired and not very motivated to do much. Got another strand of lights on the tree (maybe tonight I'll finish). Made some food, and that was pretty much it. I guess it's okay since I got a lot done on Saturday.

Because of our two week timepoints for cultures, this week we're not going to be doing much of that. So my boss decided that this week would be a good time to clean up and reorganize the lab. Perhaps that's why I'm wearing a skirt today.