Chapter 122 - Recovering
She sleeps. She has not showered yet and has returned to bed after taking 2 Panamax. After sleeping well last night she woke with pains in both legs. She referred to the pains as "sharp, fine pain. Between knees and feet, in the centres of the legs". "Not in the muscles?" I queried. "No, up & down there" as she rubbed a shin. The pains were there while seated, not moving. She circumnavigated the kitchen table slowly several times before deciding on bed at 8:40am. She had had her usual breakfast cereal earlier.
On Saturday last we drove north to see our youngest granddaughter for her birthday. Just for a couple of hours when family outlaws were not present, so we had an enjoyable quiet time with the kids. We left home about 10:30, stopped for a little junk food, arrived early afternoon then took the family to the local pub bistro for dinner at 6pm. She only had fish & chips, then a slice of cheese cake. A lemon squash. The timing of such evening meals disturbs her meds so the usual 7pm CR & Inderal were delayed until 8:30 as we were leaving to return home.
Sunday morning she suffered. She woke at 7am from sleep following her normal 6am meds with violent shakes, a dull headach and the sweats. She dozed again before rising for a shower about 9:30am. Drying & dressing were no problem to her. By 11:45 her headache had lessened to that "thick head" feeling, as if she had been hit in the head. I thought she sounded rather stuffy in the nose. Her throat was rough she said. A little after midday she needed to lay down and woke close to 2pm in time for her meds. Her afternoon & early evening were filled completing questions for next Tuesday's KYB meeting. Questions requiring a literal interpretation of the texts expecting conformist answers. She struggled to understand. Tension building, stress inducing. Last Tuesday she did not attend the meeting; a rainy morning, she was afraid of walking on the sloping wet path beside the church to the hall at the rear. The woman who runs the meetings rang later to tell her that she & her husband were soaked by the rain; I suppose some sort of self sacrificing risk at their octogenarian time of life for which they may have felt blessed.
So what event/s during the last few days induced her current difficulties? Four hours of my driving, seeing the kids, dining out, delayed meds, stress from completing the KYB study? I don't know. I know you don't; all you who see her and possibly wonder why she looks so well.
The 2am Sinemet CR remains off her meds menu. Perhaps she has been stiffer since discontinuing that dose.
She is still sleeping at 10am so I must wake her for her 10am meds. The routine rolls on.
On Saturday last we drove north to see our youngest granddaughter for her birthday. Just for a couple of hours when family outlaws were not present, so we had an enjoyable quiet time with the kids. We left home about 10:30, stopped for a little junk food, arrived early afternoon then took the family to the local pub bistro for dinner at 6pm. She only had fish & chips, then a slice of cheese cake. A lemon squash. The timing of such evening meals disturbs her meds so the usual 7pm CR & Inderal were delayed until 8:30 as we were leaving to return home.
Sunday morning she suffered. She woke at 7am from sleep following her normal 6am meds with violent shakes, a dull headach and the sweats. She dozed again before rising for a shower about 9:30am. Drying & dressing were no problem to her. By 11:45 her headache had lessened to that "thick head" feeling, as if she had been hit in the head. I thought she sounded rather stuffy in the nose. Her throat was rough she said. A little after midday she needed to lay down and woke close to 2pm in time for her meds. Her afternoon & early evening were filled completing questions for next Tuesday's KYB meeting. Questions requiring a literal interpretation of the texts expecting conformist answers. She struggled to understand. Tension building, stress inducing. Last Tuesday she did not attend the meeting; a rainy morning, she was afraid of walking on the sloping wet path beside the church to the hall at the rear. The woman who runs the meetings rang later to tell her that she & her husband were soaked by the rain; I suppose some sort of self sacrificing risk at their octogenarian time of life for which they may have felt blessed.
So what event/s during the last few days induced her current difficulties? Four hours of my driving, seeing the kids, dining out, delayed meds, stress from completing the KYB study? I don't know. I know you don't; all you who see her and possibly wonder why she looks so well.
The 2am Sinemet CR remains off her meds menu. Perhaps she has been stiffer since discontinuing that dose.
She is still sleeping at 10am so I must wake her for her 10am meds. The routine rolls on.
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