Blog, Beads and Blood
If you’re reading my blog today you may notice the color changes, I am learning a little bit about html and customizing my blog page. I probably spent WAY TOO MUCH TIME changing the colors back and forth until I found ones I liked, and I still need to find a header image I like, and figure out how to put that in.
Also last 2 days I’ve been organizing my beads and other jewelry supplies. My sister Amber gave me a whole MESS of beads she didn’t want anymore. I had to organize and sort through them for ones I thought were decent quality to use. I figure if I’m making “nice” jewelry to sell I don’t want to use any of those big, cheesy, children’s craft beads. I use some plastic but most the beads I use are glass, ceramic, stone, metal and fimo.
Yesterday I repaired a pair of necklaces for my niece Courtney and today I made a few new necklaces, though one I am going to have to re-string because Aaron, my 2 & 1/2 year old nephew became fascinated with the shiny beads, ran of with it and pulled it apart. I wasn’t upset by that at all, because just before he broke it I made the comment that the wire on that particular necklace was too weak. So all good, I don’t want to be making crappy quality stuff. He can be my quality control tester.
Tomorrow I should take pictures of all the stuff I have already made and set up a photo gallery and figure out pricing.
My prednisone side effects:
Today was a chilly, rainy day but amusing enough I was hot. The prednisone is giving me hot flashes. While everyone around me is complaining of being cold I’m in short sleeves, with a flushed face, fanning myself. 
The headaches/migraines are still a daily occurrence. Almost like withdrawal. If I don’t take the prednisone exactly every 4 hours a headache starts and most often won’t go away. It was also giving me BAD back pain for 1st few days but at least that seems to be going away now, the pain is not lasting for hours and more of a nagging annoyance now than the rolling around on the bed trying not to cry pain.
It has been messing with my ability to sleep too. I have a hard time actually falling to sleep and it makes me wake up and pee every 3-4 hours. It makes me awfully thirsty and I’ve had bad dry mouth, dry skin and chapped lips. So during the day I am trying to stay hydrated and I have to pee much, much more frequently. It’s bad when I have to worry about urinating on myself if I’m too far from a bathroom.
I really DO NOT like how ravenous it makes me feel. I will eat a sensible meal and know I should and used to feel full. Now I feel like it makes me have an uncontrollable appetite, I’m hungry all day long. I can’t allow myself to gain anymore weight, I am obese as is. I think I am more concerned with getting fatter than dieing. Well logically (to me) getting fatter will compromise my health even more, so (more) fat = shorter life span/death.
In last 7 months (since the appendectomy and bleed out) I have gained back all the weight that took me 2 years to lose. It’s just so frustrating every time I seem to take one step forward with improving my body and health I get knocked back 10 steps. Oh, I wonder, did they check my platelets from all those blood draws they took after I bled out from my appendectomy surgery? Did I have the beginning phase of ITP 7 months ago? That would explain why I had such a terrible bleed out and why my recovery was so excruciatingly slow.
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