I am down to 32.5 mgs of prednisone and it is interesting to see how my body is reacting. I have on and off low grade cramping in the lower right abdominal side. I have some urge to go but then there is nothing. I have much less blood and am tolorating more food but still have nausea. I am up over 100 mgs of azathioprine. Perhaps the increase of this is helping alleviate symptoms. I am not sure. It is nice to have a holiday and not feel like I am missing out being sick or whatever. I worked some hours each day this week and it was so great to feel useful.
I worked the paper’s crossword today. Really easy with lots of independence day hints. Last nite was a wierd sleeping night. At 3 am or so, point, some bozo went round and round the block setting off single fire crackers, almost sounded like a pop-gun of some sort. Pretty soon, since our windows are open, there was thin haze of fire smoke in the air. It was somewhat surreal being in the middle of night and the air was warm. In the paper that evening police requested we NOT call 911 as their hands are full of more pressing things then idiots breaking the law blowing off fire crackers. Its not terribly warm this 4th of July so perhaps things will not get too out of hand this evening.
In the meantime I am slept last night with no sleep inducing pill. However, I didn’t sleep deep, so when I woke up at my customary 5:30 am to take my prednisone I took 1.5 mgs of melatonin and that put me back into a nice calm deep sleep and I awoke at 9:00am.
I found a good pdf link to info about the Proctolectomy and Restorative Proctolectomy surgery at Crohn’s & Colit.
