Sunday, November 28, 2004
Not a bad day really though the last couple of days have had their ups and downs - I had such a good day on Thursday but then I paid for it on Friday with a backache ALL day and night, and then a couple of nasty hypos - then yesterday evening as I was getting gready to go upstairs to bed I tripped over the Christmas light rope cable and fell on to my knee - not only that but I bent my sore toe at the same time - I hit the floor pretty hard - and got a carpet burn on my “good” knee which bled all over the place - I was quite shaken up and had to sit on the floor for a while before I was able to get up - my knee was really painful and I bumped myself all over on the way down - My ankle felt a bit wobbly too and I was dreading standing up for fear I had broken something - my knee was the most painful - but funnily enough when I woke up this morning the swelling had gone DOWN on my knee - it seems that the bash the knee joint got actually released some of the fluid that has been collecting there for a while now.
As I got up to bed last night I set my dialysis off and then I did my blood sugar - it was 18!!! I couldn’t work out why it was so high and so I went to give myself an adjustment dose and discovered I wasn’t wearing my pump!! I had had a bath earlier in the evening and taken it off - and then I had completely forgotten to put it back on! So I had spent the entire evening with no insulin - and now I had started my dialysis with no insulin either - I had to stop it during my initial drain and then take my sore legs and body back downstairs to get my pump and another needle - which is when I discovered that I don’t have ANY more connecting tubes - so I need to order some tomorrow and just keep my fingers crossed that I won’t need one until they arrive in the post! I adjusted my dose ok - and I thought it had worked well as I did a few more tests t o make sure it came down - but hten I woke at around 4 am and I just felt weird so I tested it ageain and I was now 2.5 = so it had swung to the other extreme - I had some lucozade by the bed so I just swigged about half a bottle and drifted off again - but I did manage to keep an eye on my blood sugars and so they didn’t swing back up again and by this morning it was nicely back to 6 mmols/litre. I had been pretty good today and kept my blood sugars pretty low all day - even had a bit of a hypo this evening. Of course it didn’t help that my back and legs are painful today so I took one of my Tramadol long lasting tablets and so I have been feeling a bit spaced out all afternoon.
Dagan, Angela and Rolo all cam e over this afternoon - it didn’t go so well this time as Mum went to meet them at East Town Park and Ash refused to get out of the car - I stayed at home and cooked dinner - only cottage pie this weekend - anyway mum went for a walk with the others who had invited a couple of their friends to go walking too- and then when mum got back after one circuit of the park they decided to walk for another circuit - never mind that I was cooking dinner! So mum got home with Ash - and she was in a bit of a bad mood because he had been naughty - and well she was starving and dinner was ready but the rest of the dinner party wasn’t here to eat it - we were just getting ready to text them and as k if we should go ahead and eat ours when they arrived - minus their friends which was a relief as I wasn’t sure my cottage pie would stretch to two more people! Rolo, bless her spent the time trying to get Ash to play with her but he wasn’t interested - it’s not very easy to explain to her that he is just a miserable old man. She is definitely getting bigger and stronger now - and seems to be more of a grown up doggie shape that a chubby little puppy shape any more. I had bought her and Ash a shoe chew each when I was in Cambridge and so Ash sat and guarded his while Rolo had great fun chewing hers and playing with it, throwing it up in the air and then pouncing on it - I enjoyed watching her chew it almost as much as she enjoyed chewing it I think!
They didn’t stay too long - they tried to get Ash to go for a walk one more time but he just wasn’t interested, I think he is just being lazy and just prefers to be asleep inside in the warm, than out walking in the cold - and I’m sure the thought of Rolo jumping all over him isn’t that much of a bonus either. He’s such big girlie wuss.
I must get my dialysis started early tonight as I need to be at eth hospital quite early tomorrow - I hope they manage to get a line in fairly easily, as I just don’t feel like being a pin cushion at the moment. I am a bit worried about my toe which I fell on and bent last night - the nail is definitely looking loose (which is was before I fell on it) but I am sure it will catch on something and I’ll end up ripping it off - I have an appointment with Chiropody on the 17th December so maybe I will wait until then - there isn’t any obvious bruising or redness this morning so I think I am ok, I’ll just have to keep a close eye on it. This isn’t that easy as I can’t bend my knee properly to get a good look at my foot! What a mess! I am a walking (hobbling) disaster area!
Awww - ET is on the TV - but I think we will be turning over to watch 4400 at 9pm except I should go up and start my dialysis then - oh well I am sure I can tape it.
We bought a flashing rope light on Friday from Aldi - when I got home and tried it out it didn’t work! Luckily mu was off Saturday and so she took it back in and swapped it for me Saturday morning - when she got home I plugged it in straight away and it worked! It’s really quite bright - the idea is we are going to plug it in outside and use it along the path so I can see where I am going in the dark - at the moment I take my life in my hands every time I go out there - it’s so dark and I keep falling off the path onto the grass, and mum is getting really fed up with my whinging. Today I bought a plastic box with wheels in Focus so I can wheel the dialysis bags ito the bathroom by myself without having to wait for mum to carry them in - of course this means that now I’ll have to empty the bags myself where as mum always did it for me before.
I had a massive tidy up yesterday and today we started putting gup our Christmas decorations - we usually put them up on the 1st December for the start of Advent - but I am reliably informed that Advent is today according to the Bible - something to do with having 4 Sundays before Christmas - just another excuse to start decorating even earlier than usual I think…. Still I love this time of year - we have the tree up but not fully decorate yet and a few other decorations but no card ribbons or kitchen lights yet. I’ve had my fairy lights on for over a week in my room - but I have a few more things to put up. I feel like I am in a real clearing out mood - I am hoping to clear space in the yellow room for the dialysis fluid - and then have my computer set up under the stairs - I hope the Unicare drivers won’t mind taking the boxes upstairs for me - that way I can get them to the machine by myself too - wow! I am getting all independent aren’t I?
I don’t think much else happened this weekend - oh, except Dr Dinneen left the country….. sob.
It would be nice to hear that I have a job interview in the post tomorrow - I am thinking I may even get my hair cut in the afternoon if they can fit me in - I had decided to grow it again but then I kept catching sight of my hair in mirrors when I was shopping on Thursday and it looked hideous so I figured I should keep it short and neat and avoid that horrible in-between phase - which I seem to be in permanently. At least if my hair is short you will be able to see my new earrings. Then the next thing I have to fix is my teeth. Oh and get my new shoes so I can walk without being too lop-sided.
Ok, now it is time for me to go to bed - not that I will sleep - I have some puzzles to do - my, what an exciting life I lead.
As I got up to bed last night I set my dialysis off and then I did my blood sugar - it was 18!!! I couldn’t work out why it was so high and so I went to give myself an adjustment dose and discovered I wasn’t wearing my pump!! I had had a bath earlier in the evening and taken it off - and then I had completely forgotten to put it back on! So I had spent the entire evening with no insulin - and now I had started my dialysis with no insulin either - I had to stop it during my initial drain and then take my sore legs and body back downstairs to get my pump and another needle - which is when I discovered that I don’t have ANY more connecting tubes - so I need to order some tomorrow and just keep my fingers crossed that I won’t need one until they arrive in the post! I adjusted my dose ok - and I thought it had worked well as I did a few more tests t o make sure it came down - but hten I woke at around 4 am and I just felt weird so I tested it ageain and I was now 2.5 = so it had swung to the other extreme - I had some lucozade by the bed so I just swigged about half a bottle and drifted off again - but I did manage to keep an eye on my blood sugars and so they didn’t swing back up again and by this morning it was nicely back to 6 mmols/litre. I had been pretty good today and kept my blood sugars pretty low all day - even had a bit of a hypo this evening. Of course it didn’t help that my back and legs are painful today so I took one of my Tramadol long lasting tablets and so I have been feeling a bit spaced out all afternoon.
Dagan, Angela and Rolo all cam e over this afternoon - it didn’t go so well this time as Mum went to meet them at East Town Park and Ash refused to get out of the car - I stayed at home and cooked dinner - only cottage pie this weekend - anyway mum went for a walk with the others who had invited a couple of their friends to go walking too- and then when mum got back after one circuit of the park they decided to walk for another circuit - never mind that I was cooking dinner! So mum got home with Ash - and she was in a bit of a bad mood because he had been naughty - and well she was starving and dinner was ready but the rest of the dinner party wasn’t here to eat it - we were just getting ready to text them and as k if we should go ahead and eat ours when they arrived - minus their friends which was a relief as I wasn’t sure my cottage pie would stretch to two more people! Rolo, bless her spent the time trying to get Ash to play with her but he wasn’t interested - it’s not very easy to explain to her that he is just a miserable old man. She is definitely getting bigger and stronger now - and seems to be more of a grown up doggie shape that a chubby little puppy shape any more. I had bought her and Ash a shoe chew each when I was in Cambridge and so Ash sat and guarded his while Rolo had great fun chewing hers and playing with it, throwing it up in the air and then pouncing on it - I enjoyed watching her chew it almost as much as she enjoyed chewing it I think!
They didn’t stay too long - they tried to get Ash to go for a walk one more time but he just wasn’t interested, I think he is just being lazy and just prefers to be asleep inside in the warm, than out walking in the cold - and I’m sure the thought of Rolo jumping all over him isn’t that much of a bonus either. He’s such big girlie wuss.
I must get my dialysis started early tonight as I need to be at eth hospital quite early tomorrow - I hope they manage to get a line in fairly easily, as I just don’t feel like being a pin cushion at the moment. I am a bit worried about my toe which I fell on and bent last night - the nail is definitely looking loose (which is was before I fell on it) but I am sure it will catch on something and I’ll end up ripping it off - I have an appointment with Chiropody on the 17th December so maybe I will wait until then - there isn’t any obvious bruising or redness this morning so I think I am ok, I’ll just have to keep a close eye on it. This isn’t that easy as I can’t bend my knee properly to get a good look at my foot! What a mess! I am a walking (hobbling) disaster area!
Awww - ET is on the TV - but I think we will be turning over to watch 4400 at 9pm except I should go up and start my dialysis then - oh well I am sure I can tape it.
We bought a flashing rope light on Friday from Aldi - when I got home and tried it out it didn’t work! Luckily mu was off Saturday and so she took it back in and swapped it for me Saturday morning - when she got home I plugged it in straight away and it worked! It’s really quite bright - the idea is we are going to plug it in outside and use it along the path so I can see where I am going in the dark - at the moment I take my life in my hands every time I go out there - it’s so dark and I keep falling off the path onto the grass, and mum is getting really fed up with my whinging. Today I bought a plastic box with wheels in Focus so I can wheel the dialysis bags ito the bathroom by myself without having to wait for mum to carry them in - of course this means that now I’ll have to empty the bags myself where as mum always did it for me before.
I had a massive tidy up yesterday and today we started putting gup our Christmas decorations - we usually put them up on the 1st December for the start of Advent - but I am reliably informed that Advent is today according to the Bible - something to do with having 4 Sundays before Christmas - just another excuse to start decorating even earlier than usual I think…. Still I love this time of year - we have the tree up but not fully decorate yet and a few other decorations but no card ribbons or kitchen lights yet. I’ve had my fairy lights on for over a week in my room - but I have a few more things to put up. I feel like I am in a real clearing out mood - I am hoping to clear space in the yellow room for the dialysis fluid - and then have my computer set up under the stairs - I hope the Unicare drivers won’t mind taking the boxes upstairs for me - that way I can get them to the machine by myself too - wow! I am getting all independent aren’t I?
I don’t think much else happened this weekend - oh, except Dr Dinneen left the country….. sob.
It would be nice to hear that I have a job interview in the post tomorrow - I am thinking I may even get my hair cut in the afternoon if they can fit me in - I had decided to grow it again but then I kept catching sight of my hair in mirrors when I was shopping on Thursday and it looked hideous so I figured I should keep it short and neat and avoid that horrible in-between phase - which I seem to be in permanently. At least if my hair is short you will be able to see my new earrings. Then the next thing I have to fix is my teeth. Oh and get my new shoes so I can walk without being too lop-sided.
Ok, now it is time for me to go to bed - not that I will sleep - I have some puzzles to do - my, what an exciting life I lead.
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