Happy New Year!
The pain is gone!
I’m free until January 22nd!
I had wanted so badly to go to a club last night, and I’d woken up feeling good. But by late morning, after a walk just two blocks away to the tea house for a scone, the pain kicked in again before I could walk back home. I took a Tylenol 3 and felt that it wasn’t going to do much good at the half hour point, when the bleeding ramped up again, and so I took another. I’m glad I did. I was able to drool through the worst of it.
The pain lasted through the evening, so I made a last minute decision to stay home. Determined to at least LOOK good on NYE, I did my makeup and hair. ;)
My man really wanted to go out for sushi last night, but I was in pain, so I waited it out til I had a lull in the pain, then we went to dinner around 7:30pm and I was armed with my drugs in case. We walked there - it was about three blocks, and to my surprise, the pelvic pain wasn’t bad at all!
We disappointed some friends who had wanted to come over on NYE cuz I’d told them I was going to be at the club, and then ended up having to stay home anyway due to the pain. So they had made other plans but y’know people, at least you MADE OTHER PLANS, wtf, leave your guilting outta this, sheesh.
We did have two friends who were happy that we stayed home cuz they wanted to avoid trekking into the city (massive traffic/public transit nightmare going into SF on holidays and special event days, not to mention all the drunken assholes - we call it “amateur night”).
So our two friends came over and we played card games and watched a comedy about zombies called Fido (I want to own that movie, it’s hilarious! If you liked Shaun of the Dead, you’ll like Fido).
About a quarter to midnight, some rambunctious people started screaming and letting off fireworks outside, so we stopped the movie and went outside to inform them of the time. ;)
At midnight, we cracked open glowstick bracelets/necklaces and got silly with them, and also lit sparklers. I was SO excited cuz I was no longer in pain! I had all this energy, so I convinced everyone to walk down to the beach - it’s a half a mile walk through the neighborhood, across a main road, through the shopping center, across the shoreline road and there you are. To our surprise, there were fireworks going off in San Francisco, and it was a very clear night, so we got a spectacular view! We caught the tail end of the fireworks, and pledged to go to the navy base next year to get a good view of the city to see the fireworks. Hopefully there’ll be no fog next year and it will be as clear again as it was last night!
My friend posted silly pictures of us on his flickr site. My man is the tough guy in the leather jacket and I’m the one with glowsticks as antennae, as well as the glow stick shoved through my ear - yes, my earring hole IS that big to fit a glowstick through.
So yes, lotsa fun and I’m super happy to be pain free for the next 21 days til the bastard comes ’round again! I spent my renewed energy today to finish cleaning house and run errands, and my man and I had a meeting over wedding venues. I need to get back on my exercise routine for this month, too.
In 2008, may I continue to find happiness and excitement to enjoy my pain-free days. I spent too many years bitter on my good days because I can’t be pain free all the time, and it just lends towards further misery. May I be strong and positive and happy and silly in my pain-free moments, hours or days when the pain is absent!