Cycle 3, Day 8

Monday 25th February 2019
“I’m exhausted trying to stay healthy” — Steve Yzerman

Wowsers, today has just been a struggle. Yesterday wasn’t great, you’ll remember me saying. Another 9 and a half hours sleep last night, although last night I had the added bonus of 2 bouts of diahorrea at 12.30am and 4.15am which disturbed things a little.

Jayne woke me at 8am as I’d asked, but it must have been 8.30am before I managed to open my eyes and function. I got up and got dressed, let the folks at work know I wouldn’t be around and headed down for some breakfast. I managed 3 weetabix today instead of 2. Straight away, just standing up to make breakfast was a real effort and was a sign that things hadn’t improved, if anything I felt marginally worse than yesterday.

You know that feeling where you get up “too quickly,” the blood rushes to your head and you feel dizzy? That’s what it’s been like most of the day. Just walking around I seem to get a half measure of it.

So it continued. By 12pm, I wanted to go back to sleep again. The last 2 plants for my flowerbed arrived by post just after lunch, so I went and dug them in the garden, only a 5 minute job but that finished me off. I sat on the patio in the sun and was nodding off so about 2pm I went up to sleep for an hour. 2 and a bit hours later I woke up, and Parker was home with Jayne after school.

Since then, as I have for the majority of the day, I’ve just sat down and messed on my phone or watched TV. I sat with Parker and watched some kids films, and despite being hungry I couldn’t muster the energy to get up and cook anything. Luckily the doorbell went, so I got up to answer it, and although it was just a doorstep charity person who I quickly moved on, it got me up. I settled on cheese and ham toasties for ease of making.

Now its 9pm and I’m ready for my bed already. 11+ hours sleep last night and today in total, barely any physical activity, and I’m done. Ready for bed. It’s quite depressing, but I know it’s just a day or a few until I perk up again, so it’s fine. Expecting more of the same tomorrow, hoping for better.

I’m resting though. There have been times today where I considered doing something. My bike needs cleaning for example, I put it away dirty 3 weeks ago (which is criminal) and forgot (unforgivable) until I saw it in the garage over the weekend. It’s sunny, I could just nip out and clean it…. err no. Best not.