And Today….

Last night, I slept from 11 pm until 7 am. I was amazed and happy.  Upping the dosage of nortriptylene seems to be what I needed.

I really tired myself out yesterday going out shopping — so much so that I almost called and told them I wouldn’t be at physical therapy today. But it was pool day so I went. I always go a bit early so I can hang around in the water and have even been swimming a bit. My swimming stroke of choice is the breast stroke but I have been going easy on the frog kick bit. BUT, today, Leslie did the pool stuff and she added frog kicks to the regime!  I really like having therapy with Leslie because she ALWAYS challenges me. She says it amuses her to see the expression on my face. "You are asking me to do WHAT? "  I am having tiny and very occasional twinges of pain from the site of the surgery but physical therapy is killing  me!  The other woman doing physical therapy  in the pool with me is Alice. I asked her today if she had a hip replacement since she was doing a lot of the same exercises I was doing, but she just has "problems with walking!"

I got a phone call from my primary doctor’s nurse at 8 am. She was wanting me to explain why I wanted a prescription of 50 mg nortriptylene written for two months instead of one. She said she was confused because I had just picked up a two-months supply! Well, yes, but those were 10 mg pills and since I was out and I had to go from taking two of them a night to five of them a night, they were not going to last me a month!  And just about the time I was going to run out, I would be leaving the country for six weeks…"OOOOH!" she said, "I see. I’ll get that phoned in to the pharmacy for you!" Now, I suppose I will need to explain it all to the insurance people too!  And I had all this arranged perfectly too, before the dosage was changed, Still, I am not complaining. It is so great not being woken by restless leg syndrome!

I did the load of white clothes in the laundry basket this morning and the only things left  are the sheets I took off the bed the other day. I will do those tomorrow. I also need to deposit a check at the bank and I might as well arrange for euros while I am there. The exchange rate is not wonderful but maybe it has gotten better the last time I looked? {I am ever hopeful}  I also need to start list-making for this trip. I will use the list I made for my trips to England but there will have to be some changes. When I went to England, I often wore my sister’s clothes…

QUOTATIONS:

"Step by step. I can’t think of any other way of accomplishing anything."

Michael Jordan

If you have the courage to begin, you have the courage to succeed.

— David Viscott