Took Clarinex. Took Advil. Took dog for a long walk. Still tired and achey, but not as bad. I’m taking advantage of the nice weather to hang clothes to dry out on the line. For some reason, this is a task that I find comforting and enjoyable. Maybe this is all the Seasonal Affective Disorder taking its toll again. Regardless, the dog is tired out and the laundry smells nice, so that’s a good thing.
I wish I knew so I could make it stop. Sheesh. I’ve had a headache every day, I think it’s more than a week now. Very much like my “weather’s coming” headache, but with some extra achey spots. My muscles up and down my back are sore as if I had a fever, but there’s no fever. Pressure and pain in my right inner ear and down into the hollow under my jaw – the same pain that the dental work had taken care of before. It’s the exhaustion that’s driving me crazy, though. Even on the nights that I sleep pretty well (meaning I don’t have to take a pill after tossing and turning for an hour, and maybe don’t even have to take a second one between 3 and 4 because I can’t get BACK to sleep) I feel like I hardly slept at all. Last night I woke up a lot, but fell back to sleep easily each time. But when I woke up at 7-something, I felt like the room was spinning around me. I went back to bed after breakfast, looked at the clock at 9:40, and before I could finish thinking “I should get up now” I was off again. at 10:20, I managed to haul myself out, but I can tell you right now that if I laid down again, I’d be unconscious again for hours. I guess I need to call the doctor again. *sigh*
To her, the litter boxes in a six-cat household represent a doggie smorgasbord. And after she finishes her little fecal snacks, she’s so happy she has to come and lick you. It doesn’t take long to figure out where she’s been. Gross. Ewwww. Yuck. Either I need to find a cat food supplement that will repel the dog (they make one to make dog feces taste bad, but that’s not her cuisine of choice) or a minty-fresh cat litter so she doesn’t reek so much.