That was some of the most messed up sleep ever. I can’t even explain it. Constant wake ups, the weirdest dreams. I just kept falling asleep and having super weird dreams over and over. I couldn’t wait to get up just to end those crazy dreams. I wonder if that’s a side effect of the Lyrica or quitting it. I went straight to the caffeine today. De-zombify myself before I do anything else today. Hopped in the shower and felt good! I was almost dancing! I guess I get more time from these injections after all. Took advantage and did a church walk with the cane. Pretty rough actually, but glad to have done it. I’ll try more of those as the day goes on. Appetite feels slightly better, but there still isn’t much there. Put on an ice pack and went for a church walk and felt so good I turned it into a short walk. Used the cane for about 2/3 of it. Most of it felt good. I don’t feel like I’m immediately paying for it. Eclipse totality is in 25 minutes and I’m actually capable of getting out of bed and going outside! Amazing!
These are great results from the recent injections. This restores my confidence that this is the right spot to treat, and that I should continue trying. I’m wondering now if I should try to get the RF ablation out of pocket right now. The procedures with Loyola are in July and August. All the way to the end of the summer. It feels like planning to fail waiting that long. I don’t know if there are any risks to paying for it now. Would my insurance not cover it? Any issues doing it 2 times close-ish together? I had it done on my SI joints close together. It only lasted a few weeks back then. That’s another reason to pay for it now – so I can see if it fails, or doesn’t last as long as it should. But then again, insurance wouldn’t necessarily know about it, and they would make me repeat it several times anyway before a surgery would happen.
I was feeling pretty stagnant for the last couple hours. Decided to break it up with a walk – with my headphones. I hit the point where I could extend it, and I wanted to, but I held back. I won’t do longer walks until I can walk without the cane. I’ve put myself in too much pain over the last few months just from walking. I need to get more miles and more confidence under my belt before I do that. I’ll just try a third short walk later. Glad to have even thought about it though! Got that third walk in, albeit pretty difficult. Just took some ibupofen and have an ice pack on in the hope that I didn’t overdo it and screw myself for tomorrow. And can I PLEASE get some fucking decent sleep tonight?!