Overdid it yesterday... I knew it was coming...

I knew it! I was just doing too much yesterday and I sure am paying for it today by feeling more dead than alive and looking it too! I was planning to go out with my parents in the late morning but had to cancel and stay in bed, fell asleep again until a friend called me at 12:40pm and woke me up! I dare say my jaw nearly fell to the floor when I looked at the time! Spent all day feeling physically drained, been laying on the sofa at parents place most of the day unless helping mum with her laptop or cooking dinner. Could have easily fallen asleep again in the early evening but somehow managed to stay awake. I knew this was coming. It's always like this... I do something fun one day, and feel more dead than alive the next :( Will try to rest as much as possible these coming few days, I have my aqua aerobics on Wednesday, a couple of meetings on Thursday out of which one is at 9am (I don't know where those people have their brain! Calling a chronically ill, insomniac to a meeting at bloody 9am!) and on Friday I'm going to see a hand specialist occupational therapist in the neighbor town to discuss my darn thumb and my wrists. My occupational therapist agreed a while ago that a ring splint for my left thumb MCP joint is probably the best, seeing a regular thumb brace prevents me from using my hand and my thumb is so bendy I can escape the brace, and the plastic bit and rough fabric in my current brace rubs my skin over the MCP joint, which causes discomfort so I don't wear the brace instead... On Saturday, if I'm still alive by then, mum and I might take the train (and I've said I'd never take the train again after an experience in September) to Gothenburg to go to some shops near the central station, but we'll see about that one, I might sleep the weekend away after the hectic WTF of this coming week. But if we do go to Gothenburg on Saturday, at least I will have my soft, hinged knee brace again by then, it's been at the hospital for adjustments to fit my left knee and make it easier to take on and off, since I got the rigid brace for my right knee. And of course, I'll have the darn crutches that loves to ruin my hands and arms... And if people don't mind their step and keep kicking on them in Gothenburg this time, I might just loose it and scream at someone to use their frikken eyes! My crutches are RED (the handles) and have bright neon yellow reflective stickers on them, it's impossible to NOT see them unless you're blind! Might look into getting a pair of smartcrutches soon, even though I'd have to import them from abroad, at least they're more gentle to hands and arms and even okay for EDS'ers to use, more about those can be found on http://www.smartcrutch.com/ Though that being said, it still won't help at all when both legs are on strike... It will just hopefully make me less achy when I walk, and hopefully won't get tired too fast either. Regular forearm crutches like I'm using now are HELL for my hands and wrists! On another note: I don't know how the TV stations around here can survive! There's absolutely NOTHING on TV on a Saturday evening! Time to hit the hay pretty soon... I'm sleepy!