Yes, it's super late, and I'm pretty much dead. I've had to wipe drool a few times sitting here, but I'm on a hunt. I'm trying to google information about contrast MRIs, EEGs, and sleep disorders (specifically hypersomnia), and I'm not having much luck. What exactly do the doctors expect to find? I've never had a head injury, so I don't know. I do have chronic sinus problems and a deviated septum, so is it possible that my misshapen skull is to blame for my defective hypothalmus? I don't know. I don't think anyone really knows, and it's frustrating, and my tiredness isn't helping the frustration and vice versa.

OK my typing is horrible when I'm this tired and the fact that I'm crying during commercials on TV tells me I am way beyond tired. No wonder I always thought I was losing my mind. I should have always found it suspicious that my depression went away with naps. Hmmph.

My forehead is slowly healing, by the way. The skin is still a little scaly, but it's not three big red dots like it was on Friday. My bruise on my elbow from the MRI is still present, but now it's just a greenish yellow that's spread a bit farther than before. If bruises photographed better, I'd keep track of it.

OK brain got heavy. Must go before I'm unable to walk up the stairs to the bed.

Acetones r poysen

Can you see them? I still have three dots on my forehead from the EEG electrodes. Not only are they red dots, but the skin has a different texture than the rest. Yes, it's burnt. Burnt! The redness has gotten better since yesterday (my boss actually laughed at the marks when I got in the office), but the texture is just getting drier and crackly, despite the amounts of lotion I'm using.

Anyone have any suggestions? :(

Went to Bed Last Night: 11:30pm
Wakenings: a few seconds around 2am to check the clock
Woke up Today: 6:00am
Naps: 15-min nap @ 1:30pm, 3-hr nap @ 4:30pm
Meds Taken:
     • 500mg metformin @ 7:00am
     • 1000IU vitamin D pills @ 7am
     • 1 spray of Veramyst @ 7:30pm
     • yes, you read right —— no dextro and no afternoon doses. couldn't take the dextro for the EEG and forgot my afternoon meds

Food:
     Breakfast: granola bar, cup of soy milk @ 7am
     Lunch: most of a 12" turkey and ham sub from Subway (w/ wheat bread, provolone, lettuce, tomato, pickles, black olives, cucumbers, salt/pepper, and spicy brown mustard) @ 1:45pm
     Snacks: munched on peanuts between 11am and 1:30pm, about 1/2 cup of shells produced.
     Dinner: sushi (spicy tuna rolls)
Exercise: none

Sleepiness Level: I would say that the 3-hour nap says it all. And no meds. I'm a cranky, tired, dizzy mess today.
Other Notes: Today is EEG day — no dextro. :( I look dumb, but I'm using a bandana that I bought my dog to camo it. It's hot pink with skulls all over it. :)

For those of y'all that wear fanny packs... c'mon!

Obscure Ben Folds Five reference: approved.

Anyhow, I look super awesome in my mobile EEG/EKG garb. Not. :P I didn't go into the office after I was done getting attached, and working from home is no peach. I could access websites fine on my Mac as far as speed goes, but since they're mostly optimized for Windows, I had to use our PC desktop to access them for certain functions. How frustrating that the PC was running super slow and kept crashing. Gah. It's only a 3-yr-old computer too -- it's more up-to-date than the PC at work, and that one doesn't crash all the time. I don't get it. Oh wait, back to the EEG stuff. So they hook up the EEG wires on my head, EKG patches on my chest, put gauze all over my head to keep the wires in place, and give me my little fanny pack that holds the machine in place.


I know I look dumb with all that stuff on to the point where I won't go in public and yet I posted it on the internet for anyone to see. But the point is for someone else who has to get the EEG done can see what it was like.

On a really cute note, this is love (the brown furry thing is my dog):

The week of many appointments

Here's my doctor schedule this week:

Today I see the endo to go over the test results he ran last month. I'm not incredibly nervous -- I know they'll all come back normal, as usual. I'm just anxious about how he will deliver the news. He doesn't seem to be the most understanding or compassionate doctor I've been to. If he doesn't get that I'm not all-over-body tired, then I don't know what more he can bring to the table. We'll see.

Tuesday, I go for an MRI. Not the best way to spend my lunch break, but it could be worse, I guess.

Wednesday, I see my chiropractor, who is just absolutely amazing. It hasn't added any extra energy, but I'm feeling so loose and well that I don't have to fight a tight aching back or shoulders.

Thursday, I go in the morning to have my EEG "installed." I'll miss about a half day of work, and since I'll look really dumb with all the wires all over my head, I'll be working from home the rest of the day. Unless I get there and I don't actually look too stupid, then I'll go into the office for the rest of the day. I want to make sure I keep my schedule as normal as possible so it's an accurate reading. Then I go Friday morning to have the wires removed. I'll be late for work that day too since I have to drive an hour away to get them off, then an hour home to shower, then a half hour to work. I'm not looking forward to that commute. Yuck. :P

I haven't really been keeping track of my sleep schedule this past week. Honestly, I've been too preoccupied with other things that logging onto here and adding posts hasn't even crossed my mind. Nothing major has happened, really. Yesterday, I slept almost 12 hours until about noon, and then I had a 30 minute nap around 4 or 5pm.