Ouch

So glad I took today off from everything, because I would've had to cancel if I had had obligations. Spent last night up and down with painful/scary side-effect stuff, then awoke with my joints on fire and my skin tender to the touch. There was literally no position I could find where stuff didn't hurt*. But seriously, not to minimize how much that sucked, it would have sucked SO much more if I'd had to go to go to work, or run errands, or, well, anything.

I did cook dinner (easy vegan lasagna thing from the Kickstart) and do a few dishes when I could stand to touch things, but otherwise, I've spent the entire day propped up in my recliner with someotherguy's eeePC in my lap. The day really could have been worse.

While I was lounging around, I started reading some books on Gutenberg (their top 2 downloads at the time were "The Yellow Wallpaper" and a collection of Sherlock Holmes stories. I'd read the former and many of the latter, but I went ahead and read them. I enjoyed the Gilman, as I always do, and am enjoying the Conan Doyle, as well. Oh, and I revisited the idea of doing Distributed Proofreading for them -- it may be volunteer work I can handle, because it doesn't involve pushing through pain and fatigue and getting out of the house.



*So glad to be scheduled to see this new doc who specializes in rheumatology and might -- just might -- be able to figure out a useful diagnosis/treatment for me. At the very least, maybe he can point me in the right direction. Very very tired of the unpredictability and the pain of this mysterious condition.