Yea...

It's 6:18 in the morning.

I have officially been awake for over 24 hours now. It's strange how my back and leg pain works. It seems to come and go a lot, with no relevance to my drugs. I take Motrin and Neurontin every 8 hours, as directed. I also take Darvocet or Vicodin as needed. But it doesn't seem to matter. I can take a Vicodin and have it kill the pain completely, or not at all.

The pain seems to be worse at night. I don't know if it's something I do or just my body being worn out and needing rest. But even that's not a fixed thing. Last night I slept like a log. I passed out at 10:30 when Jen left for work and didn't wake up until 6:00. Yet tonight I can't sleep at all, every time I try to drift off my legs act up and the pain get bad again.

It's been over 24 hours and I'm still awake, I am exhausted. I can feel the headache building behind my eyes. Yet sleep eludes me. I have managed to watch 3 Die Hard movies in the course of this night.

I just wish I could find sleep, or in lieu of that some sort of relief from pain.