2:33pm July 27, 2014

I slept last night.

Pretty much the whole night, like from 10 pm to 2:20 am and then from maybe 3 am to 6:45 am.  Which is more than I ever sleep normally.  Then I also slept for a couple hours just now.

I feel a lot better for having slept.

I did learn not to wear a tight bra for weeks at a time without ever taking it off.  It actually cut into my skin, like breaking the skin, and now I can’t wear anything on that area until it heals.  I think I have more of a problem than usual with this because of the side-boobs left after my breast reduction, which make any bra fit weird but this was my tightest sports bra, so it really didn’t work out well.  I need to remember to take them off at the end of the day or something.  When I woke up in the middle of the night it was to excruciating pain on my left side and then I found the cut in my skin.  I had no idea it was getting that bad, and I have no idea why I didn’t feel it until it got that bad.  Anyway, no bras of any kind until it heals, and after that only cautiously.

I feel a lot better today than yesterday.  I’m still in a lot of pain everywhere, but it’s somehow more bearable after having slept.  And I’m finding that if I curl up on my left side and prop my neck up just right with pillows, I’m in less pain than I would otherwise be.  I think a lot of my pain is stemming from that neck posture problem where it tilts to the right.  So if I can force it to tilt slightly to the left or be exactly centered, it hurts a lot less.  The only way to do that, though, is to use gravity, because I can’t consciously concentrate hard enough for long enough to keep a good neck posture for even a whole minute.  (My neck also lacks the normal curvature a neck is supposed to have, which probably contributes also, but it’s not the whole story.)

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