4/12/24

 Friday, April 12, 2024

Lights out before 10, pss at ?, 1:23, still awake at 1:54, 3:20, unable to sleep, lights on at 3:35.

Pain, etc.  I took 1,000 mg. of Tylenol around 9, coated my right hand with Diclofenac, and Geri applied 2 Lidocaine patches on my left shoulder.  Overnight, I wore the thumb splint over my right hand which was OK during the night but my hand was very painful, like 8/10, once I was awake at 3:30.  It stayed very painful for hours.  It's been a very difficult morning with the hand and wrist pain, even standing up from the chair has been a challenge.  I tried my booster cushion on the TV room glider but it's too unstable to make getting up 'easy', and also on the recliner in the sunroom, which, with a firm pillow behind me and the booster beneath me, is the easiest chair to get up from.  The right hand/wrist was so bad I couldn't lift the TV remote without sharp intense pain.  I took my watch off my right wrist and put it on the left.  I've been using my sturdy, homemade, walking stick, holding on with both hands, for support.  I've become a pathetic, semi-crippled old man.  

I ordered another booster cushion for the sunroom recliner.  It was delivered from Amazon in just a few hours, like 3 hours.  Amazing.  I also ordered a long-sleeved Henley tee shirt, letting me pull the shirt off without lifting my left arm.  It should arrive tomorrow.

I'm grateful that I was able to get out and run errands this afternoon.

Errands.  I felt pretty good at 4:30 p.m. and went out on errands.  I picked up safflower seeds and 2 suet cakes, filled my gas tanks, and picked up muffins and apple fritters at MetroMarket.  It was great getting out and being active.  I must not have looked so great though because the Knights of Columbus lady collecting money for the intellectually disabled asked if she could help me into the MetroMarket.  The clerk at Wild Birds Unlimited asked if he could carry my purchases to my car. 

The middle of the night and morning were awful;  The afternoon was mostly great.  It's become my normal.