Thinking that many things we do are right...

I did what I said I was going to do in last night's blog.

Trying hard to feel better by taking the medications I was originally dosage and prescribed amounts for my lumbar herniation of Gabapentin and Baclofen, when I failed Tramadol intake due to it making me physically sick to my stomach, which is not what you want in pain already, true?

So the medications were ingested by me yesterday and also today and so far I had a wonderful night's sleep last night and took a nap that Hubby had to wake me up from to watch my only Soap Opera left that I have watched on and off for over forty years, forty two this month to be exact. You know why I know that?

Well, when I left Lord and Taylor's from my job as their credit manager due to my darling first child being due in June, on the sixteenth and so I thought I would have six weeks to finish preparing for his arrival, but in those days we did not know or have that option to know for sure if we were having a boy or girl until they arrived.

It was fine since we had neutral colors for our baby layettes, yellows or mint green. I opted for yellow from crib sheets to blankets etc. He had a wonderful very happy theme to come home to of the Smiley Face, a lamp and other accoutrements were my choices for whomever our child was, happiness is what I wanted he/she to see right away!

I was hoping that I would make him/her smile from the very beginning and sure enough with yellow and orange, yes, orange in the tweedy carpet in that room and combo yellow/orange print curtains, bringing it all together, way back in 1972!

Unfortunately or fortunately, whichever most Moms would look at the early arrival of a birth of their first son, by a two full weeks, plus a couple of days. He was small, our Number One Son, at 5 lbs. 12 oz. and just 19 inches long but perfectly healthy and perfectly formed, and before leaving the hospital his weight declined to 5 lbs. 7 oz. that I do understand is normal, but he still looked so very tiny, but not a preemie by their standards then or now so I have been told.

So when I left work on April 30, 1972 expecting a nice little adjustment time of waiting and enjoying the wait and of course the preparation I was firming up my friendship with another woman who had just had her second son and had been our friend with her husband, and we had attended their wedding and they had attended ours. It was nice Mommy time learning and talking and watching Soaps together, yep she got me hooked on General Hospital, way back then. And often when I was not working during those next forty-two years I was a fan that was as avid as any!

So Hubby over these last few years that we have been retired together has known this and makes sure that at the very least on Fridays and Mondays I am able somehow able  to watch since the cliffhangers are then and so much hinges on those, it is so great that he gets that!

He woke me for that today right on time and I thanked him, in spite of the fact that I was groggy from my medication, I suspect.
And with me napping is highly unusual, but I could not keep my eyes open, really, and after that long good night's sleep.

A bit unnerving, since the local TV channel was doing an item on why adults napping are dangerous and not healthy for us.

Who knows why all of a sudden this is happening, when it did not affect me this way ever before, that is the Gabapentin and Baclofen in combo or alone.

I do have a doctor's appointment next week with my new neuro, second time seeing him, and that makes me feel that if this side affect doesn't stop I will be able to ask him about what to do.

The worst of the whole thing is that so far I have not noticed a significant relief, yep a little but not too much.

I am hoping it is just because I just started back on it all, hmm?

Sounds logical to me. I only wish I could remember if that is what happened last time, and that was four months ago...


So that is where I painfully sit and only stand for still short periods while going from point A to point B, not far in this tiny home of ours...

On this note of waiting, not so patiently to feel good, allow me to be the very first to wish all of you a very happy good night and ask you to kindly count all your blessings and we will too!

And next time please be here or be square, ya hear!

PS: Please forgive any typos; I appear to have a bit of an eyelid drooping issue, even with both eyes now focusing, weird, huh? But I did Google it and it can be either the MS or the cataract surgery, which says it too is not unusual and could last six months!