Yawn. I just slept about four hour, which is the longest I’ve slept in several weeks. Maybe it was the dialysis clearance shortfall causing all my immediate health problems these past two weeks.
After dialysis, I stopped by to get lunch from a Hawaiian take out place right across the street from the dialysis clinic. I ate some of the food for lunch and quickly jumped into bed since I haven’t really slept for the past 48 hours. I think I was out in under two minutes. I did tell my mom not to wake me when I nap during the day (unless I asked her to prior to napping) since it may be the only sleep I’m getting all day. During the past few days, as soon as I fall asleep napping, she would wake me for lunch/dinner or something else.
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After dinner, I went to sleep again since I was so tired. I managed to sleep from 12:30 am to about 4:30 am. Doesn’t sound great but much better than zero. Combined with the long nap from yesterday afternoon, I almost feel normal. I was going to go into work today since it’s easier to work on my desktop. I have a 30″ monitor and two 24″ monitors, which are really helpful for coding and debugging. Instead, I managed to connect another monitor to my work laptop at home so I have a 24″ monitor, a 21″ monitor, and the 15″ laptop display for working at home.
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I sneaked an another nap from about 12:30 pm to 2:30 pm but the Fitbit tracker did not pick it up. I feel well rested for the first time in a long time. Even though the dialysis clinic extended my session to four hours when using the fistula needle, if we still run at 250 ml/min, the extra time won’t be enough for adequate clearance so I may start feeling bad again. Not sure what the solution is if we want to develop the fistula.
Life with chronic diseases 