Night of the living dead

I did not have a good night last night: straps, wires, and tubes are not conducive to sleep. Last night was my night for the sleep apnea test; they give you a gadget to wear that straps on and includes two strain-gauge bands, a tube going up to your nose, and an oxymetry sensor that clips onto a finger. They really prefer 5 hours worth of sensing; they'll be lucky if they got four. I think I finally got to sleep around 2:30, after taking a flexeril at 2:00. After trying the couch -- the flower_cat was wakeful for different reasons.

Tried adding niacin and B12 supplements to my daily pill salad. The recent tests for those were in the normal range, but I figure it's worth seeing whether they help the neuropathy and triglycerides anyway. I'd forgotten about the facial flushing effect from niacin -- impressive.

Walkies

(Cross-posted to healthy_fen and mdlbear.)

Yesterday's walk was just half an hour or so down to the pond and back; I'd spent the entire morning getting my sleep study set up and running other errands, and wanted to catch up on email and trip reports.

Today was an actual exercise walk, the first in nearly a week: down to the pond via the hill in back, 2.5 times around, and back. This gets in a reasonable amount of exercise with a minimum of downhill and tilted sections that might tend to damage my left ankle. As it is, it was hurting by the time I got back, but no shin splints. So, yay!

Stats: time: 53:22; avg: 119; max: 146.