The effects of the steroids wore off quickly and my wide awake phase lasted one night, since then I've been pooped. It's Stan's fault again, well it's good to blame someone (or thing isn't it!). I get hooked up to the ATG (horse serum) around 4pm each day and it's then on a constant drip for 12 hours. That bit's ok, it's the fact that they have to monitor you for those 12 hours constantly doing blood pressure checks, temp checks and pulse checks every hour. It basically means you have very little sleep for the 4 days you're on the ATG. Since today (or rather tonight) is the last night, the sleeplessness has caught up with me. I can't wait to kick Stan out of my room at 5am, you're out of here my friend and hello to some sleep!
Good news, the hives have bogged off and not bothered to come back again, nasty little itchy blighters that they are. Instead I seem to have developed big red cheeks rather like Big Ears had in the Noddy stories. They come up as soon as the ATG starts and last most of the next day. Unique!
In my humble opinion I also seem to have taken on some rather equine like characteristics. I'm not sure if I should share them with you or not, but I think I will, I'm that kind of fillie. They are as follows:
1. I have developed the need to sleep in an upright position. My head hurts so much lying down, (it feels like Morocco Mole is in there with a Jack hammer trying to get out), I quite simply have to sit up and sleep (I use the term "sleep" loosely, far more of the odd 20 min doze). I think this is just due to sheer tiredness.
2. I am producing wee in seemingly horse like quantities (probably too much info there, sorry!). I'm sure the level of the Thames must have risen by at least a foot in the past 24 hours.
3. My tongue looks nowhere near normal, definitely a horse like thing going on there, it's a very odd colour & doesn't look human to me, that's for sure.
Moo has been texting frequently wanting to know how the hair growth is going. In fact, that's the first question all males seem to ask me. I'm thrilled to say there is nothing to report on that front yet (give me a chance, it's only been 3 days). It's a drug called cyclosporine that causes the hair to sprout and I'm only on a half does of that just now, wait til I'm on the full dose! Moo has offered to buy me a hedge trimmer to keep myself neet and tidy, very thoughtful. I said I was sure a bic razor would suffice but he doesn't think it will be up to the job. Thankyou Moo but you know what you can do with your hedge trimmer!! Thankyou also for the offer of bringing me a big juicy apple, naaaay thankyou (some polos wouldn't go amiss though!).
I did manage to learn a few card tricks yesterday, I was very impressed with myself, the only problem is that my goldfish sized memory doesn't seem capable of remembering how to do them for more than a few minutes so unless you walk in the room as I'm practising it's a bit of a let down folks. I will soldier on with them nonetheless. There is an upside to this - when I do get them right it's as much a surprise to me as it is to you:-D
Other things to report:
- Flower production is extensive in between snoozes
- Still no telly, remote controls are still on the blink. Tried batteries and that didn't work. Hope it's fixed in time for the olympics, I'll no doubt want to watch the equestrian events!
ps HUGE thankyou to everyone reading my blog. It's a treat to write and I hope you're enjoying it :-) xx
Hang in there girl: you are an inspiration to everyone who reads your brilliantly written story. Thinking of you.
ReplyDeleteThanks Meg, with a bit of luck it will maybe help someone else one day. It's probably just aswell I'm writing it all down or else the rate I'm going I'll have forgotten half of it!
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