No More Bath Time

Just wanted to share a quick update.  It has been 10 days since I fainted and got a concussion in the process.  I am doing so much better now and I am very thankful for it.  The first 5-6 days seriously sucked.  I felt so tired, and my head was almost constantly hurting.   Even worse than that though was how confused and just foggy my head would feel while doing more than one thing at a time.  God forbid someone try talking to me while I was cooking, or reading, or anything….even though I could hear their words it was like I couldn't make sense of them.   I was some how unable to process the meaning and it would just make my head hurt worse.  One time I was cooking and then Evelyn handed me a paper to read about a project she had to do and even though I read it twice I just couldn't understand what the hell it was trying to say...then just trying to read it more made me head hurt even worse, and I just had to give it to James for him to look at it.   So frustrating.  It is truly the strangest feeling.  

But I am doing much better now….I still get slight headaches here and there but nothing compared to that first week...I would say I am 95% better.  I am planning on exercising today with my neighbor, I will mostly be riding my bike which I have made into a stationary bike for the winter.  So that shouldn't be too hard on me.  I will also be heading into the library today where I volunteer and although I won’t be staying too long I think my head can handle some pricing of books in the store and re-stocking of the shelves.

There was more thing I wanted to mention in this blog before I finish up.  I think I should be done taking baths...like forever….which probably means I also shouldn't use a hot tub ever again as well.  You see usually when I take a nice hot bath (since my weight loss surgery) my body starts to feel way overheated and I get lightheaded about 10 minutes into it.  Which sucks because then I feel like I am wasting water.  Last night I took a bath and despite bringing a glass of ice cold water with me that I could drink while in the bath I STILL got that same feeling and had to get out and lay on the bed until I was cooled off.  I could tell that if I had waited any longer to get out of that bath, I would have fainted again.  So….I have decided that this is just not worth it.  I can not risk fainting while in the bath or while getting out of it so I am thinking that I will not be taking any more of them and I probably should never get in a hot tub again either just to be safe.  Obviously my body can no longer handle heat like it used to and I really can’t risk fainting just so I can relax in a bath for 30 minutes.  This is of course a bit sad….because I seriously do love taking a nice bubble bath.  lol   But oh well….I also really don’t like feeling so light headed that I might faint...the answer is clear.