Impossibly tired...

It's my second day back at work full time post surgery and, while for that I am extremely grateful, I am also extremely tired. I know, I know...it's only DAY TWO! I was on call last night too which didn't help. Being on call means I have to have my work phone on and ready in case a crisis worker needs to run something past a supervisor and, sure enough, at 4am this morning that happened. Which, of course, just added to the overall crappiness of my night.

You see, since surgery, I haven't been able to fall asleep all that well. My surgical leg does this weird thing where it takes forever to relax at night. Each muscle seems to contract and relax independently of one another for about an hour or two driving me completely insane. Often, I have to finally just get up and walk around a while to get it to stop. So once I do finally fall asleep getting a rude awakening at 4am isn't really what I need. But it's part of the job, so it goes.

I know that in time I'll get back some of my strength and stamina and I won't feel quite so draggy as I do now. In the meantime...there's not enough coffee in the world today! Maybe if I had in an IV drip...

Recovery...or not...

After two days of all over general yuckiness known as "the flu" I have to admit that I am grateful the vomiting and other nastiness has ended but I can't shake this fatigue. I'm at work right now and quickly regretting my decision to try to get some work done. My boss, just back from two weeks relaxing in Canada, walked into my office and said "You look like shit!" How's that for a "good morning"? But he's right, I do. I have large dark circles under my eyes. I am pale and feel...well, yucky...again.

I'm going to try to tough it out until noon and then go home and sleep some more. Noon seems an awful long time off though...

ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ

I'm so tired. I didn't get a lot of sleep last night. There's nothing like a freshly sneezed cat loogie in your face to make you wake up...fast. Arnie was sharing. I cleaned my face and managed to fall back to sleep just in time for the phone to ring. It was Alex wanting to tell me about the new phone plan he found...at 4:30am Central Time. So now I'm sitting here at my desk at work with my eyes barely open staring at the internet...for hours on end. Occasionally someone comes in here to ask me a question or I get up and walk around the office for a few minutes but then I'm right back here...staring, yawning and dreaming of a nap.

It's 2:15 here now. I think I could probably convince my boss to let me go an hour early today. Sounds like a plan....