What an exhausting weekend. The most frustrating part of that is that I don't know if it was my arthritis or some new issue that caused me the pain and exhaustion all weekend. I slept horribly both nights. Both nights waking up due to searing hot pain shooting through my knee. Sunday was much worse as I had to get out of bed for over an hour to wait for some pain meds to kick in enough so I could go back to sleep. Is this the kind of night I can expect going forward? Sporadic sleep, pain ridden mornings and never knowing if today will be a "good" day where the pain eventually fades and I can pretend for a few hours like my leg is not a constant source of pain?
It wasn't like I did anything special. Sure, I walked the local mall with my mother, brother and my daughter for hours, but it wasn't difficult, or taxing. Surely a 10km run would cause me more grief?
Running on Sunday was totally possible in my schedule but after only having 4 hours of continuous sleep I wasn't feeling much like running anywhere except to my couch with more advil.
So I still have 10 more days to wait before I see my specialist BUT I have devised a plan to get my grubby hands on my mri report before that. I called my GP and she's getting me a copy of it today. Today! Today I can read the medical mumbo-jumbo (if there is any) and google it up to see what's going on in there. Today I can find out if I simply have a nasty case of OA or if there is something in there they can actually fix and give me some kind of relief. Now, the treatment plan is something I need to wait on but at least I'll have a better idea if I'm walking into my next specialist appointment to hear "there's nothing we can do, here's a brace or some meds" or "you have X and this is what we'll do or not do." The anticipation!!
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