Day 16: minor setback

Day 16: stayed on the plan!!

Sunbathed.
Spent too much time on Facebook. Acting class (much fun).
Numerous emails.

Shoulder discomfort is making a minor comeback as of about 2am. Boo.
I had 15 days in a row being free from this! Dang.
Of course, this may be PMS. This is how it manifests with me. 
Still, there are some "friends" you'd just rather never see again and constant disconfort, an old companion, is one of those.

In other news, I've slimmed my thighs by 2 inches, my waist by 1 inch & my chest by 2 (Joe not as enthused about that last one).

I will keep going. Every journey has little setbacks. I'm sure my iPhone overuse today didn't help matters today.

Screwing up my sleep schedule lately so rather than do a video blog (it usually takes me 30 mins to throw a song together and 30 to get a video because YouTube crashes a lot- then I have to wrestle with my blog website to get it to accept the embed code)... I'm gonna go to bed. Will make a vlog tomorrow!
Carla
http://www.thesingingpatient.com

Day 15 vlog: Farts, Pain, and a song

Day 15: Napalm farts, chronic pain, and a ditty

Carla
http://www.thesingingpatient.com

Day 14: Sleep as a currency

Trading sleep for food (and vice versa), sleep for fun, sleep for work...

Carla
http://www.thesingingpatient.com

Day 13: Minor Breakthrough?

I felt good today! I mean, actually good.
I woke up rested.
I got a lot done.
I was in a good mood.
I went for a brisk walk!
Who is this person?!
Let's hope there are more days like this to come!

Meanwhile, someone somewhere could find a reason to write a blues song about this, so here it is (after a bit of rambling of course, and my showing you my giant tub of unfinished song ideas):

Carla
http://www.thesingingpatient.com
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day 12: sleepathon!

Day 12 turned out to be "recover from day 11 day."

Whenever I see people running 5ks or marathons for lupus I think wow- the only way most lupus patients could participate would be if they changed it to a sleepathon. I'd have been a serious contender today.

Of course I do believe it's possible to get well enough to run a marathon (if I wanted to), but I am not there yet- that's for sure!  But I'm working on it. And some days working on getting healthy means doing less.

I had a strange episode when I was 17 where for 3 days I kept falling asleep. On the couch, even behind the wheel. I was getting a normal night's rest, but I just kept falling asleep. After 3 days, it passed, and it never happened again. I will never know what that was about, but that is how I felt today.

My sophomore year of college, I was constantly falling asleep as well. On the couch in one of the classrooms (I think I slept through someone's entire music theory class on that couch), in the hallway with my books under my head. Sometime during my 2nd semester, my piano teacher asked me "We've been wondering- are you on drugs?" What?! We?!? The whole faculty is sitting around gossiping about me? I was, I'm sure, visibly shocked and offended, and assured him that was not the case. So then he suggested I get some multivitamins.

I had my wisdom teeth extracted right before that fall semester I don't think I've ever recovered from it. I've never been quite the same since. So once I'm feeling stronger, I'm going to look into possibly getting those pockets looked into and maybe filled in (where my wisdom used be). But no oral surgery right now. Right now, building health.

carla

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