Early mornings

I was awake at 05:30 again this morning. Not because I wanted to wake up so early - I don't need to any more. Rather, because the dogs wanted to be up. As far as they're concerned, nothing has changed; breakfast time is 05:30, and they really object if I'm not organising the contents of their bowls by then!

Yesterday, I was quite worried about how tired I was by 16:00. I could hardly keep my eyes open. And then I realised that I hadn't stopped rushing about since the dogs got me up, so the exhaustion was probably not due to side-effects as I feared, but more to "greedy dog syndrome".

Meanwhile, my side effects may be improving. I don't want to tempt fate, but the horrible, painful cystitis I've been having for the last two weeks feels slightly less horrible and slightly less painful. The "looseness" seems to be settling down (though this may be due to the large dose of loperamide I took a couple of days ago). The only thing that hasn't improved as yet is the abdominal pain, although that doesn't seem to be happening quite so often.

So, on the whole, things are beginning to look a bit better, even though I'm worn out by energetic dogs insisting I get up before dawn. They go straight back to sleep once they've been fed. I, on the other hand, just keep going.