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A quick update

Just a quick update, mostly for my personal record keeping to be honest. I’m still really battling this fatigue. It is better, but it’s still a problem. Friday I had a really great morning at work, and a pretty good afternoon, but I did put my head on my desk and fell asleep for about 45 minutes.

Friday evening I went out to dinner with a bunch of friends. My social life has been so limited lately because I haven’t felt up to being social that it was really great to get out for a while. We went to a Thai place. I ordinarily love Thai food, but I’m just not having much of an appetite. This is, in some ways, a good thing. Grin! I ate a veggie egg roll, a bowl of coconut-type soup, and about five bites of phad-thai (sp?). I had the noodles again for dinner this evening, and there’s still enough left for another meal.

About the only thing that tastes good to me right now is ice cream. Go figure? What is my body trying to tell me with that one? Ben and Jerry’s ice cream with cherries in it is about the only thing that actually sounds good to me. I had a bowl of it this evening. I know that’s not on my diet. Grin….the skittles I ate Friday aren’t either, and they weren’t worth it. They didn’t even taste good. I threw half the little bag away.

Friday night I didn’t sleep well, even though I was so incredibly tired. I kept waking up in the night thinking about some of the HPS’ers I’m worried about. Well, worried isn’t the right word. I know that there’s nothing I can do for them. I know that God is taking care of them. But, I’m just that way. It’s hard to see your friends suffer.

Finally, by the wee hours of the morning, I did fall asleep and stayed asleep until mid afternoon! That’s not good. My whole schedule will be all out of whack now. I so hate it when I do that! One of my precious days off just pretty much gone, just slept away. ARRHHRRR.

My blood pressure also continues to jump around. It hasn’t leaped up to dangerous levels again, but it’s so strange in that I can be totally relaxed, stressed about nothing, and one time it’s normal and an hour later it’s high. It seems like there’s no logic to the way it jumps around.

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