Listening to the Voices in My Head

The past several months, I have been on very short rations of sleep due to knee and car accident related pain. I had a meltdown last week, crying, ranting, and just nuts. But sleep deprivation can do that.

Last night, I went to bed very early, and made sure my back was to the door, I was under the blankets, dim reading light. I read for about 15 minutes, put book away, shut off the light, and I was out cold.

Woke up, check the sleep log and I had been in bed for over 9 hours, asleep for 8hrs and 35 minutes.

I got up, and wow, my knees weren't anywhere near as sore as they had been. The swelling of my right knee was gone. It was the first morning in weeks that not only wasn't I hurting, I felt rested and able to get up on stationary bike first thing after feeding the purr kids.

So yes, getting enough sleep does make one helluva difference.

Wing brought a Neti pot home tonight, for me to use. Heated up some filtered water, added it and the ph balanced salt mixture and flushed my sinuses out. It took a while for the solution to exit because of how swollen my sinuses must have been. But when it started flowing out, the painful pressure started easing. Tipped head and flushed out the other direction. Blessed relief about about 2 hrs. Repeated treatment.

I might still have a runny/stuffy nose but at least it doesn't feel as if my face is a pressure cooker. Here's hoping it means I can get a good nights sleep tonight.

Loki woke me up at Dark O'clock this morning.

I've been spending weeks getting a flock of Carnaby Cockatoos accustomed to my presence. Keeping a supply of cool fresh water has helped. This has resulted in close, sharper images. Today, I was about two car lengths away from them. Got many great shots. I even managed to get Wing out there taking photos of them.

Here's a few of them:

Still not feeling too great, but sort of coherent right now. Whatever this is, all I have is body aches (understatement) and a fever. I woke up this morning, twice, wondering my I felt so crowded.

I was surrounded by Keito, Loki and Ziggy. Or as ShadoutCarver said "Mom's warm! Everyone pile on!"

When my fever broke for a while, I kicked off the blankets, and laid back down. During lights out, I felt itty bitty feet climb on my leg, up to my hip, and then off the bed. Then I felt itty bitty feet mincing back up on the bed (from Wing 's night stand) onto my leg and hip again, round and round... until I pulled at least one of the blankets up over me, and spread part of it out for Ziggy to sleep on.

A nifty side effect of Ziggy being there is Loki didn't do his usual "Mom's a trampoline!" to get me up. He walked around the bed, head butting me in the face, meowing at me.

Here I am under warm blankets, with the furry alarm clock in snooze mode, before 9:30. This way, if said furry alarm clock wakes me up at the usual 6am, I will have rested enough (hopefully) My hands are so sore from using the weed trimmer, that using my electric toothbrush was not easy. I can't think straight. Time for rest.

G'night