Sarah was out of school for three days and we decided to "bomb" the house. We packed up, took the cat to my sister's and headed out to McDonald's for a couple of hours with fumigators running inside and under the house. We had to be out for 4 hours.
After brunch, we headed to the library and I wrote for about an hour and a half. Once our time was up, we headed home. Mike had already gone in and cleared the house, opening windows and turning on fans to flush the air. So, I didn't have to do much.
We attempted to go back to the library on Monday but unfortunately, Columbus closed them. Boo, we were sorely disappointed.
Today is Sunday the 14th, seven days after I started this post! Things kind of went squirrely after this. Sarah went back to school on Wednesday and had to miss Thursday. She was really sick Wednesday night from the increased dose of her medicine. She takes and the ADD medicine and the higher dose has just made her too sick to take. So, they've reduced it back to the previous dose and we watch.
On Friday, she was back at school but if you recall I've been fighting severe fatigue so I slept a lot that day. The weather turned on all of us, with the Gulf Coast getting a hurricane. All my family lives in the area affected by hurricane Michael. Virtually my whole family lives in the coastal regions. I have family in Mobile, Alabama, inland about 2 hrs on the Alabama/Florida line near Dothan, in the Panhandle, and even in Georgia, near Atlanta. I have family in South Carolina, too. So, I watched the reports carefully and tried to touch base with those in the highest risk areas. Most of those evacuated. My brother-in-law had one death from the storm.
Meanwhile, it was raining in my town in S. Indiana. We needed the rain but it brought cooler air. For about two days I managed to keep the heat off but the house got too cool for us to handle so we turned it on. It is still a bit cooler than I like but we're dressing in warmer clothes and sandals are stored. I'm wearing socks a lot. Mike got ill this week and I've been trying to help him. Needless to say, I was kind of worn out.
As of today, Sunday the 14th, I'm feeling amazingly better. For a month, at least, I've had problems with severe fatigue and spent more time sleeping than anything else. I have been unable to do anything because the simplest task exhausted me. My brain simply felt as if it was stuffed with cotton and trying to purchase a car in that condition is not wise. I think I got a good car but I noticed things that I should have noticed before I purchased it. I could have negotiated I think. Hindsight is worthless.
Friday I had a brainwave that must have broken through the fog. I suddenly realized that some time ago, maybe last year, I had experienced this "I want to die" fatigue and brain fog. Yes, that is exactly how you feel, by the way. I feel like I am going to die if I don't lie down and sleep. By Friday I was having dizzy spells, too. I've been having muscle pain, joint pain, shooting pains in my legs, severe fatigue, problems with my vision, and inability to focus or process things. Friday I remembered that when I had many of these symptoms before, I had been off my D for 2 months.
About three months ago, my D went too high as a result of taking Vitamine K with the D3. K helps the body absorb D. And it did. I went over 130. That's bad. I broke out in a rash, a symptom of too much D. They told me to stop taking it. I was feeling really good except for the rash but I stopped it. I haven't gone back on it. I've asked to be check again last month because I was feeling bad and I told my RA doctor I thought I needed to be checked again. She made no comment and didn't order the test. I've been off D & K the whole time. K will also thin your blood so I don't want to take it all the time.
By this Friday, things were getting critical. I knew I was in trouble when the dizziness started. Something was wrong. I took two 5000 mg of D. That is what I was taking regularly for over 10 yrs before I took the K. When I woke up Saturday morning it was evident I was better. I wasn't tired when I woke up. I didn't get sleepy all day. I wasn't dizzy. I had no visual problems, no pain except some shoulder pain I've been having problems with. I took 2 more 5000 mg Saturday. Today, I'm fine. Not sleepy other than getting a bit drowsy in church. My thinking feels clearer and I feel ... better, less stressed.
I think I've validated my intuition about my sensitivity to low D levels. I have no way to tell how low they got now because no one checked. I called my primary care doctor on Friday and told them what was happening and that I was concerned and felt I needed to be checked again. He was out but they'll tell him on Monday. Too late. I could have waited but I have to admit to being frightened. The symptoms were getting worse with each passing day. Today, all of those symptoms seem to be gone.
You have to listen to your body and you have to pay attention to symptoms. I should start journaling these things so I can keep track but it is one more thing to keep up with and honestly, I just don't want to bother. No one will listen to me anyway.
I hope that now I can get some real writing done. For now, I'm going to take my Sunday afternoon nap. Sunday is a day of rest and I always say we all need naps on that day because God intends to make us rest.
That's my story.
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