Tired and happy

[mrissa]

I am the closest thing we have to an able-bodied person right now, and I woke up with two kinds of cramps at 5:00 a.m. Wheeee. markgritter has a cold. timprov is worn out from an awesomely normal day, where we went around doing stuff like normal people. He walked from the car to the restaurant for lunch like a normal person. He dropped a pen and was able to just pick it up like a normal person. We could wander through all of Surdyk's instead of just picking up the Tokay and leaving, because he had enough energy that buying a bottle of Tokay was not his sole activity for the day.

I don't know how to say how neat this renormalizing time has been. Not just the obvious bits of normalcy, but...there were things that we just thought were How Timprov Is, things from at least four years ago if not more. Things we thought as personal physical quirks rather than symptoms. And it turns out they weren't normal at all, because now he doesn't have them. I continue to be amazed. I think some people would get all guilty, "why didn't we catch this before?" etc. I'm just amazed we caught it now. It was such a fluke. It could so easily have gone so many more years. It could so easily have gone for the rest of his life. Most of you who are reading this and know him have never seen the timprov doing this well. Ever. And we still may have to get him medicated for it, but that's such a small thing in exchange for having so much of his health back. Obviously he's not feeling perfect and probably won't be for quite some time. But the difference just keeps knocking us over.

Anyway, I am behind in nearly everything. I am caught up through February 6 on e-mail, so if you have an e-mail from February 6 or before and you're still waiting for an answer, please send it again. I need to do laundry and baking and cleaning and, oh yeah, writing. I even need to sew buttons on both of my winter coats. We're just trying to get by here, with maybe a little extra attention to joy when we have a tiny bit of energy left over, because, after all this time? It's time.

Comments

[ellameena.livejournal.com]

Hallelujah!

[buymeaclue.livejournal.com]

where we went around doing stuff like normal people

Hey, now! Let's not get too carried away. *g*

Yay for normal! Yay for better-than-normal!

[wilfulcait.livejournal.com]

When you have the energy for joy, better to spend that energy on joy than absolutely anything else. So glad to hear that it's joy time.

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

"Take one and pass it back, just like your IQs were normal."

Sorry. Having a "Real Genius" moment yet again. I've been having them during the Olympics coverage, too. When they say Bode, I say, "Up the voltage!"

[kalmn.livejournal.com]

i am positively gleeful in your direction. woo picking up your own pens!

[kythiaranos.livejournal.com]

Positive changes, especially unexpected ones, are so wonderful. I'm glad that you've had some good news this week.

[ckd]

All I can say is yay! Improvement is good! Hearing about improvement is good! Still taking care of yourself is very good!

More joy to you all.

[rosefox]

A few weeks back, I was strolling with sinboy and he was talking animatedly and laughing about something or other, and I realized that what I had once thought was him at absolutely the top of his form was really who he is, and who he can be just about all the time now that he's in better health. I fell in love with him at 50% capacity, and grimly soldiered through times of being at 10% and not daring to hope for much more than maybe 30 or 40% once the worst of the crisis was past. Suddenly here he is at 80, maybe 90%. It's amazing. It's taking a little work to get used to--even his speech patterns are different, because his brain is working faster and better--but boy, is it worth doing.

Congratulations to timprov, and to you and markgritter for getting him and yourselves through to this point. I'm so glad for all of you.

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

I made the opposite mistake with a friend of mine. I thought he was in the trough of a depression. In fact he was at a peak, and the troughs were yet to come.

Oops.

[rosefox]

Ouch! Yes, that's a big oops. I've done that too. No fun.

[talimena.livejournal.com]

Yay!! (Not for the cramps, of course.)