I’m soooo tired. I hardly slept at all last night. My back is still killing me – feels like I have a small angry colony of ants on my shoulder blades. Which feels as awful as it sounds. I can’t describe it very well actually…. it’s almost like my nerves are overloaded and can’t decide what sort of pain sensation it’s dealing with, and it feels like a burning, stinging sort of pain with a heavy ache from what must be a small elephant or a largish Mondrian-Yellow Pain Monkey (you pick) sitting on my shoulders.
And I’m still feeling uber dopey from the drugs. It’s pretty bad when you feel you have to lay off the drugs in order to go for a drive. But I’m worried if I keep taking the pain killers the doctor gave me that I’m going to end up having another damn accident because it’s making me feel so out of it. I’m not used to the codeine I think, and almost as soon as I take it, I feel drowsy and can feel my mental acuity (what little I have 🙂 slipping away almost immediately, which is making it rather difficult to focus or concentrate on anything. :S
I had a very quiet week, and a mostly pretty quiet, restful sort of weekend, but I’m just not feeling any better…. my wrists are still sore, which is exacerbated from typing this, and I’m having trouble sitting still long enough to get online and see what my friends are up to. I’ve had to harrass other people to brush my hair (Angel really, really sucks at it) cos holding my arms above my head makes me go ICK…. and my toes are still getting intermittently numb.
Yeeessss. This concerns me considerably to be honest. One shouldn’t have numb toes as a general rule and preferably not as a barometer of other intensity of back pain. The physio and the doctor have said this is from the back being in spasm and likely affecting the nerves to the lower extremeties, and that it should calm down… but it’s been a week, and my toes are still numb, so how long?? On the up side….doesn’t one love being able to use the word ‘spasmodic’ in every day conversation? Why…. there’s no felicicity in the world such as being able to say ‘spasmodic’ on a daily basis! 🙁
I think it’s back to the doctor for me this morning.
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