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canyonwalker) wrote2024-02-21 10:43 am
canyonwalker) wrote2024-02-21 10:43 am
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Now only sick half-time
Since yesterday morning I've been feeling better than I was this weekend. Ugh, this sickness is kicking my butt, though. And it's the second time. I just got over a similar sickness a week before getting sick again!
Similar to last time it looks like there's going to be a daily pattern. I tend to feel mostly-better in the morning. Perhaps sleeping overnight helps reset things. A hot shower to start the day helps clear things out, too. Then sometime around mid-afternoon things head south again. The prescriptions I got yesterday are preventing the worst of the symptoms I experienced this weekend. But last night I hit the wall at about 8pm and went to bed early.
Going to bed early isn't exactly a panacea, unfortunately. I'm waking several times throughout the night. Usually I can get back to sleep right away. But kind of as a consequence of falling asleep early I'm also waking up early. Like, after 5am I just toss and turn in bed, not really able to get any additional sleep.
You might think, "Oh! Just get up early and be productive, then." Yeah, no. It doesn't work that way. Just because my body won't sleep anymore after 5am doesn't mean it's actually ready to be awake at 5am. I get to spend two hours in a zombie twilight where my body is saying, "We're done sleeping," while my brain is saying, "Well, we're not ready to be awake yet." Ugh.
"Zombie twilight" describes how I feel by late afternoon, too. I'm awake— as in, not asleep—but I can't bring myself to focus on a task more difficult than mindlessly surfing the web or maybe watching TV. Over the weekend I thought, "Hey, with canceling our trip to Phoenix I'll have lots of time to catch up on my blog!" Yeah, no. I don't even have the energy or mental focus to blog.
Similar to last time it looks like there's going to be a daily pattern. I tend to feel mostly-better in the morning. Perhaps sleeping overnight helps reset things. A hot shower to start the day helps clear things out, too. Then sometime around mid-afternoon things head south again. The prescriptions I got yesterday are preventing the worst of the symptoms I experienced this weekend. But last night I hit the wall at about 8pm and went to bed early.
Going to bed early isn't exactly a panacea, unfortunately. I'm waking several times throughout the night. Usually I can get back to sleep right away. But kind of as a consequence of falling asleep early I'm also waking up early. Like, after 5am I just toss and turn in bed, not really able to get any additional sleep.
You might think, "Oh! Just get up early and be productive, then." Yeah, no. It doesn't work that way. Just because my body won't sleep anymore after 5am doesn't mean it's actually ready to be awake at 5am. I get to spend two hours in a zombie twilight where my body is saying, "We're done sleeping," while my brain is saying, "Well, we're not ready to be awake yet." Ugh.
"Zombie twilight" describes how I feel by late afternoon, too. I'm awake— as in, not asleep—but I can't bring myself to focus on a task more difficult than mindlessly surfing the web or maybe watching TV. Over the weekend I thought, "Hey, with canceling our trip to Phoenix I'll have lots of time to catch up on my blog!" Yeah, no. I don't even have the energy or mental focus to blog.