Gregory M. Ledet

I have slept all damn week long.  Literally.  I can’t think of a time in my life when I’ve slept this much… not even when I was a teenager.  Wednesday night I got really into a new webapp that I was working on and didn’t get to sleep until yesterday at 6am.  I slept until noon and came downstairs only to go back to sleep at 1:30 or so.  I woke up just before 5, went to bed at 8 (no sleeping pills needed) and didn’t wake up until 10:30 this morning.  I had to take a Ritalin just so I didn’t fall asleep again today.  It’s been like this all week.  I sleep and sleep and sleep and I’m still tired.

This is not to mention the lack of appetite.  I’ve been having to force myself to at least eat a sandwich or something everyday just to make sure I have something in my stomach.  I’m getting tired of throwing up and not having anything in my stomach to come out.  It’s too damn painful.  Even the nausea meds aren’t helping as much as I’d like.

I’ve been trying to keep my mind on things other than feeling like complete ass.  I’ve just finished my second mobile webapp, admittedly it’s just another calculator and it looks similar to the first, but there’s a lot of difference in how the back end works.  I’ve already started working on porting it over to the Palm Pre and Pixi, but I’m running into issues with formatting.  I’ll figure it out.

Today’s injection site was the top of my right thigh.  Yes, it sucks.  I took it around 10:30 and I’m already feeling it bad.  I know tomorrow is going to suck royally, but I just need to push through it.

That’s about everything that’s going on right now, so until next time…

I finally got off my butt and made a video today!  I’ve just really been worn out lately and haven’t felt up to doing a video, but I just got out the shower and was feeling a little better.  Well, here you go!

I’m still sleeping all day long.  I can’t believe that today is already Wednesday and that the day is nearly over.  I guess because I’ve been sleeping so much, I feel like I just slept the week away.  I’ve been trying to get some stuff done, mainly working on a few websites and trying to get the house cleaned up a little bit, but with all the sleeping it’s making things hard.  I’ve also had a monster headache for the past few days.  The injection sites on my stomach are bright red, swollen, and itchy.  I’ve been putting a topical antihistamine on there, but it’s still not helping.  The dry eyes have kinda cleared up, but they are still a little dry.  Nothing that some eye drops can’t handle.

Other than that, things have been going OK.  The joint and muscle aches haven’t been bad at all since I woke up on Monday.  I’m not looking forward to Friday though.  I’m going to have to take Friday’s injection in my thigh because I’ve taken the last 2 in my stomach and I need to let that heal for a while before I go rushing back in there.  The problem is, this is a subcutaneous injection, not IM and I have very little fat on my legs.  This one is going to hurt like hell, but that’s all part of the treatment!

One of the side effects of this treatment is not being able to get to sleep.  To top that off, my insurance company thinks that I only need 15 sleeping pills in any 30 day period.  Even though the doctor prescribes 30, they will only pay for half that.  So instead of getting a lot of rest like I would like to, I end up sitting up all night playing on the damn computer.  I guess I’ll pop my last Ambien I had hidden and try to get some sleep.