Condition Log 2009-01-06 - Early Morning

Tuesday, January 6, 2009

Scale - 10 is worst

Weather - Rain and Cool

Shaking - 6
Neck Pain - 4
Upper Back Pain - 6
Fatigue - 3
Foggy Head - 5
Tinitus - 6
Ears Full - 6
Hand Numb - 4

Fell asleep at 10pm without sleep aides. Woke at 2:45 am and couldn't go
back to sleep. Still ramping down the oral steriods, 2nd day @ 40 mg.
Have oral surgery this morning, so no food from 4:30 am on.

Spent 1 hour this morning working LinkedIn email signature, and order
for SPSys. Then 40 mins for the morning surfing routine.

Morning Plans:
Pop web page edit
Donate programming work
Work new product pages
Work new blog format

Will be a bad day with surgery and court appt this evening. Pushing to
get my 8 hours in, along with a nap after the surgery.

Condition Log 2009-01-05 - Evening

Monday, January 5, 2009

Scale - 10 is worst

Weather - Cool, Damp and Rainy

Shaking - 8
Neck Pain - 2
Upper Back Pain - 7
Fatigue - 9
Foggy Head - 8
Tinitus - 6
Ears Full - 6
Hand Numb - 7

Feeling like nystagma is coming back...eyes having problems focusing
together but no blurring.

Got my 8 hours in today, and was relatively productive. Felt that I was
pushing it too hard though. Very hard to concentrate on programming
intricacies. No energy left to work on anything in the evening hours.
Used ibuprofen to ease the back pain.

Took 40 min walk at mid-day. Made it through the day without laying down.

Condition Log 2009-01-05 - Afternoon

Scale - 10 is worst

Weather - Cool, Damp and Rainy

Shaking - 7
Neck Pain - 0
Upper Back Pain - 8
Fatigue - 8
Foggy Head - 8
Tinitus - 8
Ears Full - 8

What I've been doing.....

Trying to stay focused and make progress in some freebie programming.
Hard to maintain focused plan, but part is due to the ambigiousness of
the specification. So far, of 6.5 hours of staying at it, I have 4 hours
total in. Interrupted for roofer quote, eat/personal, walk.

Background:

Started 60 mg Prednizone on 2008-12-21
3 IV Treatments - 12/30, 12/31, 1/2
On Ramp-Down Prednizone