Looking at my weight today you may think that at 135.10 kilos, I’m almost at my first target weight (135.0 kilos), but I think the main reason for the drop, is dehydration. For the past few days, I’ve drunk nowhere near the 2-litre recommended minimum, so a weight loss was all bar certain! Anyway, close is close so I’ll take the win. Over today I’ll try to make up the water shortage, which might cause tomorrow’s weigh-in a bit of a hit-and-miss affair depending on how much I lose again via urine and perspiration throughout the day! š
Moving along, I can report that my sleep has drastically improved. I went to lie down around 2:00 p.m. and ( I assume because I was exhausted,) fell asleep. I *think* I woke around 4:00, had a shower… and lay down again. At some stage, I woke up enough to crawl under the covers, put my CPAP mask on, and went back to sleep. I woke at 1:00, then 4:00 finally getting up around 6:15. I think my exhaustion finally caught up and my body said “Too much” and reacted. It did me some good at least because I feel a lot less tired, though the cough is still bothersome. By the way, other than the last noted, these times are all approximate, just guesswork. š
So, the cough. Up until recently it’s not really been ‘painful’ as such, just scary because the major symptom has been a hacking cough that made it all bar impossible to inhale, and certainly not take in a “lung full, i.e. a deep breath. What pain there was seemed to come from the attempt to take a deep breath (or sometimes, to breathe at all) and the ongoing strain on my diaphragm. It seems as if the diaphragm tries to help by ‘pushing’ up on my lung. Whether it actually works this way I don’t know, but it hurts regardless whatever the cause.
Anyway, to sum up, I basically couldn’t inhale. However, today, I feel a burning ache in my chest. Whether this is a result of an infection (always possible); or the condition is just worse; or perhaps I’ve begun feeling the pain that my lungs have been generating all along, again I can’t tell. I suppose it’s possible the pain was ‘masked’ by the ongoing cough which could indicate there may actually be some improvement. Maybe the clots are slowly dissolving, but without having a chest scan nobody can tell, and that can’t happen until I see a specialist sometime in January. Whatever the cause, so far today I’ve not coughed much. This may be because I’ve not had anyone to talk to… yet and when I *do* try to talk later on the cough will be as bad as ever. We’ll see in time no doubt. In the meantime, I’m grateful for the pause. š
The Eclectic Interweb 