Up all night swollen
Yup, my hands are swollen. I had to ice my hands after cooking dinner tonight. Pretty sad, but hey, that's arthritis. And I can't move my back hardly at all right now. And my neck has been stiff for days. I guess my neck was the first to feel the cool rainy weather that has rolled in. Don't get me wrong. I am completely happy that rainy days are back, I have plenty of arthritic days all summer too, the heat fatigue can be unbearable! During the day I thought I felt pretty good, and I had the mental energy to get some stuff done, but when it came down to it I was back to standing for only about half an hour before my back pain was just feeling like murder.
Hands are still swollen, and my knees are a bit too, I'm guessing my shoulder/back of neck may be as well, but I can't see behind me. LOL! I just feel swollen. Ladies, I think you'd know what I mean, that feeling during that time of the month, well, I feel it elsewhere in my muscles and joints.
I'm not complaining, just giving a progress report... and a prayer request that this storm that's looking to dump on us all week doesn't stick around or bring in another on the 11th. I'm really looking forward to the Arthritis Foundation's fundraiser walk, but I'm guessing most all of us will be suffering if it's weather like it is right now in a little over a week.
Wow, time is flying by quick! It seems like just a couple days ago I started fundraising, and here it is 8 days before the event and I've completely raised my goal twice, almost three times over, and I've been helping Kevin do his fundraising too! He still needs a few more sponsors if you are still thinking of helping.
So because I'm in too much physical discomfort to sleep I decided to see if accuweather agrees that I should be in this much pain... here is what the site showed me for the current arthritis index... yet again proof that my symptoms are so closely tied to the cycles of weather. So my plan now is to take some Tylenol PM to try to sleep, because if I don't get it now, it looks like it'll be even harder Friday night.
Hands are still swollen, and my knees are a bit too, I'm guessing my shoulder/back of neck may be as well, but I can't see behind me. LOL! I just feel swollen. Ladies, I think you'd know what I mean, that feeling during that time of the month, well, I feel it elsewhere in my muscles and joints.
I'm not complaining, just giving a progress report... and a prayer request that this storm that's looking to dump on us all week doesn't stick around or bring in another on the 11th. I'm really looking forward to the Arthritis Foundation's fundraiser walk, but I'm guessing most all of us will be suffering if it's weather like it is right now in a little over a week.
Wow, time is flying by quick! It seems like just a couple days ago I started fundraising, and here it is 8 days before the event and I've completely raised my goal twice, almost three times over, and I've been helping Kevin do his fundraising too! He still needs a few more sponsors if you are still thinking of helping.
So because I'm in too much physical discomfort to sleep I decided to see if accuweather agrees that I should be in this much pain... here is what the site showed me for the current arthritis index... yet again proof that my symptoms are so closely tied to the cycles of weather. So my plan now is to take some Tylenol PM to try to sleep, because if I don't get it now, it looks like it'll be even harder Friday night.
Labels: Ankylosing spondylitis, Arthritis, fundraiser, pain, Rheumatoid Arthritis, walking, weather
posted by Celestial Freak @ 10/03/2008 02:10:00 AM
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