If you are reading this, its too late.

The best way to deal with changing the daylight savings time thingy is to stay in bed so if you a reading this its too late for you. Well, in our house, we need to explain to the cat about things like weekends and time changes etc. He thinks the world revolves around him and his biological needs for things like food, water, and attention (and don't step in his gift he left on the hall carpet outside the bedroom door) so at 430 am (old time) he began his morning wake-up-the-humans routine.

I don't even know if we are on day light savings time or regular (standard) time. All I know is I will be sleep deprived for a few days and will wonder which clocks and watches I reset. Except the basement clock I never reset - its just wrong half the time. I can handle international time changes of 5 hours or 14 hours no problem but one hour drives me crazy for days. But travel to a place with a one hour time change I can handle as well.

I don't really understand why we have to change time. Its something to do with saving energy and enjoying the evening natural light. I did learn that Ben Franklin came up with the idea but it took over 100 years to catch on. If its to enjoy the evening daylight, it doesn't work here in eastern New England where I think we should really be in Atlantic time if we were really technical about it.

Enough about that. Stay in bed. Sleep late. You'll feel better.

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The things I learned

I learned yesterday never to assume that the doctor wants to hear everything that is wrong with you. The doctor cares about their specialty area. So even though I had a list of things for my oncologist, she said none of those sound breast cancer related so I should talk to my primary care about them if they continue. Fair enough. But she wants to see me back in six months - what happened to yearly follow ups? I'm still waiting for those.

I also learned yesterday that when a doctor prescribes medicine, you need to know if it is 'instead of' something you are already taking or 'in addition to'. I assumed 'instead of' and it was really a case of 'in addition to' so I had to refigure out my pills for the week.

Finally, I also learned yesterday I do not function well without enough sleep. I felt like I was walking around in a fog all day. Last night, I did get enough sleep and feel almost like a human being today. Almost, but not quite human.

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A day of playing pretend

Yesterday I went to the back pain doctor. He listened to my latest issues (whining) and told me I have problems with my left SI joint - I could have told him that - and I have new neuro-muscular issues in my upper back. The current plan for treating them is to try Cymbalta instead of Lyrica for a few months. Then if I am still having pain, they will try some muscular injections to relieve it. After this is resolved, we will then go on to my left SI joint and start with a cortisone injection or two.

He did tell me to take Cymbalta in the evening as it tends to make people sleepy. But he also said that some people it tends to keep them up and if it does that to me, I should switch to mornings. I took it last night and then started to get very sleepy so I went to bed. Walter came up at 11 and I woke up. At 1am, I woke up again. Then I think I was awake every five minutes all night long. So today I feel SSSSOOOOO wonderful. The problem is I have a very long day scheduled and include a follow up at my oncologists office. I have a feeling my inner crabby b*tch may show through from time to time.

Also, my dilemma is do I take Cymbalta this morning on the assumption that it is what kept me up last night (and is only 12 hours from when I last took it) or do I wait and take it again tonight? I am opting for plan B here because I kept waking up either too hot or too cold, my back hurt, etc. If my damn back would stop hurting I might sleep better.

So today at the oncologist I will attempt to look wide awake and human. I might need to resort to make up... I have my list of questions for her. Maybe I'll even write down the answers so I don't forget.

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