Condition Log 2009-01-23 - 9:30PM

Saturday, January 24, 2009

Scale - 10 is worst

Weather - Sunny and mild.
 
Shaking - 6 (evident putting the printer ribbon in, shaking in front of the client)
Neck Pain - 2
Upper Back Pain - 3
Fatigue - 3
Foggy Head - 4
Tinitus - 5
Ears Full - 5
Hand Numb - 0 (but from running the leaf blower)
Spatial Orientation - 5
Gastro - 4
Insomnia = 7 (took single benedryl Thursday night)
 
Heavy work, 11.9 hours. Orientation and shaking problems, got better as the day went on. Since I was on site with a client, I made sure I moved slowly and deliberately. Finished the on-site around noon, home around 1. Very tired, but very satisfied. Slight back and neck pain started, the neck probably due to stress. But I was in euphoria of actually putting in what I thought to be an "acceptable" week of 50 hours. If you follow the "set number of beers" philosophy of Multiple Sclerosis, my weekend is going to be trashed. At this point, I don't care. I need to keep pushing as I'm up against it with 3 clients. Either I can pull the load, or it'll break me..... neurology consult next Friday.....
 
Updating this a day late because of the installation at the client. Basically, I was in "overdrive" mode, with almost 12 hour in. I under scoped the amount of data I had to comb for the database import. Got all the PN's in, but didn't have the BOM loaded or the portable tested. When I got there, he had a single Window's laptop, and 2 macs running XP in the Fusion emulator. Hoo boy. I thought I was going to lose the account. Amazingly, everything installed, and as I played it for the client, he was happy. End of the day felt victorious....heard from another client who wants some mods on something I did 4 years ago. He's running it every month and it runs like a champ. Gives me reason to contact the Hobbitzes again.