OMG, I’m so tired. This is my sleep history so far for March:
The Fitbit tracker skipped some sleep periods but it got most of them. The app said my average this month is a bit under 3.5 hours. Let’s round that up to four hours. This is including driving to work three days a week. No wonder I’m falling asleep each afternoon at work. I’ve been working from home this past week so it’s helping a bit.
I picked up an itchy throat and a slight cough. I think I’ve had that to a certain degree since the surgery. I don’t have a fever and my lungs sound normal per the dialysis nurses. Although I don’t think I have The Virus, the cough and the pressure it puts on my still healing chest makes it very hard to sleep. The night sweat thing is more common too, so even if I do fall asleep, I almost always wake up within the hour covered in sweat.
After the heart surgery, I thought if I endured 12 weeks of recovery, things would return to mostly “normal” as in pre-surgery. This has not been true at all. From the increased peripheral neuropathy to continued chest pain to persistent insomnia, my quality of life is definitely worse. Maybe that’s to be expected since people who had the same surgery told me they were having related health issues years afterwards.
Well, back to lying in bed for another six hours before “getting up” for work at home.
Life with chronic diseases 