Struggled to stay awake until 11:00 last night so I could take my next dose of oxy and then sleep for a few hours.  Briefly opened eyes to turn off alarm (for the kids) at 7:00, then woke up at 7:30.  Slept for 8 ½ hours!  It was awesome. 

Then I tried to stand up.  Sleeping for 8 ½ hours also meant that I had no pain killers left in my system.  So when I swung my legs over the side of the bed and hoisted myself up onto my crutches, blood and pain flooded into my right leg.  I wasn’t aware that it could still hurt that much.  Might be worth going back to the 4:30am wake up for an oxy to avoid that.  

Gulped and oxy and a tylenol, then crutched to the bathroom, to find the door shut because Bob was in it.  Seemed too hard to go back to bed before peeing, so he opened the door a minute later to find me leaning on the wall, eyes closed, attempting to breathe while I waited for the drugs to kick in.  

Not sure if I over did it yesterday, or it’s a lingering effect of lack of drugs last night, but it’s been more painful today than the couple of days before Christmas.