Credits: Stop The World by Seatrout Scraps
Journaling:
I need a day off. No, I need a morning off. Maybe what I mean is a need a night ON. I need to sleep. My leg trauma has been bad off and on and right now it’s been about a week of bad. I know if I try to just stay downstairs and sleep in the wheelchair the edema gets bad, bad enough to get into my thighs. In December I was in emergency because of it. I did promise myself that I’d take my water pills every day and sleep in bed no matter what after the subtle chewing put the doctor gave me. She also wanted me to have someplace I could transfer to so I had options to sitting in the chair all day. She wanted me to have a lift chair recliner that goes back into the position that puts your feet above your heart for circulation and a chair I can use when I’m home alone.
Insurance doesn’t cover any part of the $1500 chair so I had to wait until we could afford it. Now the chair has finally been ordered. But it’s still going to be about a week before it’s here. I know from trying it out at the medical supply office that it felt so good and I could have fallen asleep then and there. I’ll still sleep in bed, but on nights that my legs are just too tired to make the last step and movement necessary to get upstairs or when spasms or cramping wake me after only a few hours, the chair will be heaven and I can’t wait. I just want a full night’s sleep.
