I woke up feeling groggy after 10 hours of sleep. If you ask me how I feel today, I would still say exhausted, sore and puffy. My right arm is almost restored to it's normal size. My back, neck and head ache like mad. I took a Tylenol around 9 this morning, but it didn't really help. I'm a little apprehensive, but I might take Vicodin if the headache gets worse or if I can't take it anymore. Vicodin is a narcotic though and I don't want to fall asleep. It's best if I get my sleeping schedule back to normal. My heart was beating a little heavily this morning too. It might be because my blood volume hasn't returned to normal yet. I noticed yesterday that my diastole number is lower than what is normal while my systole number is ok when the nurses took my blood pressure.
I still feel so horrible about not being able to volunteer at LLH this week. Even though I was only there for one day I felt like I made a real connection with a few of the patients. Especially the guy that I talked to for two hours. My supervisor said he was never pleased to talk to someone that long other than family or friends. He even made me get up to get me some of his photo albums so he could show me more of his life. I promised that I would visit him whenever I was working in the hospital even if it wasn't on his unit. I can't help but wonder if he feels like I've abandoned him.
I still feel so horrible about not being able to volunteer at LLH this week. Even though I was only there for one day I felt like I made a real connection with a few of the patients. Especially the guy that I talked to for two hours. My supervisor said he was never pleased to talk to someone that long other than family or friends. He even made me get up to get me some of his photo albums so he could show me more of his life. I promised that I would visit him whenever I was working in the hospital even if it wasn't on his unit. I can't help but wonder if he feels like I've abandoned him.
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