Dark and Quiet
The back corner of our home, which lately has been bright and filled with the clutter, sounds and smells of construction, is dark and quiet today. I suspect things will remain this way for the rest of the week and through the weekend as I try to recover from yet another bout of poor health.
I awoke feeling like I had been hit by a train. My bones hurt... "hurt"... that word doesn't even come close to accurately describing how my bones feel. My joints also hurt to the same level as my bone pain. My spine is inflamed and I can feel every injury my spine has ever endured... and, believe me, these injuries were many, severe and extensive leaving me with two herniated disks, four bulging disks, six compressed disks, two areas with spinal stenosis, osteophytosis, and a broken up disk and vertebra in my cervical spine. These injuries have left me almost two inches shorter and in pain every day. Now, add in all my bone and joint pain and this is what I felt as I awoke this morning.
I'm not going to get into details here but as I awoke more this morning and took a quick inventory of my health, I realized that I am experiencing enough recovery-type symptoms that I probably suffered anaphylaxis in my sleep and my body is now in recovery mode. These recovery-type symptoms are no picnic either!
Over the past couple of days, I've also been experiencing some telltale signs of increasing mast cell degranulation so this deterioration of my health doesn't really come as much of a surprise. As a result, I have been taking some extra medications over the past couple of days, but apparently, not enough.
This morning, once I realized my body is trying to recover from mast cell degranulation and anaphylaxis, I grabbed my emergency medications as well as my usual morning medications. These emergency medications, however, will mean no work getting accomplished in the house for the next couple of days. It is time for rest and recovery. Compounding this is the fact that these emergency medications make my fatigue far worse, my vision worse and make my cognitive issues far worse.
So, for now, the back corner of our home which lately has been buzzing with renovation activity will remain dark and quiet... mirroring my current health.
I awoke feeling like I had been hit by a train. My bones hurt... "hurt"... that word doesn't even come close to accurately describing how my bones feel. My joints also hurt to the same level as my bone pain. My spine is inflamed and I can feel every injury my spine has ever endured... and, believe me, these injuries were many, severe and extensive leaving me with two herniated disks, four bulging disks, six compressed disks, two areas with spinal stenosis, osteophytosis, and a broken up disk and vertebra in my cervical spine. These injuries have left me almost two inches shorter and in pain every day. Now, add in all my bone and joint pain and this is what I felt as I awoke this morning.
I'm not going to get into details here but as I awoke more this morning and took a quick inventory of my health, I realized that I am experiencing enough recovery-type symptoms that I probably suffered anaphylaxis in my sleep and my body is now in recovery mode. These recovery-type symptoms are no picnic either!
Over the past couple of days, I've also been experiencing some telltale signs of increasing mast cell degranulation so this deterioration of my health doesn't really come as much of a surprise. As a result, I have been taking some extra medications over the past couple of days, but apparently, not enough.
This morning, once I realized my body is trying to recover from mast cell degranulation and anaphylaxis, I grabbed my emergency medications as well as my usual morning medications. These emergency medications, however, will mean no work getting accomplished in the house for the next couple of days. It is time for rest and recovery. Compounding this is the fact that these emergency medications make my fatigue far worse, my vision worse and make my cognitive issues far worse.
So, for now, the back corner of our home which lately has been buzzing with renovation activity will remain dark and quiet... mirroring my current health.
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