The morning after Day 1's treatment
I went to bed about 9 p.m. Sunday night and around 3:30 this morning I awakened with chills. It was so cold I found myself all scrunched up and I wondered, "Is this why people ache after the shot, because they froze the night before?" I cut the heating blanket up to about5 and stuck my head under the covers like I was camping out in a sleeping back on a cold, early spring night at Ripshin. It didn't work; I was still cold.
It was the kind of cold where no matter how warm the blanket is your skin is still cold to the touch and right down to the muscles -- a deep kind of cold. I had heard people say they got the chills so bad their teeth chattered and decided I was one click away from have the chatters. I kept thinking, "If Donna gets up for something I'm going to ask her to cut my heating blanket all the way up." I was too cold to stick my arm back out from under the covers. She didn't get up any time soon, so I braved an arm and cranked it up to about 8.
The chills passed after about an hour or so and it wasn't long before I was burning up.
With apologies to my female friends, I have to wonder if that's something of what menopause is like.
I don't think I ever did anything more than doze on and off after that and I finally arose a little after 7 a.m., muscles aching like I had been chopping wood the day before. Still, thus far I don't feel as poorly as I expected; just kind of achy, spacey and slow. Earlier, I felt a headache coming on, but it subsided after I ate something.
At 8 a.m., I took my third dose of Rebetol and an augmentin.
In keeping with my treatment plan, I walked and prayed for about 20 minutes, but when I got back to the house I was beat. My lower back hurt and I decided to take it a little slower the rest of the day. I went through the chills again and cranked the heat up to 74; later, I was burning up.
Looks like that's going to be something of a pattern.
A little after 3 I felt it best to try and lay down for about an hour. I'm not used to having to take a nap; I never was one who could do that. But I felt that if I didn't I would drop.
Praising God and thankful for prayers from my sisters and brothers in Christ.
It was the kind of cold where no matter how warm the blanket is your skin is still cold to the touch and right down to the muscles -- a deep kind of cold. I had heard people say they got the chills so bad their teeth chattered and decided I was one click away from have the chatters. I kept thinking, "If Donna gets up for something I'm going to ask her to cut my heating blanket all the way up." I was too cold to stick my arm back out from under the covers. She didn't get up any time soon, so I braved an arm and cranked it up to about 8.
The chills passed after about an hour or so and it wasn't long before I was burning up.
With apologies to my female friends, I have to wonder if that's something of what menopause is like.
I don't think I ever did anything more than doze on and off after that and I finally arose a little after 7 a.m., muscles aching like I had been chopping wood the day before. Still, thus far I don't feel as poorly as I expected; just kind of achy, spacey and slow. Earlier, I felt a headache coming on, but it subsided after I ate something.
At 8 a.m., I took my third dose of Rebetol and an augmentin.
In keeping with my treatment plan, I walked and prayed for about 20 minutes, but when I got back to the house I was beat. My lower back hurt and I decided to take it a little slower the rest of the day. I went through the chills again and cranked the heat up to 74; later, I was burning up.
Looks like that's going to be something of a pattern.
A little after 3 I felt it best to try and lay down for about an hour. I'm not used to having to take a nap; I never was one who could do that. But I felt that if I didn't I would drop.
Praising God and thankful for prayers from my sisters and brothers in Christ.
posted by Pastor Buzz at 8:55 AM
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