Feeling human...

Good afternoon! You may be relieved to hear that I slept a lot more and better last night than I had done the night before, so am feeling much more refreshed and normal today. It wasn't a flawless night's sleep, unfortunately, but it was a night's sleep, and I do feel so much stronger for it. I couldn't keep my eyes open when I got into bed, and it took a long time to summon up the energy to turn the lights off, but as soon as I did I was out. This was great, but it didn't actually take very long for me to wake up again in a less sleepy state... My legs were hurting, and I was worried that I was in for another sleepless night. They weren't as bad, however, and after a certain time of tossing, turning, distracting, sweating, fighting the bed-linen and chewing my t-shirt, I must have got back to sleep, as the next thing I knew it was 6:30am and I must have been asleep for a good number of hours! It was a relief to know I'd been catching up on my hours, and I hadn't even had to resort to the painkillers to do so. Waking up, I was drenched, which must have been a combination of my warm room and my tussles as I tried to sleep - it was a relief to take my t-shirt off, turn my pillow over etc.

Being pretty early, I realised some more sleep would definitely still be appreciated, but my legs were hurting a bit again, so at about 7am I elected for some painkillers to help out: fortunately they worked and I managed to get some more decent sleeping in before I got up at about 9:30am. Since then I've succeeded in gettinng yet more repose on the sitting room sofa, and my legs are feeling much better again. I'm sure I still have a huge sleep debt, but I'm digging into it and already feeling the benefits. Yesterday I could barely focus on my eyes; today I feel human!

I'm not sure how human I look, what with my face being a bit moony again, and my gleaming bald pate beaming messages to one of our friendly local planets, but that's ok: I'm still loving the ability to stroke my naked scalp and I'll probably soon lose the extra weight on my face again. Now I'm properly online I might pop up a photo to show how I'm doing... Robyn sent me a lovely photo from John's triathlon, too, so I might put that up, while I know that before my little adventure to ITU I promised to show some wedding photos! All in good time...