Am I finally breaking through....?

Today was an interesting day. And a GOOD day. The real test comes in tonight but so far, so good.

Woke up, my legs having done their normal morning aches and pins and needles, quickly rectified by a few moments elevating and cool air...and it seems that the excruciating pain from the past week has finally started to abate!

There wasn't constant lances of pain, certainly not to the point of constantly distracting me from whatever I was doing for 30+ minutes at a time. Sure, the odd spike, the odd dull ache....but not the agony I have dealt with the past week.

I even did the ultimate, reluctant test....I had to go to the bathroom. So I waddled my way there to do my business. Waddling there's not fun but was never really the problem. The problem was that, on the way back pain would lance through both legs at an excruciating level, turning a mere 5 minutes of movement into 30+ minutes of forced immobility as I tried desperately to rest and elevate the legs in agony. I hated it. It's part of the reason I implemented a No Moving Rest and Recovery for the past few days - since Thursday.

However, it seems that the way back only ONE leg was playing up (the bothersome left leg where the sore is across the back of the calf, just above the ankle :( so super painful for everything) and softly lanced with pain that was quickly resolved within a couple of minutes. The other leg was achey and sore, but didn't send me into agony as it had been doing the past few days.

What? What's going on?

Could it be the antibiotics FINALLY having an impact, showing up like the Rohirrim to charge down the infection? I hope so. I honestly do. I'm waiting to see how rest of the weekend goes really.

But if the movement isn't causing almost instant lancing pain within minutes, then I may be through the roughest patch prior to receiving treatment - or at least the painkillers are getting to do what they're supposed to do rather than be rendered moot due to an infection!

Right now the legs are sitting at a sort of dull ache/numbness where they do ache and are a bit sore, but I keep some movement going. They've gone from basically being sticks with Wasp Patches strapped onto them to being a bit heavy.

Unfortunately I still had to cancel the 40k Narrative event planned for the 29th. Simply put I was unlikely to make it into town to print things off in time and didn't want to risk not being fully pain free. It's just not fair on my opponent to have to deal with mean stopping for 10 minutes or so to try and soothe my legs or getting distracted by pain. In a large team game? Other folk can pick the slack up and I can crash on a couch. But not for 1v1 games like that weekend.

However, I'm feeling a LOT better.

The real test is still to come however - how it goes tonight. So far it's not that bad. It's been twinges of pain, but not constant distraction levels of pain that mean I cannot focus on anything and simply grip my chair's arm, whimpering and praying it to end or me to pass out.

Tomorrow may be a test as well. I have to change the padding on one leg - so we'll see how horrible that goes. (I hate it. It always upsets me and gets more difficult each time) But I may also be at the state where I may want to risk a trip across the road to one of the stores....or probably not.

I'm still trying to minimise movement and get as much rest as I can, til the pain is truly manageable. One good day does not mean we're through it...I have to see how the night goes, and then the following day. It's only sensible to make sure we're 100% clear. Thankfully the refunded ticket from the 40k event will cover taxi fare for the trip I have to take in to town on Tuesday - both going in and coming back out - for the dressing clinic (where they basically just check the wounds to make sure they're maintaining status quo or improving a bit) and then to pick up new pairs of glasses. Then next Wednesday is the Pain Review with my GP where I get to explain the last week and see what they want to do - I don't think the Zomorph had a fair shot due to the infections flaring up right when I started it so it might need a slightly higher dosage....but we'll see.

But yeah, all in all, today was a significantly improved day. Hopefully it can only get better as the antibiotics kick in more. Probably do one more 'home order' of food for the day or to top up...and with luck maybe by Monday I can resume being somewhat human again....still in pain, still needing to heal these legs but only a few more days til we can start that proper and in theory with enough mobility to clean stuff up and try to make the couch-bed nest a thing.

Cheers for reading folks. Hope your days went just as well!