Day #5
Morning:
No Dex today. Today I turn back the other way on the road to being off steroids again. If I felt better, I'm sure I'd be overjoyed. As it is, I'm pleased and tentatively hopeful.
Got to sleep around 11, slept kind of fitfully, woke up around 7:30. Hand tremors (those often seem to be worse in the morning). Also kind of thirsty. Laid in bed for an hour, surfing the web and other mindless things. I feel a general sense of anxiety in the background about any number of things, most of which are completely out of my control. My inclination is to dig in mentally, come up with a plan or plans to make things better with what I can control, but experience has taught me that this is the absolutely wrong time to do that. Patience is key right now. Patience and trust and faith.
Before we knew that I'd be on steroids this week, Eric and I had planned to attend the temple today. We'll be playing that by ear, but if I find I have the energy, I'd like to go there and feel that peace. We'll see what the day brings I guess.
Afternoon/Evening:
Didn't make it to the temple. Didn't really make it too far off the couch. I'm ultra sensitive to sensory things, much more than yesterday. Fortunately, Eric took Heather out to the Fall festival today, so I got a few hours of being blissfully alone and quiet.
This was a hard day, but made much easier by the fact that I was able to lay low.
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