Bad with the Good

I didn't have to work today. Hallelujah!

I got 8 hours of sleep and woke up with my brain feeling clear and active. And as an update on my former sleep problems, they have not been an issue for several weeks. I think it really was a temperature problem, that I need it cool to sleep. I don't think it's related to my [diagnosis here please].

My limbs were not so cooperative. I was clumsy because my muscles were sore, with that lovely "I worked out hardcore yesterday" feeling. Both arms and legs, upper and lower parts of both, bilaterally. Even my fingers are sore!

I sat around for most of the morning before taking a shower and getting ready. I went to the mall, to my favorite makeup store, where I slowly wandered the aisles for an hour. I planned to go to the pharmacy and pick up my gabapentin refill, but unfortunately I was too tired and sore. I just went back home.

I sat around all afternoon and evening. Whenever I get up, like to go to the bathroom, I feel like I have poor control of my limbs. Like I have basic control but not fine control. Hard to explain. I have to use a wide stance to walk down stairs, because my body is leaning forward too much and my legs want to go to fast or something. They plunk instead of stepping.

Oh, I played the piano today, some baroque and classical music. I didn't have the control I usually do, which was frustrating. Sort of like my legs, my fingers wanted to go too fast and uncontrolled sometimes, but other times they were behind where my brain was, like they were stuck to the keys. And my arms got sore from holding them up in position. Yes, frustrating.

So the lows today are with motor control and soreness.

The highs are with:
-Cognition: still having memory issues, but not as bad as it gets some days
-Sensory: very little pins and needles, no hypersensitivity
-Strength: although I was sore, etc., I don't think my muscles were terribly weak. I often have to put the car in park at red lights, because I can't maintain pressure on the brakes that long (I know, for a whole minute). Today I didn't have to do that. And it wasn't as hard as usual to open the sliding door to the deck.