DawnOwar's Blog

 I lost track of it i guess. Ive been home since mid September. Which means ive been home three months, even though last month i did a post that said i was home for three months.  I guess thats fine if ive lost track of it because it doesnt really matter  especially because im home. So I've been rebuilding my house. brought in the hard furniture from outside. except the dressers which were broken anyway and I decidedd to give some other furniture a try.  got a light "dresser" with fabric boxes for drawers and a kallax unit .. same concept but i dont have clothes to filll them up yet. I was going to bring in my purses and shoes but i dont go anywhere and the outfits they match are staying out in the garage at least till my skin heals so theres no real point i guess. So i have all these empty places to put clothes that i intend to bring back eventually. But it feels more like home with furniture. I swear i sleep better with a dresser in the bedroom. It feels like i liv...

 For the first time in over a year. That's not to say I'm 100% OK either. I feel like maybe im at 70%.  Since the last update, i got off the gabapentin completely which was not hard or scary as the pages i was googling made it sound. Probably because I was never past a half-dosage and I don't think i even took them for a full month, but the doctor still advised me to taper off. While I was doing that i was reading internet horror stories, and i wasnt feeling well. I think i took a day off of work to sleep, but it wasnt bad or hard and I was clear-headed again in a few days. Honestly I haven't done anything but work and move things and shop for things in a year now so I probably could stand a few more days off.  Except that I have bills to pay and I can't afford days off. I've used up all my paid time off awhile back mostly for appointments with the painters and other workers and helpers to get my house back in some shape so I could go home. So after i was off th...