total incapacitation

I have been sleeping most of the day. My ankle has been hurting really bad and the only time I left my room was to have something to eat or go to the bathroom. I know I am super dehydrated because I haven’t really had anything to drink most of the day. I had a glass of juice with my supper and that is all I can really recall drinking. It’s late now so I don’t want to drink anything because I will be up all night peeing.

Today was my brother in law’s birthday. I didn’t go to it because I just couldn’t make the stairs. When my mother called to see where I was, she was shocked to know I was in pain because “it didn’t look like it when I got up this morning”. Pain can flare at any time. I don’t have to justify it to anyone. I swear they don’t believe me sometimes, but that is their problem not mine. And even though I spent the day in bed, I am still hurting.

I have not heard anything from the author yet. It’s been almost 24 hrs. I hope I hear from her tomorrow. I better hear from her tomorrow! I have a busy week. Tomorrow I have my pcp appointment, Tuesday I have my father’s appointment and Wed/Thursday is my therapy appointment. I really don’t want to see my PCP tomorrow. I gained some weight back because I wasn’t careful. Plus my mother made cookies, my kryptonite. I have been eating them almost all day even though it killed me to go down the stairs.

I am not taking my meds tonight. Only pill I will take is my birth control. I forgot to count out my meds for the week but that is kind of hard to do when you can’t stand for longer than ten minutes. I should have done it last night when I couldn’t sleep but I didn’t think of it. I usually do it on Sunday mornings when I wake up but today was an off day for me. I woke up late and was in pain and the day kind of got away from me. I read my Lawrence Block books that I bought yesterday and then slept most of the day. Not like it did any good for me. I know it has to do with the weather changes. It’s no longer twenty degrees out so my pain has to increase with the temp increase. I was never like this before my back surgery. Sure, rain hurt my knee whenever it rained but nothing like this. This is total incapacitation. I hate it because there is nothing I can do but rest. If I try to do something, I am rewarded with pain. So I just lay low until the weather equalizes and stays the same for a few days. Tomorrow is going to be interesting.

any thoughts?