This is a (probably poor) approximation of a typical day in my life, as it is around the middle of the millenium year.
5:40am
I woke up feeling extremely nauseaus, as per usual. Climbed out of bed and found some medications for it then back to bed. I tried to go back to sleep (something I rarely manage) but couldn't so I lay in bed staring out at the blackness out the window and at the one star I can see through the city lights and dozing a little. Some days I watch the sun come up.
7am or so
Give up on sleep. take morning meds. no breakfast.
9am
Spent some time computing, answering email and chatting to friends on the net. I get up every few minutes to stretch and just move around so I don't get too stiff and sore sitting down.
10am
Went out for my daily walk. I can go around about 1/3 of the block where I live at the moment, and even that tires me out and gives me a headache. Today I took a short detour to the park and swung on the swings for a few minutes. Swinging takes a surprising amount of energy so I can't do it for long, but it's fun.
10:20am
To bed to rest up after my walk to try to get rid of the tiredness and the headache. I can't usually sleep during the day so today I listened to some tapes from the talking book library while I rested.
12pm
Got up again, I'm too sore to rest anymore. My head still hurts, and my shoulders and back and legs and arms too. All of me really, though my shoulders and back are the sorest. I cried a little, it's hard to cope with the pain all the time.
Spent a bit more time on the computer, chatting with friends and being comforted about how much I hurt - I don't know what I'd do without computer friends to send virtual hugs when I hurt badly. I think I walked too far in detouring to the park becuase it hurts more than usual. Damm.
Pottered around and very slowly managed to straighten up my front room in between chatting to net friends.
1pm
Watched some daytime TV, lying down on the sofabed.
1:30pm
I had two saladas with vegemite for lunch, that being all my stomach agreed to cope with. Then back to bed for more resting, lying down and listening quietly to the radio.
3pm
Still lying down ... spent an hour on the phone to Nikolai who always makes me laugh and feel a bit better about the world.
4pm
Spent another half hour on the computer reading some fan fiction - good stuff. Then back to bed. Phoned some more friends and chatted in between listening to the radio.
6pm
Took some more nausea medication to let me have dinner as my stomach was still playing up. Dinner was microwaved meals-on-wheels fare which is filling and healthy, if a little boring. I ate from my lay-back deck chair whilst half-watching some boring (as usual) TV.
7pm
Bedtime. I lay there for a few hours listening to the radio and to some tapes before I dozed off about 9pm.
