{{Debet}}

Urgh. Up much too late -- Matilda has commandeered my side of the bed, and is just lying there being a hot-blooded little spundle of body heat of furnace-like degree. So I'm out here trying to get myself chilled enough that it'll be a sweet sleepy relief to go back to bed and curl up with my own little Jack-Jack.

eta: And I totally was also secretly hoping to find news of Jess and Fone and the wee one. She must be in the middle of active pushing right about now.

The last update from Jess at Twitter reads:

I CAN HAZ EPIDURAL! W00T!

Twitter reports that was posted about 3 hours ago.

Oh, excellent!

Good morning, everyone. I did not call in cranky to work yesterday as I had pondered doing. I'm even more tempted to do so today.

If the epidural was 4 hours ago, any estimates from the knowledgeable? I thought I'd come in and find news too.

I came hoping for news too! I dreamed in my nap that they named the baby William Weed Alter. (William "Speed" Weed was a high school classmate.)

As for estimating arrival from time of epidural, there's no way to do so.

(((Debet))) I hope you find a wonderful job soon.

I'm hoping that the baby has arrived but they've been too busy to post.

Someone was just beeping there horn for ten minutes outside my window. Way too early for that.

Oh DebetEsse! How frustrating and scary and all that. I hope you were able to get some sleep and can look at the situation more clearly today and decide what your next steps are. {{{Hugs}}}

Come on, Baby Alter! We all want to see you!

Go, Jess, go! Baby~ma!

Job~ma to Debet.

Oh, Debet, that sucks. I hope you easily find a much better job.

I started the prednisone today, and discovered that one of the side effects is difficulty sleeping, so here I am, exhausted and yet wide awake. I would share the codeine with AmyLiz, but I can't. Nope. Must keep it all for myself. Cause I'm selfish that way.

I'm starting to feel like I'm never going to get better. My rant about this and the crappy doctor and drug interactions listed on websites has turned out longer than expected, so I'm white fonting it. It's not gross, is just too. damn. long. Freaked myself out a bit, because I started to take some melatonin to sleep, then saw that it shouldn't be taken with prednisone, so took the sublingual pill out, then started spazzing about what the interaction might be, so got online to check the interweb. Sounds like the teeny-tiny amount of melatonin I had was probably no big deal, but in discovering that, I saw the big lists of things I should have discussed with my doctor, which he never mentioned (anyone know what the issue is with grapefruit and prednisone?), and big lists of side effects that apparently warrant contacting your doctor right away, a fair amount of which I had before I started on it. Ok, I was planning on contacting my own doctor anyway, so I suppose that doesn't really matter. But while my doctor is wonderful, her office is of teh suck, and I'm not really sure how to put the problem so that I get an appointment with my doctor sometime this year while not getting an appointment with the unhelpful PA. And then I feel horrid complaining, because I have friends with much more severe health issues, and here I am complaining about this.

One question: The stuff I read seemed to say that the prednisone should be taken with food at specific times, but what I have says to take it before food and at bedtime. But since I've been feeling crummy, I don't have a specific schedule. So should I take it at specific times, and have some food then? Or should I take it before meals, regardless of when they are?