Current mood:

thoughtful

Annoyances
Recovery is continuing well; I do need to remember to do my exercises three times a day so that I get in the habit. I'm continuing to put more weight on my left leg and feeling pretty good. In fact, I've pretty much switched to regular Tylenol (acetaminophen). Part of the reason for that is the first annoyance I'll mention:

1. Wednesday and Thursday I had difficulty sleeping. It had seemed to me that since I returned home from the hospital, the hydrocodone was not making me drowsy. Wednesday and Thursday evenings, I felt twitchy rather than sleepy -- so much so on Thursday that I finally got up and moved to the couch, staying awake nearly all night so that I wouldn't disturb Steve. At 6 a.m. I went back to bed and slept a few hours, and then called the doctor's office. Trying to explain the problem, I felt like a three-year-old having a meltdown (you know, nearly sobbing "I do-ho-ho-hon't WANNA go to sleeeeeep" except of course I did). The nurse didn't think that it was the same kind of "bounceback" that can happen with antihistamines, where they make you alert and twitchy rather than drowsy, but I still suspect it may have been something like that. Got a prescription, and had wonderful sleep last night. I feel a little like I'm taking a tour of the Wonderful World of Prescription Drugs.

2. The other annoyance -- more of an alarm, perhaps -- was that on the Sunday after I got home, I was sitting with feet on floor, or up and walking, quite a bit. In the evening, I noticed that my left foot felt tingly -- not quite as if it were asleep. Took off my sock, and yikes! there was a foot-shaped water balloon. I called Mercy and got a call back from the doctor on call, who said that it was quite normal, and that elevating my feet above my head would get my foot back to normal. And so it did. The next day I had my nice normal footsie back, just a little plumper than usual, with a fat ankle. The swelling lessened over the next few days as I kept my feet elevated whenever I was sitting.