Today turned into a ‘pause’ day.
I had been ‘pushing’ myself harder last week, trying to build up muscle, but I finally figured out I was having an adverse reaction to the ‘new’ pain meds I was taking. Just trying to get the loom dressed over the weekend was…not much fun.
But I talked the pharmacist, then my family doctor and last night I got a new pain medication. The pharmacist advised that I wean off the old medication, but that I could start the new one now if I felt comfortable with that. Not having *any* pain medication was not an appealing path forward so I reduced the old to one capsule and took one of the new. I can’t say that last night was very successful, but I expect it will take about 5 days to clear my system of the old and then another couple of weeks to tell if the introductory dose of the new will be sufficient, while I wait for the muscle and joint pain to fade (as the old med clears my body.)
Pain is the angry toddler of health issues, I think. If ‘too much’ is a trigger, it’s hard to know when you have tipped over into trigger territory, usually until it is too late. Yesterday I had several potential triggers – we got our Covid vaccines, then I walked way too much around Costco picking up a few things we wanted to stock up on. Then I went to the pharmacy to pick up the new meds and wound up standing longer than I should have after trekking through Costco. When I got home I wanted to finish getting the loom set up before I took a nap.
In the end I didn’t do everything I wanted, but the loom is threaded and sleyed, ready to be tied up.
However, a friend emailed the other day and asked if we could have a (zoom) visit, and we will do that this afternoon. In the meantime I have a bin of towels hemmed, ready for pressing so I think I’m going to go do that now and then I can clear the worktable off and do the zoom there.
Plus I ran out of my oat bars so I was going to get them done this morning, but a night filled with too little sleep means I slept in (finally!) and the morning has evaporated. It isn’t as though I don’t have other things I can eat, but the bars are non-allergen and I can grab one for a quick snack if I am feeling peckish. Maybe after the Zoom…
However, the treadlings for the new warp are generated, all I need to do is load them into the laptop, tie up, wind bobbins, then weave my samples. I’m thinking I’ll put off wet finishing the towels I just took off the loom and do the samples with that load so I can see what I’ve got. And then I can begin writing the article.
Looks I have a full calendar – or, at least, as full as I can anticipate while I hope like hell I can find pain meds that don’t make things worse while I try to get better…