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Feeling a little HPSish

It’s been a long weekend. I’m NEVER painting these silly eggs again. I’ve only got two, almost three, finished and I can’t stand to look at them anymore!

Today my bleeding was somewhat improved, although I’ve been feeling really tired today. It took me until noon to even get moving. I’ve been sluggish all day.

This evening I perked up, and thinking that perhaps part of my problem was cabin fever (I hadn’t been out of my apartment all weekend) I decided a walk would do me some good. Karen and I chatted on the phone earlier today, and she warned me that going for a walk would probably get the bleeding going again – and she was right. I’d walked about six blocks and whoosh, the flood gates were open yet again. I’ve been back to heavy bleeding this evening.


What puzzles me is that given the level of bleeding I’ve had this weekend, I’m surprised I’m not feeling worse. I’m tired, was achy Friday night – but now with the exception of being tired, I feel fine. I keep wondering if maybe I should go to the doc. in the morning, but I feel sort of silly about it. I don’t think I’m in danger of going into shock, or needing a blood transfusion or anything drastic like that. Maybe a little iron – I really, really hate to take any time off of work to schlep down to KUMed to be told I’m just fine.

You know what’s really irritating me (and hey, it’s that time of the month so I’m easily irritated!)? I’m going through all of this female stuff, and I don’t even get to have kids out of the deal – well, it’s very unlikely anyway. What’s the point of all this? Groan!

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