still not enough spoons

[baratron]

Well, my gall bladder stopped being evil. But I still lacked sufficient spoons to go to Polyday. Had a high temperature & headache & period pain & legs so achey I was limping in the house, so there's no way I could have made it up the hill to the station, let alone across London. I miss the people I didn't see, but at least the smoking ban means it's not my only chance to see people for 6 months.

Today, the headache is (mostly) gone and the period pain is manageable, but I still have a temperature of 37.4 °C 90 minutes after taking paracetamol. It's not obscenely high, but it's high for me (my usual is 37.1 °C at this time of day) and high enough that I can't quite think straight/right. And I'm not sure what to do about it other than take paracetamol - go to the doctor and say "I have a high temperature but no other symptoms?!". It's pretty clearly my usual chronic fatigue/glandiness thing, except my glands don't actually seem to be swollen. I'm about 95% sure that they'll look at a temperature of 37.4 and decide it's within the range of normal - never mind that it's high for me, or that the hospital panics and starts feeding you paracetamol if it goes above 37.0 (a problem, when my normal temperature is 37.1!). Blah.

How is life treating you? I want to hear all the gossip & scandal!

Comments

[alexmc.livejournal.com]

> I still lacked sufficient spoons to go to Polyday

Me too. Well sorta - I made it to the pub at about 8pm and sat with dougs and friends for his official birthday drinks.

Perhaps we can encourage each other to go next time? maybe do some Spoon re-distribution if possible?

[baratron.livejournal.com]

Well, I don't really need encouraging to go, I need to be healthy enough! Seriously, I couldn't even walk to the station, let alone from Waterloo to the venue. And I was so brain-fried yesterday that, even if someone had driven me there door-to-door, I wouldn't have enjoyed it. I spent the day sitting on the sofa going "urgh" and poking at Sims.

[alexmc.livejournal.com]

gotcha. Sorry. hugs

[baratron.livejournal.com]

It's ok, I'm not offended :) I realised you hadn't seen that part of my post.

I don't often need encouraging to go to events where there'll be a lot of people I know - I'm an extrovert, in the gaining energy from being around people sense. I find it draining to deal with people who aren't geeks because I just don't have enough culture in common with them, but events with my sort of people are recharging. But if I'm exhausted & in pain & not right already, it's not a good idea to push my body further. I probably made things worse for myself by going to all three students on Friday, even though I was spacey after the first one.

Of course, now I'm feeling very lonely because I didn't go out at all this weekend :( Two of my friends came here today, but I was in pain & in a bad mood & didn't feel at all social until just before they were leaving! Stupid body.