Dear Diary: 29 April 2022

7:42am: I’ve been “up and out of bed” since just after 6am. I already know it’s not going to be a good day!

There were some KFC related issues last night, which caused me significant stress. An otherwise “average” day ended with stress and related pain, and a latish night and significant pain and difficulty getting comfortable in bed, and sleep around 1am. At 5:30am I woke up and just could not get back to sleep and was still in pain so got up, had my Semaglutide and then waited till I could have something else. Torn between Co-codamol for the pain and ASDA Hot Lemon flu remedy for the sniffles, sore throat, etc. In the end I went with the Hot Lemon but may move onto the Co-codamol later!

In significant pain today. Lower back is painful, and my legs have all kinds of issues today. Backs of my upper legs are really aching and its “uncomfortable” to even sit atm. My ankles have both been throbbing too – not just like “my joints hurt” but more like “when did I smash a hammer into my ankles??” kind of pain. Shoulder pain doesn’t help, and my feet are tender to the touch and hurt to walk on. As typing this – fingers in both hands are tingling/painful too left thumb muscle just started throbbing.

The pain is going to make it extremely hard to concentrate during the day.

The only trigger I can think of is the “difficult” evening last night which was an emotional “challenge”.

Going to be a struggle to make it through the day today – and its only 9am now.

I will no doubt add to this post through the day but wanted to record this early.

1:10pm: Pain hasn’t subsided all day. Time for some co-codamol I think. Also upping the chart for today to 60% peak for pain as its very widespread. Mostly lower pain – legs feet. Hurts to stand up – but then again it hurts to sit down.

Have had several times today where I have had significant memory issues when trying to remember names. They are there – but my brain just isn’t working and can’t retrieve them. It’s very frustrating to say the least!

Standing up has been an issue today – unable to think clearly. Not much better sitting down, but with work and having to put away the food I ordered from Amazon Fresh – I only managed to have 30 mins to lay in bed at lunchtime. Apart from that I’ve been up since 6am. Still feel “woozy” even just sitting here.

I did a little reading earlier – and managed a whole three pages before it started being too much effort. Plan to take some of these books when I go away on holiday but suspect I won’t get much reading done.

I am really looking forward to the holiday, but at the same time I am worried that I will ruin it for my wife as I have no idea how much I will be able to do – much less than I would like, I am sure!