My seemingly constant nausea is getting less and less, thankfully. I still feel best at night, but the mornings are much less nauseating than they used to be. Honestly, it seems like a/c helps. I've never been in such heat and humidity and I'm not used to dealing with it. Where I come from, heat = dry. When my skin is wet and clammy even though I'm not moving and it's very warm, and I feel like the air is too thick to breathe it makes me feel sick. The cool dry air lifts the haze from my eyes and I can breathe again and it's very refreshing.
I did get hungover on Sunday morning. I'm so silly. My tolerance for alcohol is certainly minimal at the moment. So I felt bad for half the day on Sunday, but that was totally my fault. A shower always helps, but I have to feel good enough to get in there and take one in the first place (takes a lot more work than it used to). Last time I got sick was right after a shower, so I'm more careful about waiting until I feel strong to take one.
I'm managing fine with Tylenol throughout the whole day now, and last night was my first night sleeping on just one vicodin after not taking any all day long. Nights are still by far the worst time for the hip. It complains so bitterly. Two vicodin are usually needed. It's odd that daytime is so much better, even though I'm moving around more, probably. Weird.
My knee has been hurting strangely, and I've noticed that when I do my quad-flexes, I can't straighten out the leg on my operated side. It seems to catch, kind of. It just can't flex all the way straight anymore. Hurts like a mofo when I try. I don't understand that at all, since my knee didn't get operated on! But, I'm seeing Dr. Millis tomorrow morning for my 4 week followup, so I'll ask him about it when I get there, and hopefully show him right where it hurts and what makes it hurt. It might just be from the pressure of constantly being propped up on pillows with the weight of my leg all resting on my ankle. Maybe I'm jamming my knee all day and all night and it's just stiff and achy. I'm sure it's something simple like that. The whole leg-seeming-longer-than-it-is can't help the poor knee either.
So, I'm pretty much off meds now and I still can't get myself to read. What's up with that? I gave up on Gibson's "Pattern Recognition" and am trying to start Golden's "Memoirs of a Geisha" now. Something a little lighter. We'll see how that goes.
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