Done yesterday (20110530 Mo)

[mdlbear]

0530 Mo
  * up 8:05; drugs, nose, bath, light; packing
  : for the second time the stupid charger didn't make an adequate
    connection :P  Fortunately barnard only takes about 1:30 to charge
  @ dire wolf tanuki 
  ~ "make push" should check status to see whether a commit is really needed
    before it goes ahead and updates undone.log.
    "git status -a" exits with non-zero status if anything to commit
    -> not needed; undone.log depends on to.do; then commit -a 
  * 15min: to.do maintenance
  * buffet breakfast in the hotel.  The food's better at home
  % overexerted on the suitcases; some chest and arm pain which I'm assuming
    is surface muscles and maybe stomach gas.  Took tums and aspirin
  % appear to have pulled something in my left arm.  Ouch.
  @ 3 Banks Service Majority Of Spam-Driven Sales via hawklady
  * 15min:  to.do maintenance.  Moved the Today section up after Recurring.
  & took methocarbamol; helps a little but the left arm is still very sore.
    pretty much totally wiped.  
  ! calm but very tired.  Not sure tired counts as a mood, but it seems to
    bleed over somehow.  Drained.
  * eggs and bacon for dinner.  "English muffin" with lemon marmalade
  * I'm now on my third glass of water.  Dehydrated?  Just a bit?
  * refill 3 prescriptions (doxazosin, aggrenox, lisinopril/HCTZ)
  * 7:37 laundry done.  
  & On my second hot shoulder pad for the day
  & N suggested ice, which seemed to help a lot
  : printers seem to show up as offline when actually just out of paper :P
  % 9:20 -getting- sleepy.  dozed 15min or so
  * 10pm 2 naproxen tablets
  * 10:30 bed.  Splat.

A pretty typical end-of-con day; lots of goodbyes including some to people I never even got to say hello to. And there was never enough time for conversation.

Then I managed to pull a muscle in my left arm near the shoulder, hefting suitcases. OWWW. It took a long time for the pain to localize; it started out in the whole upper body, leading me to worry about possible heart trouble. I spent the evening being totally wiped out. Naomi suggested putting ice on it, which helped but was very awkward.

It would have been a pretty good day if it hadn't been for the injury. Pain appears to be exhausting mentally as well as physically; the effects seem to be similar to the sensory overload caused by the noise. Which makes, um, sense, since pain and hearing are both senses. Bears can be a little slow on the uptake sometimes, though I am learning.

A couple of links.

Comments

[judifilksign.livejournal.com]

You are absolutely right about pain being mentally exhausting. There are many studies of workers recovering from injuries at desk jobs who are not as productive during their recoveries, even though they are not doing anything physical or aggravating to their injuries.

Noise and pain are also well-documented triggers for "shell shock" in soldiers, and post-traumatic stress disorders.

[mdlbear]

I'd known about pain causing fatigue, but noise and other forms of overload were a new one on me.

[pocketnaomi.livejournal.com]

Very, very glad it was nothing worse than a pulled muscle, and glad I could help at least a teensy bit by recommending ice instead of heat, remembered from my own athletic-injury days. If it's torn, it gets heat and if it's pulled, it gets ice. And the only way to tell the difference is that pulls take longer to localize. ;)

[mdlbear]

"pulls take longer to localize"

I'll have to remember that. This one also seems to have a long tail where it spreads out again. That, or I injured lots of different muscles and they're noticeable now that the shoulder pain has diminished a little.

[chaoswolf]

You're really not supposed to hurt yourself.

I miss you, Dad.

[mdlbear]

I miss you, too.