Δαφνη Ευτυχια Αρθουρος

Wednesday morning I got very little sleep, so getting less accomplished that day than I'd hoped, then feeling like I was thinking and moving in slow motion by that evening, was not terribly unsurprising, however frustrating. Yesterday I got my head stuck in the car-shopping process, searching eBay and Craigslist and putting notes in a Google spreadsheet (so I can access it equally easily from home or from anniemal's house), slowly realizing that sounds hurt^[1] and I was still "thinking through mud". I wasn't sure whether it was fibro-associated wierdness or an incipient migraine -- I did drink basil/lavender tea, and it did seem to help a bit, which suggests that I managed to head off the worst part of a migraine that had been headed my way.

(Not that yesterday was entirely bad. Dinner with anniemal and syntonic_comma and vvalkyri was nice despite the sharp-sounds/slow-brain thing and accidentally putting too much pepper in the lentil-parsnip curry.)

A little over an hour ago I suddenly woke up feeling more clear-headed than I have felt in the past forty eight hours. Feeling awake and aware feels nice. Feeling ... coherent. Only problem is, gee whiz, my back hurts a lot and I was awake at 0-dark-thirty. (And my head hurts, but it feels more like sinus pain than anything else, so perhaps some seasonal Canadian drugs^[2] will help with that.)

Anyhow, it still feels good to feel like I've got my brain back out of the oobleck it felt like it was buried in yesterday and the day before. Feels more like being me.

[1] The crinkling of a plastic bag five feet away on the other side of a door is not, in general, supposed to be painful, right?

[2] Currently the only antihistamines I know of that work for me are loratadine (just barely, if I double the dosage and take it twice as often) and Zyrtec (which is less effective than it was a few years ago, but still works well enough to notice). But Zyrtec a) is not covered by the state health-care-for-poor-people plan even if the doctor calls 'em up and insists that the patient needs it (it was in the "doctor has to argue" category until the new general health plan superceded the old prescription-assistance-only plan and the city-run clinic became a provider to the state thingie) ... b) is wicked expensive in the US, and c) has no generic equivalent avauilable in the US. But in Canada it is 1) OTC (under a different brand name), 2) much less expensive even in the name brand, and 3) available more cheaply still in generic form. Fortunately, I have friends in Canada, to whom I am quite grateful. Now as long as the next new antihistamine comes out before my body decides it no longer wants to react to Zyrtec ... (fortunately it seems to have slowed down that process as I've aged -- I've gotten more years out of each of the last few antihistamines than I used to).