Yup, only water for 10 days. No tea, no fizzy pop, no juice, no wine, just water.
Aghhhh, piece of cake....... I thought :/
So I expected it to be difficult mentally, like talking myself out of a glass of wine on an evening, or when out for a meal, or breaking the habit of having two brews when I get up on a morning. What I didn't prepare for was the pysical beating it would take on my body.
Day 1:
I felt grumpy. In fact my first words were expletives as I walked down the stairs and Hubster offered me a glass of water. I was ready, right then, to fail. But I had hot water and grumped a little more.
In fact, I grumped all day. I grumped at the poor nurse doing my well-women check up, I grumped at my daughter (who, incidentally, grumped back at me as we are doing it together), I grumped at Hubster then I went into work and grumped at my colleagues too, I even grumped on Facebook to anyone who would listen.
Day 2:
I was dying. I had to get up to go and do a radio interview, I felt super grumpy, but plastered a smile and performed well (I think), but once home my head was splitting with the most excruciating pain. I couldn't move my head a millimetre without it hurting. I had loads to do - patterns to write, blogs to write, parcels of beads to pack, a blanket to finish and a birthday cake to make. I couldn't do anything, so I went to bed to try and sleep it off.
I got up at 3.00pm, hurriedly iced the cake that I had luckily baked in the morning, had a quick wash and went to work to do the back-shift. I got through that shift on two pro plus tablets (caffeine), two paracetamol and 2 ibuprofen.
It took the edge off it enough for me to work, but I was foggy, forgetful and having total blanks to performing tasks that I do all the time.
Day 3:
Didn't sleep well at all, not content with giving me a sleepless night, my brain decided to give me hallucinatory dreams in the rare times that I was asleep. Thanks for that brain, most useful. So I woke disoriented, foggier than yesterday and very tired. But no headache! Whoop!
The headache made it's appearance about 2.00pm, so at least I got the morning off.
Not feeling quite so bad today all-in-all. I'm trying not to take any painkillers today as there doesn't seem a lot of point in giving up a drug (caffeine) to fill the space with other drugs, but they are not locked away just yet.
Only 7 days to go......
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